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"...Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Richard Edson, Glenn Plummer. Strange days, indeed. It's 1999, the..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

How Fantastic Fest Is Shaping the Genre Film Scene

Fifteen years in and still fantastic

"...to those overlooked by the cinematic mainstream, like director Richard Stanley. A cyberpunk icon for Hardware and an African..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hidden Room Theatre Is Working With a Presidential Assassin

Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, we reckon you’ll really enjoy the show

"...what’s actually happening is a period-specific presentation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, based on Booth’s promptbook from the 1860s, no..."

June 12, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Saturday Picks and Sleepers

Saturday night SXSW blurbs

"...outside crackly old VHS footage from mid-Nineties basement gigs. Richard Whittaker Guantanamo Baywatch..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Page Two

When Gravity Fails: Notes on the influence of Ed Lowry, 'Crazy Mama,' and not sweating the small stuff

"...on Speedway I rented for about $85 a month. Richard Dorsett, then working at Inner Sanctum, had been working..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

On love, culture, renewal, timelessness, and SXSW

"...Anne Lewis, documentary filmmaker), New York Times writer Elvis Mitchell, Jonathan Demme, and me talking film. A couple of..."

March 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...Wow, Richard R. Runde! Such flowery prose in defense of our..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

It Takes Two

Asking local musical couples what it's like to do everything together

"...language, and the band will be 'Hey? What the hell?'" laughs Erickson. "Sometimes we just forget that there is..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Boston Strangler, Mr. Majestyk

"...providing videos, laser discs, and DVDs.)The Boston Strangler D: Richard Fleischer (1968); with Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis, George Kennedy,..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...I tabulated the votes for the organization.) On the what-the-hell-is-this end is the Millennial Musical, a collaboration by myself..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Real Austin Stories

Austin's Exploding Documentary Scene

"...Clockwise from left: Ellen Spiro, Kyle Henry, Richard Lewis, Don Howard, Ramona Diaz, Hector Galán, and Paul..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better and a Hell of a Lot Louder) Stacey Abrams (Rogue Justice) Agatha..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Christmas Bloody Christmas

Joe Begos delivers more than coal in this Santasploitation gorefest

"...head to Tori’s house. Things go from naughty to hella naughty as all hell breaks loose when Tori happens..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The famous anti-protestor show trial recounted

"...That's the old game that U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell (Doman) pulled when he decided to stitch together a..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Meg

This giant shark tale simply lacks bite

"...howlingly awful as Jaws 3-D or Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! but for the $150 million USD and however..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op

All of the Dashiel Hammett PI's cases in one energetic volume

"...of The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett, and The Annotated Big..."

July 27, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

DVDanger: 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown

Can the WWE make an action star out of Dean Ambrose?

"...the squeaky clean hero everyone expects. That's when all hell suddenly breaks lose, as Burke seals the building, gets..."

Dec. 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tuesday SXSW 2015 Showcases

"...title of nerdcore's big four: genre pioneer MC Frontalot (hell, he invented the word); Adam Warrock's running buddy Mikal..."

March 13, 2015 Music Feature

Marc Savlov's Top 10 List

"...1) Boyhood Richard Linklater's soulful, cinematic masterwork is utterly sui generis, and..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Friday Picks & Sleepers

TGIFriday of SXSW, blurb by blurb

"...7:30pm, St. David's Bethell Hall Now that the new school of solo guitar..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Housecore Horror to Open the 'The Profane Exhibit'

Festival to debut extreme horror anthology

"...Housecore co-founder Corey Mitchell called the picture "the most extreme horror film to..."

May 16, 2013 Screens Post

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...terror, the surreal and psychedelic Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell. Odds are, if you've heard of any of these..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Across The Universe

Housing advocate Troxell provides chapter and verse on living wage

"...the script. Leading the Yellow Brick Roadies was one Richard Troxell, founder of House the Homeless. And unfortunately, with..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Austin at Very High Speed

The who, what, where, when, and why of Formula One racing

"...Austin as a major international sporting center. As Tavo Hellmund, the man behind the successful bid, puts it: "There..."

July 9, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Orphanage

Although Guillermo Del Toro is the producer, this new Spanish horror film is derivative and not on par with Del Toro's spooky childhood stories.

"...deuce of Dario Argento gialli. (Okay, The Orphanage trumps Richard Donner's hysterical Omen, fair enough, but it also rips..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...but with Lee Alexander (bass), Jim Campilongo (electric guitar), Richard Julian (guitar, vocals), and Dan Rieser (drums), the New..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Scrambling to take care of that Secret Santa on your list? Your Style Avatar has the perfect solution!

"..."reclaim" parkland that no one uses, they sure as hell can fix those trashy eyesores that blight our grandest..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Just Friends

A tepid romantic comedy with a side order of vitriol.

"...Allen-lite, held her own against the not-inconsiderable powers of Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray in Frank Oz’s underrated What..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Palindromes

Nominally the story of a 13-year-old girl who longs for a baby, Todd Solondz's latest is provocative, wicked, even bleakly funny, and ultimately empty.

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Ellen Barkin, Richard Masur, Debra Monk, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Richard Riehle and Stephen..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and being saved? Who cares?! Send 'em straight to hell, because the theists want to spend a few more..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Column

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