Other Worlds Review: Sweet River

Australian supernatural thriller follows a mother's pain

"...up, dredging for old memories, heartbroken, furious that the cops have up the hunt. It's why John (veteran Australian..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Many Worlds of Author Marshall Ryan Maresca

The Austin-based maestro of Maradaine writes and sells at a steady and impressive pace

"...tracks: one vigilante-by-night, one old-time warrior, one two-brothers-heists, one two-cops-solve-murders. And that was the origin of everything. And so..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin at Large: And Still, We Rise

Austin has liberated itself from exhausted narratives before. It's time to do it again.

"...the polls by enough people to flip the old script entirely by the end of the decade...."

June 12, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: People, Get Ready

We can all be responsible Austinites – now that we know what that requires

"...Barr has signaled he might – is explicitly going off-script in Texas. Even the state's GOP elite would rather..."

May 1, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Challenge of Playing Living People in Zach Theatre's Notes From the Field

The cast discusses how hard it can be getting into the skin of living people in Anna Deavere Smith’s play

"...when we have to draw upon ourselves and the script and really investigate, like, "Why did you stop right..."

March 1, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Playing Townes

Charlie Sexton and Richard Linklater talk about the role of a lifetime

"...Period. All you gotta do is put together the script. But you know these are some of the hardest..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Ethan Hawke

Chronicle Recommends: Crime and No Punishment

For Crime Month, our favorite films about getting away with it

"...hand, or bank robbers one step ahead of the cops, Hollywood has always had a love affair with the..."

July 9, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Getting Caught on 7 Splinters in Time

Director explains mindwarping time travel flick before screening

"...who looks so like him that even his fellow cops can't tell them apart. When other doppelgangers start turning..."

June 27, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thirtysomething Reunites Thirtysomething Years Later

Cast and crew celebrate the groundbreaking precursor to peak TV's best

"...The Big Chill, thirtysomething relied on an unusually strong script for TV of the time (Draper said she actually..."

June 10, 2018 Screens Post by Danielle White

Beside the Point: All Eyes on Him

The spotlight on interim – er, well, yeah, interim – Chief Brian Manley

"...speak to Mark Conditt's character, providing only a one-sentence description of an audio confession police found on his person..."

March 30, 2018 News Column by Chase Hoffberger

DVDanger: Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases

"...from an alternate timeline, where Buddy Holly never died, cops drive Studebakers, and style is everything. No wonder Hill..."

June 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Television Festival 2017

Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley comes home

"...descend on the town to talk turkey (get that script to someone who matters), reunite with old friends (Commander..."

June 9, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

DVDanger: Bound to Vengeance

Female protagonists tested in home invasion and revenge flicks

"...Why doesn't it dawn on her to call the cops, instead of attempting to undertake a solo rescue mission..."

Nov. 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cats

Two Italian retellings of the American horror classic

"...I Have the Key. The credits announce that the script by Adriano Bolzoni, Ernesto Gastaldi, and Luciano Martino is..."

Oct. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part Two

The Editor and Reality, movies about movies

"...Huerta (Nurse 3D) and Udo Kier stalk through a script that brazenly nods to The Beyond, Pieces, Zombi 2,..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: A Bad Case of the Sequels

Retreads, remakes, and do-overs rule the home releases

"...that brought you Glee and American Horror Story (Gomez-Rejon, scripter Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and producer Ryan Murphy) is at least..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Supremacy

A timely and tragic depiction of intolerance and bigotry

"...Much of the credit belongs with the script by Eric J. Adams, who expands his 15 minute..."

April 25, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Brian Bosworth is Not Stone-Hearted

The Boz on football, drama and Stone Cold

"...1991 with Stone Cold, a no-brain, all-muscle and guns cops-and-bikers flick, whose cult status earns it a special screening..."

May 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

His Name Was Gary Poulter

Meet the homeless man who became a movie star

"...facility along the way. They approached their job like cops – always alert, instinctively hunting for just the right..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

J'accuse! In Korean!

'Confession of Murder' is guilty … of being pretty kickass

"...quite rises to the level of the many superior cops 'n' crazies pics that South Korea now seems to..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

DVD Watch: 'Vanishing Waves'

Tender, shocking, erotic: Maybe not what you expect from Lithuania

"...Cinedigm included on the disc, his designs informed the script as much as they respond to it. The film's..."

July 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Tower Block'

UK suspense with a thick slice of social realism and bloodshed

"...for her troubles. Even she won't talk to the cops when they come round asking for witnesses. This is,..."

July 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Steady Rain

A Chick & a Dude Productions keeps this drama of Chicago beat cops challenging and engaging from start to finish

"...play Denny and Joey, a pair of Chicago beat cops who have been friends since childhood and who can't..."

March 1, 2013 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Extras Sought for Tom Hanks-Produced 'Parkland'

Film shoots locally in January with Billy Bob Thornton & Paul Giamatti

"...be directed by Peter Landesman (who also wrote the script), is produced by Tom Hanks, and will star Billy..."

Dec. 5, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Plastic Platoon

Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures

"...He also readily cops to the fact that because so many of the..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Occupational Hazards

Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video

"...he didn't get out of there, I'd call the cops. And he ran like a rabbit. But that kind..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rain, Broken Glass, and a Dead Body in the Dumpster

Fourteen hours of Elizabeth Reeder's A Very Bad Day

"...about the dead man in the Dumpster and the cops outside. "Y'all are doing really great," Reeder encourages. "It's..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

The Gumball Rally

An escapist romp from 1976, it's determined to have a good time, and what's wrong with that?

"...that? Constant car crashes, sex jokes, and outrunning inept cops. Ten-four, good buddy...."

Nov. 11, 2005 Screens Review by Joe O'Connell

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...contemporary political situation in Venezuela. The following is a transcript of the two interviews, lightly edited for clarity...."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Shear Madness

Zach's spirited revival of 'Shear Madness,' that audience-interactive murder mystery-comedy, just might be the kind of confection your dayjob-wearied mind could use

"...shady-dealing heavy, a philandering lady-who-drinks/lunches, a pair of undercover cops).Ê..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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