That Eighties Film

How Everybody Wants Some!! re-created history

"...It’s been said that Richard Linklater’s latest, Everybody Wants Some!!, is the Eighties successor..."

April 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Shooting the Breeze with Speed Levitch

The star of Rick Linklater's 'Up to Speed' speaks

"...Recently, Richard Linklater debuted his new Hulu web series Up to..."

Aug. 22, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Review: Georgetown Palace’s The Sound of Music

Production captures the core of an old-fashioned musical

"...It’s been a year since Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s last and arguably most popular..."

Sept. 5, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Beau Is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix is the understated fool in this bloated Oedipal epic

"...Zoe Lister-Jones, Parker Posey, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane and Richard Kind...."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Piggy

Spanish teen slasher subverts the tropes with a new kind of protagonist

"...Directed by: Carlota Pereda. Starring: Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi, Irene Ferreiro, Camille Aguilar, Claudia Salas..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Jasmine Lane

What’cha Watchin’?

Screens editor Richard Whittaker is all about that (Disney) park life

"...about some strange detail at a Disney park, the kind you would come up with in line for Mister..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Lodge

Family drama becomes an exercise in cruelty that may go to far

"...ass). If the characters are not subjected to some kind of existential driver then there is no reason for..."

Sept. 22, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Crack Pipes’ Beautiful Protest

Track premiere from the ATX blues punks’ vinyl reissue

"...Riding a uniquely punkified take on blues and soul,..."

Sept. 26, 2017 Music Post by Michael Toland

Wes Craven, Philosopher of Terror

Remembering the horror innovator

"...the genre's leading philosopher. He said, "I think those kind of films are a vent that's necessary. What do..."

Sept. 5, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

First Look: Stella San Jac

Even more Southern hospitality

"...have always gotten a bad rap. Legendary food writer Richard Olney used the words as a slur, sneering at..."

Aug. 19, 2015 Food Post by Brandon Watson

Mishima: The Last Jewel in the Wasteland

Linklater's AFS series ends with Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

"...Last year, AFS founding member and artistic director, Richard Linklater, curated a series called Jewels in the Wasteland,..."

June 10, 2015 Screens Post by Alexa Harrington

Geezerville’s Best of 2014 Volume 2

Top 10s playlist – a final spin of the year that was

"...songs from the past 12 months. It starts off kind of freaky, but ends up in roots-rock heaven. True..."

Jan. 7, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

DVDanger: Stuart Gordon Plays with Dolls

Horror pioneer talks Disney, fairy tales, and tiny terrors

"...But with 1987's Dolls, he went for a different kind of dark fantasy. He said, "My favorite line is,..."

Nov. 15, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Obvious Child

Jenny Slate stars as a standup comic in this indie film about abortion that comes snuggled in the broad strokes of a quirky comedy.

"...Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, Gabe Liedman, David Cross, Richard Kind and Polly Draper...."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Before and After

Screen 'Before Midnight' and its prequels back-to-back with AFS

"...Confession: I took rather a unique approach to watching Richard Linklater's Before trilogy starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy...."

May 2, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Argo

Ben Affleck directs this entertaining thriller about an unbelievable-but-true mission to extricate American hostages from Iran in 1980.

"...Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Chris Messina, Zeljko Ivanek and Richard Kind...."

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hereafter

Clint Eastwood looks into the great beyond and sees dead people – lots of them, and chatty souls they are, too.

"...Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic, Derek Jacobi, Marthe Keller and Richard Kind. Hereafter is a consistently identifiable Clint Eastwood movie..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Top Gear': Ten Years, Mostly Accident Free

Three idiots drive fast cars, proving the genius of the BBC

"...each other. There's Jeremy Clarkson (the tall, sardonic one), Richard Hammond (the short, enthusiastic one) and James May (better..."

June 11, 2009 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Greatest Greatest Hits

Nick Lowe, Filter, etc.

"...guitar jangle. If you only know “Cruel to Be Kind,” it’ll open your ears to some of the best..."

April 1, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Brush Off Your Shakespeare

Friends, countrymen... Welcome to Film Fight

"...(It sounds like an annoyance, I know, but I'm kind of loving it. My conversation companions, maybe not so..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...his predictions about the future; it takes a special kind of jackass to make those predictions in the first..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin wrote, directed, and stars in this endearing schlub-in-Chicago movie that features contributions from Sarah Silverman, Bonnie Hunt, and other comic performers.

"...Silverman, Bonnie Hunt, David Pasquesi, Mina Kolb, Amy Sedaris, Richard Kind, Dan Castellaneta, Gina Gershon and Paul Mazursky. Well,..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Slack to the Future

Slacker at 20

"...This year marks the 20th anniversary of Richard Linklater's Slacker, the best – and maybe the most..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Playing the Bad Guy

With actor David Stahl currently appearing as the wicked Richard III and actor Katherine Catmull having recently played the evil Goneril in King Lear, the challenge of playing villains seemed a ripe topic to launch a series of artist-to-artist conversations on craft.

"...But as he is now appearing as the wicked Richard III for the Disciples of Melpomene, and I recently..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

The Hells Angels Hit

Anthony Benesh was shot down by a sniper – the suspects, and theories, are legion

"...more complicated. Benesh was no angel, says his uncle Richard Benesh, and he "wasn't afraid of much." And Benesh..."

May 19, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Black and White and Rick All Over

The ABCs of 'The School of Rock'

"...Jack Black, screenwriter and actor Mike White, and director Richard (aka Rick) Linklater are the primary creative forces that..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Say Anything

Eric Bogosian Comes Clean

"...by Richard Linklater..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Arts Feature

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

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...wickedly hilarious but more in a droll and knowing kind of sense than a har-de-har-har manner. Director Sonnenfeld (the..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

King Knight

Gentle pagan comedy lets the outsiders find their place

"...Directed by: Richard Bates Jr.. Starring: Matthew Gray Gubler, Angela Sarafyan, Andy..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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