Neptune Frost

Activist artist Saul Williams crafts an Afrofuturist classic

"...by: Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman. Starring: Bertrand Ninteretse, Robert Ninteretse, Elvis Ngabo, Cheryl Isheja, Eliane Umuhire, Ekaterina Baker..."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Rise of the Guardians

Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman team together like Cartoon All-Stars in this animated picture.

"...and the Sandman (a mute) team up with Jack Frost (Pine) to defeat the Boogeyman, aka Pitch (Law), who..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

"Reweave: 2021"

With her exhibition, artist Jade Walker entwines viewers in the future of the planet

"...Like Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," Jade Walker's art..."

July 23, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Safe House

This hectic, deftly edited, and unexpectedly bracing thriller stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.

"...Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Vera Farmiga, Robert Patrick, Rubén Blades, Nora Arnezeder and Sebastian Roché...."

Feb. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Human Factor

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost on romantic zomedy 'Shaun of the Dead'

"...with kudos from Peter Jackson, a hat-waving ovation from Robert Rodriguez, and the enthusiastic blessing of the man himself,..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

This new chapter in the series splits the difference between kickstarter Twilight’s stylish camp and follow-up New Moon’s turgid drama, but still does not come up a winner.

"...Directed by: David Slade. Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Bryce Dallas Howard, Peter..."

July 2, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Whole Universe Rocks

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.

"...curators have included a bit of handwritten doggerel by Robert Frost mocking the Imagists...."

Dec. 12, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Spy Game

"...Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Stephen Dillane, Catherine Mccormack, Brad Pitt and Robert Redford. Ponderous and bulky, swaddled in an aura of..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer

"...Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, H.D., Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens: Every poet today..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

"...Directed by: Robert Heath. This exhaustive documentary on the life of Playboy..."

Feb. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fireflies in the Garden

This long-delayed drama about family dysfunction stars Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, and Julia Roberts.

"...by: Dennis Lee. Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Ioan Gruffudd, Hayden Panettiere, Shannon..."

Oct. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Articulations

Sad songs for local choral companies -- Austin ProChorus ends its song and Chorus Austin lets go its executive director -- but a sweet tune for Arts Center Stage: a million-dollar donation from Southwestern Bell.

"...Lyons, and commissioned several pieces -- a setting of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by..."

April 19, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Here on Earth

"...affection, a pragmatic, hard-working young girl, who nonetheless reads Robert Frost poetry and describes her favorite spot as “a..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...movies and shows, with new films from Olivia Wilde, Robert Rodriguez, Christopher Morris, and more...."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

A Continuity of Discontinuity

"...friction, Hay's barely audible soundtracks emanate something like what Robert Frost called the "sound of sense" – what distinguishes..."

March 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Opie on Top

AFF to honor Ron Howard's extraordinary contribution to filmmaking

"...blockbuster (the Da Vinci movies) and fall Oscar bait (Frost/Nixon). But the sentimental fave has to be Parenthood: Steve..."

July 14, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM

Let's Get Drunk and Read Poetry

"...Robert Bly: "I know that books are tired of us,/I..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Books Reviews

"...legend among modern Texas poets. He was awarded the Robert Frost Memorial Award in 1962 from the great Frost..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Books Feature by Ric Williams

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Shot Liberty Valance, Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin (U.S. release), Robert Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, and lesser but..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

AFF Knows We Like to Watch

Local film Harmony and Me tops sneak peek at festival lineup

"...year's lineup, including three intriguing-sounding documentaries about black comedy (Robert Townsend's Why We Laugh), screenwriting (Peter Hanson's Tales From..."

Aug. 26, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...star studded to date, with Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, Oscar-nominees Robert Downey Jr. and Paul Giamatti, and electronic pioneers New..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Singers

Area high school poets get to share the concert stage with old-school masters of verse

"...had no problem finding masters of verse to include. Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Lewis Carroll, Christopher..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Film Critics Association Announces Year-End Awards

The Austin Film Critics Association loves it some bat

"...The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Wrestler WALL*E Frost/Nixon Let the Right One In Gran Torino..."

Dec. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Film News

How to spend $5 million, get signed at Sundance, and get Caught in the Act

"...repercussions," said film producer Elizabeth Avellán, who, along with Robert Rodriguez, also was key to Austin Studios' creation. "This..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Page Two

"...the activity. This issue's package of cover stories has Robert Bryce and Liza Tozzi taking a look at the..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Audio, Audio

Books on Tape

"...fate's accident. Long ago she had a fling with Robert James Waller, the man who wrote The Cash Cow..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Books Feature by Michael Bertin

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 4-10

"...William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Frost. Pound edited their work, arranged to get them..."

June 4, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" posits the impossibility of..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: An Immodest Proposal

Preventing the music scene from burdening the city

"...asked if he thought of himself as a poet, Robert Frost replied that 'poet' was a gift word. You..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...Every Northern European culture knows that Robert Frost was wrong. The woods may be dark and..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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