Passion Project

Fantastic Fest and its home base the Alamo Drafthouse have only gotten bigger, but its heart – pure and pulpy – stays the same

"...such an incredible legacy of literature and poetry and science and science fiction. And he created the detective story...."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

How Soon Is Now?

William Gibson talks about the short shelf life of cyberpunk.

"...people create their own worlds on its head, as science creates its own ghostly world of digital phantoms superimposed..."

June 6, 2008 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Brain Behind Cyc

Doug Lenat discusses artificial intelligence and its increasing presence in the next century.

"...just about everyone. Lenat earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 1976, but he credits his move into the..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

"A Celebration of Writing, and Reading"

Louis Black's notes on the first Chronicle Short Story Contest

"...Texas Monthly); novelist Elizabeth Harris (then a teacher of fiction writing at the University of Texas and recent winner..."

June 14, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Point Austin: Rick Perry, Boy Scientist

When it comes to science, the Inquisition's got nothing on the guv

"...has conceded he's "crazy" enough to believe the current science on man-made climate change), Perry responded to a reference..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Column by Michael King

The Sensational Saga of Mr. Sinus

Picking up where Mystery Science Theater 3000 left off, Mr. Sinus Theater 3000 skewers the movies of our childhood to sold-out crowds at the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...conclusion was the same: A live version of Mystery Science Theater 3000 didn't sound like a good time. So..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Fictional Blogs

When is a lie a good lie? Fictional Bloggers and the people who read them, love them, hate them.

"...continuum between a lie on one end and good fiction on the other? What are the ethics of fictional..."

March 12, 2007 SXSW Post by Belinda Acosta

All Creatures Great and Small

With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news.

"...goats, writer Rick Bass told me that he thought fiction and poetry concerning the natural world could ultimately provide..."

May 18, 2001 Books Feature by Dan Oko

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...and, furthermore, proves that sometimes things are stranger than fiction. (10/27/95)4.0 stars (M.B.) Dobie..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...and, furthermore, proves that sometimes things are stranger than fiction. (10/27/95)4.0 stars (M.B.) Dobie..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...performances are all great. Travolta demonstrates that his Pulp Fiction return to stardom was no one-trick fluke; Hackman works..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Dune: Part Two

Frank Herbert’s galaxy-spanning narrative continues

"...Fortunately, Herbert provided Villeneuve with some of science fiction’s most despicable villains in House Harkonnen, with the..."

March 1, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jules

Retirees meet E.T. in this lackluster but well-performed dramedy

"...it has pit stops in some more familiar, provoking science-fiction concepts and imagery, including an offscreen head explosion, the..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Flash

Can we change history so this depressing IP smashup wasn't made?

"...operating within a full-on multiverse story when the most science fiction-y his films really got were mostly just by..."

June 16, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Comic Creator Spotlight on Sean McKeever: "I Went Off and Found My Voice"

For Free Comic Book Day we chat with Austin's sequential standouts

"...Currently working on: “A AAA science-fiction RPG for consoles and PC, and comicswise, I’ve got..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Comic Creator Spotlight on Zach Chapman: "When I Get That Art Back, It's Instant Gratification"

For Free Comic Book Day we chat with Austin's sequential standouts

"...Haunting on Mars (Scout Comics). “That’s my two loves, science fiction and horror. It’s like Neuromancer written by Shirley..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

65

Adam Driver takes on dinosaurs as a space traveler in the wrong era

"...65,000,002 years ago, on a fictional planet in a gaseous galaxy, interstellar pilot Mills (Driver),..."

March 17, 2023 Movie Review by Dex Wesley Parra

Five Exhibits Beyond Mere Eye Candy

Form and substance balanced in these thought-provoking works

"...Moody Castro, that investigates the ambiguity of truth and fiction in history and archives, using the romanization of the..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Infinity Pool

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

"...start to get a bit muddled here, although the science-fiction concept seems sound. James fights his naked self by..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alienoid

Time-travelling SF wire fu thriller is as overpacked as it sounds

"...Science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke's third law of SF writing..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lightyear

Pixar's Toy Story spin-off never achieves lift-off

"...should find itself in common thematic territory with a science-fiction classic like Deep Space Nine and botch the landing..."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Neptune Frost

Activist artist Saul Williams crafts an Afrofuturist classic

"...world a visually stunning and of-the-moment piece of revolutionary science-fiction goodness. The colors in Neptune Frost pop like a..."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

After Yang

A tender sci-fi parable about loss and connection

"...The touchstone for post-human science fiction undoubtedly remains Blade Runner, and Mandy cinematographer Benjamin..."

March 4, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

Universal insights into unique stories

"...has a provocative premise and a distinctive setting. A science-fiction story set in the fully automated near-future, “Please Hold”..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Awaken

Malick-endorsed abstract world trip finds joy in our world

"...Gunpowder & Sky's Dust shingle (normally a home to science fiction), and maybe a sense of gorgeously shot wonder..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tenet

Time goes backward and forward these days …

"...an old story. A fascinating indie filmmaker, especially in science fiction, trades off complexity of ideas for budget. It's..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Permanent Vacation in Palm Springs With Max Barbakow

A time loop movie influenced by everything but Groundhog Day

"...The science-fiction element evolved because of influences like doppelganger rom-com The..."

July 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Truth

Binoche and Deneuve clash exquisitely as mère et fille

"...film The Truth, the great Catherine Deneuve plays the fictional role of Fabienne Dangeville, an aging doyenne of the..."

July 3, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

“Cowboys in Space” Exhibit Finds the Frontier in the Stars

Exploring the infinite plains at the Bullock Museum

"...has assembled for the show would delight generations of science-fiction buffs. Here, there's an early edition of From the..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Depraved

A modern Frankenstein finds the sins of the fathers in war and commerce

"...given how often it feels less like an independent science-fiction feature and more like a drawing-room drama. Then again,..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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