Rock Camp: The Movie

Music fans seek glam without the grit and grind as they play with stadium-fillers

"...Music producer David Fishof’s seasonal Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is exactly what it sounds..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).

"...Pitt, Andrea Martin, Stephen Trask and Miriam Shor. Despite the glowering of her irritable, angry inch, Hedwig -- the..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tie-Died: Rock 'n Roll's Most Deadicated Fans

"...What could be more timely than a film about the Grateful Dead's camp followers, the Deadheads who follow the..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Back to 'School of Rock'

Get schooled on the film by Mike White, Jack Black, and Richard Linklater in time for its 10th anniversary

"...Jack Black was 34 when The School of Rock was released; it was his first..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

This Must Be the Place

In this odd but intriguing concoction, Sean Penn disappears into the strange body of a retired goth rock god who leaves his Dublin castle and goes on a road trip across America to hunt a Nazi prison guard.

"...Sean Penn performs another one of his amazing transmogrification acts as the rock..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

God Save the Screen

Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly spent seven years hunting Mohawks for their mad, mammoth compendium, Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film

"...small town, graduating high school (if you could be bothered) between '80 and '84, chances are you spent a..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

How the West Was Sung

The Newton Boys Soundtrack: An Oral History

"...THE NEWTON PLAYERS..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

The Time of Their Lives

Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane reflect on the 12 years they spent making 'Boyhood'

"...busy, in fact, that even though he lives in the Austin area, the only chance we have to talk..."

July 18, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...pace. Multiplying faster than partridges in pear trees, during the next five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day,..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer’s Here, and the Time Is Right

Rock camps: open!

"...It’s summer and the music camps are open. All around the city, kids..."

June 16, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

How Napster Changed the World and Lost Everything

Alex Winter brings 'Downloaded' to Alamo Slaughter Lane tonight

"...Without Napster, there would have been no iTunes, no Spotify, no Facebook...."

July 1, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"...Voxtrot would like to revise their last will and testament, please. No, not that part..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Letters at 3AM: He Took the Cat to Texas

This is the final story in the many-storied life of Mayer Vishner

"...Mayer couldn't kill himself until he took the cat to Texas...."

Sept. 20, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...kicking off its 2025 Film & TV Festival with The Studio, the new Apple TV+ half-hour series from Seth..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Checking In: Nina Diaz Ponders Playing As the Titanic Sinks

“I thought to myself, ‘Would I play ’til the ship sank?’”

"...LP, Amigos Amigos, is Nina Diaz. “A tremulous indie rock contribution from Nina Diaz, ‘Coming Home Today,’ echoes Linda..."

Nov. 18, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Eye of the Storm

Doc explores the creative vision of an album cover art pioneer

"...helicopter flies over Saunton Sands in North Devon, England. The crystal beach is littered with roughly 700 empty hospital..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Austin Powell

Inside the Octagon With New UFC Documentary Thug Rose

How Rose Namajunas puts the art in mixed martial arts

"...Thug Rose: Mixed Martial Artist debuted at the Austin Film Festival this week, and while it certainly..."

Nov. 5, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Summer Camp Guide

"...Pack the bug spray, the laptop, the curling iron ......"

April 28, 2006 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bomb City Retells the Tensions Behind the Killing of a Texas Punk

Brian Deneke’s life and death story comes to local screens

"...Life cut short for no good reason. The story is as old as what's now called Texas,..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Beyond the Mat

"...for two hours to get your first-edition copy of The Rock Says signed by the author, you'll find plenty..."

March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...by Marjorie Baumgarten, Sarah Hepola, Marcel Meyer, and Jessica..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

The Wight Stuff

Message to Love: This Ain't No Woodstock

"...farm in upstate New York and a racetrack in Northern California lies a small island off the coast of..."

June 20, 1997 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Thanks for the Memories

'Chronicle' staff past and present on 20 years of covering SXSW Film

"...Southwest as a film event and added music later, rather than the other way around. After all, Nick Barbaro..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...or baseball, find Alvin Crow. If you're looking for the best fiddle player in Austin, Alvin Crow's your man...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...Between mid May and Labor Day, there are only 15 weekends - the weekends that define..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

A trio of “showgirls” – two drag queens and one transgender woman – venture out of tolerant, big-city Sydney and into the wilds of central Australia.

"...Pearce, Bill Hunter and Sarah Chadwick. This may be the only instance where three queens beat a royal flush...."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

DVDanger: The Burning and The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Another gruesome twosome for your weekend's viewing

"...Y'know, it's funny. Considering that the filmmaking Weinstein brothers of Miramax fame made their feature-writing..."

May 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

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