Our Lying Eyes

A New Revelation, like its predecessor, Waco: Rules of Engagement, will face an uphill climb with the intellectual and political establishment.

"...Morning News, contacted McNulty, who was already showing a rough cut of Revelation to congressional figures. He gave her..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Dick J. Reavis

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...disco becomes an epoch that nobody else really lived through. Were this truly the "illumination" of DJ culture that..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Bring Her Back

Philippou brothers' occult horror about the foster family from hell

"...the world to her, just with some of the rough edges smoothed down. After all, what harm can a..."

May 30, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Magic Mike’s Last Dance

Come for Channing Tatum dancing. Stay for … Channing Tatum dancing.

"...It’s been a rough few years for Mike Lane (Tatum). Having lost his..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Infinity Pool

Body doubles take on a new, sick meaning in this next gen Cronenberg horror

"...languorous relaxation. The film is a plunge into extremely rough, bottomless waters. The film comes from the mind of..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unplugging

Technology and a lack of laughs get in the way of this rom-com

"...former attorney who’s glued to her iPhone 24/7 while house-husband Dan runs an artisanal hot sauce micro-business out of..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

“No Willie, Waylon, or the Armadillo in 1977!!!” The Punk Beast Begins to Stir in Austin

A nascent scene takes shape in chapter three of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...club excited him more. The Fabulous Thunderbirds were the house band, sharpening their Chicago-esque chops onstage with greats like..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Toll

A rideshare into cosmic horror is just worth paying attention

"...up from amateur dramatics, or a charity fundraising haunted house – but that's not a negative. There's something very..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

No Good Deed

Idris Elba plays a home invader hell-bent on terrorizing Taraji P. Henson’s suburban mom.

"...that kind of movie), the parole board sees right through Colin’s reformed posturing to the “malignant narcissist” (Erich Fromm..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Kill Your Darlings

Daniel Radcliffe stars as Allen Ginsburg in this sweet and sour story about the loves and collegiate years of some of the Beat writers.

"...poet by the name of Allen Ginsberg bandies about throughout this sweet and sour biopic about the collegiate years..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Face Off Recap: Bad For Your Gums

Candy-coated nightmares as the contestants suffer sweet dreams

"...House's jelly-belly monster is cute and nasty. That it's been..."

Feb. 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

God Loves Ya When You Dance

Texan outlaw Billy Joe Shaver, straight shooter

"...hangs from the front door of the songwriter's modest house, tucked into a quiet neighborhood on the edge of..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Off the Record

OTR goes country with Mike & the Moonpies and Fire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas

"...shotgunned like a can of Miller Lite. George Strait brought the marathon evening to a close with a freight..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Streets of Love

Stalking the Stones across Europe

"...platinum the instant that Javier, banking in Düsseldorf, read through the European tour dates on RollingStones.com in February. The..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

X-Men: The Last Stand

This third outing in the franchise lays on the subtext even more heavily than its predecessors – racial, gender, and sexual politics are all over the place, as are the multiple strands of the story line.

"...person of color (blue), lodged in a high-ranking White House cabinet post and charged with holding the wavering cultural..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Don't Move

Italian story of a surgeon who falls in love with a country girl (Penélope Cruz), flirts with the self-pitying mindset of the slumming elite, and becomes something of an apology for bourgeois classism.

"...all, including but not limited to the opulent beach house, radiant and intelligent spouse (Gerini), and vivacious teenage daughter..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Reckoning

A traveling troupe of actors in medieval England stumble upon a mysterious murder and end up single-handedly inventing the morality play.

"...mysterious murder in one of the towns they pass through and end up single-handedly inventing the morality play, I’d..."

April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mapping Calle Ancha

The Avenue That Existed Before That Big Parking Lot in the Sky, I-35, Was Built

"...La Calle -- was unpaved. Waller Creek trickled untamed through part of it. Broad pelts of rough pasture, with..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Belinda Acosta

Here Comes the Nice

Small Face Ronnie Lane's tenure in Austin is preserved on Live in Austin.

"...hit), "Tin Soldier," "Lazy Sunday," "Afterglow" -- made them household names and teen idols as their music evolved from..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Where the Heart is

"...new home and is taken in by Channing's amusingly rough-around-the-edges Sister Husband, a recovering alcoholic who fornicates daily and..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Filmmaker

Chris Smith's American Movie depicts one man's passionate struggle to make a film.

"...and a midnight screening of "Coven" at the Alamo Drafthouse on Wednesday, October 22, as part of the Texas..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wisdom of Years

Whatever Way the Wind Blows

"...In 1985, a drummer and songwriter named Mas Palermo brought music back to Willis' life. While Willis was finishing..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Governess

"...a world completely alien to her -- from the rough-hewn landscape to the icy reserve of the Cavendish household...."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Untrained Wonders

UT's Exhibition of Self-Taught Artists Features Miracles

"...all manner of wood -- twigs and branches and rough boards -- to tell their tales. Often this compulsive..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Spotting the Rare Cheap Rental

The history and habits of a not-quite-extinct-yet Austin species

"...Do you know that little stone house at Eighth and Waller streets, set up high on..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Michael Erard

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...in Round Rock. We interviewed hunky new carpenter Carter Oosterhouse, pert and perky hostess Paige Davis, two designers (supersweet..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Wednesday

A primo Tiger Den showcase, iLe, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and more

"...warned up toward the end – a Santana-on-peyote run through Duke Ellington’s “Caravan.” Fellow Dominican Letón Pé‘s high sweet..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Faster Than Sound: Concert Lineups Crumble Amidst Omicron Surge

Free Week navigates cancellations and stricter safety guidelines reemerge

"...a lot of that spike we had in mid-July through August," says Connelly. "That was rough, but it didn't..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW’s Fifth Artist List

Todd Rundgren, Starcrawler and 110 more

"...Southwest Music programmers now dish weekly micro-announcements that shift through acts bubbling up from the global underground...."

Jan. 25, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Grimm Guignol

Ryan Gosling's directorial debut melds fantasy and realism

"...Lost River refracts the classic story of American decay through Brothers Grimm folklore, making the city both immediately identifiable..."

April 10, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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