Inside the Seventies Weed Business in Wild Times in Old Austin

Dazed, confused, and profitable

"...of misogynistic comments throughout is indicative of a less-enlightened, Seventies mentality and comes across as clueless in this age..."

June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Return to the Seventies at Bobcat Ball

Lambda of Texas State's fundraiser unites students and locals

"...This year’s theme for the ball is Seventies disco fever and folks are encouraged to serve their..."

April 25, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Alex Puente

Will Courtney Summons Seventies L.A.

The rootsy popsmith takes the production reins in a West Austin duplex

"...Country Store or Doug Weston's Troubadour in the early Seventies. In today's contracted landscape, Courtney figured the best way..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Not the Early Sixties but the Early Seventies

"...Arts, August 11]? My vote is for the early Seventies, when people started staying here. Remember what Sir Doug..."

Aug. 17, 2006 Postmarks

A Rich Herstory

Lesbian Archivists: Still Diggin' the Seventies

"...talks about life as a lesbian Austinite in the Seventies (sound, 1:34). [ .AIFF (349K) | .WAV (748K) |..."

Feb. 7, 1997 News Feature by Clay Smith

Score

A bisexual romp from 1972 from Radley Metzger, the film industry's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies.

"...film's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies (The Lickerish Quartet, Therese and Isabel), may be the..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Girl Two

"...just for the heck of it, in the early Seventies. Since it takes up soon after the original My..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Hobo With a Shotgun

Though it's a great title, this Rutger Hauer movie is an unfocused throwback to Seventies exploitation films.

"...in his mitts. It's an ode, of sorts, to Seventies grindhouse cinema, curdled and gooey and tailor-made for midnight..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Runaways

A grittily femme perspective governs this otherwise conventional music saga about the Runaways, America's first all-girl rock band.

"...shot and a fittingly revolutionary battle cry, courtesy of Seventies rock icon Suzi Quatro: "All my life I've wanted..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jackie Brown

Based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, this is a fairly straight-ahead, Seventies-styled caper film.

"...though he's doing the same for the queen of Seventies blaxploitation films, Pam Grier (Foxy Brown, Coffy) as well..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Studio 54

The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub

"...months that marked its entire existence during the late Seventies. It’s a tantalizing offer that’s stuffed with celebrity, scandal,..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Infinitely Polar Bear

Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana star in this intimate family drama

"...told from the kids’ perspective. Set sometime in the mid-Seventies, the film shows the early love between Cam and..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The House of the Devil

This retro horror film is the freakiest and most unnerving shocker in theatres this season.

"...which effects-heavy/terror-lite remakes of a veritable Pandora's box of Seventies and Eighties slasher flicks have both bedeviled filmgoers with..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Breakfast on Pluto

In this latest from Neil Jordan, Cillian Murphy plays the swinging transvestite Patrick "Kitten" Braden, who wanders through and into the pop-and-politics culture of Seventies England.

"...slice of Ye Olde Eire Sod’s history – the Seventies, mainly – as viewed through the Alice in Wonderland..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Detroit Rock City

Four high school bandmates try to get into a KISS concert.

"...fluctuate according to your degree of nostalgia for the Seventies. This story about four high school dudes trying to..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Detroit 9000

Blaxploitation classic re-released in 1999 by Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder distribution company.

"...the seemingly uncrackable case. Tossed together in the early Seventies racial hotbed of department politics, the pair have little..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jackie Chan's First Strike

"...yet from the style and scale of his legendary Seventies and Eighties output. Quirky Hong Kong federal agent “Jackie”..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Very Brady Sequel

"...worked surprisingly well in its juxtaposition of America's favorite Seventies sitcom family against a backdrop of Nineties sensibilities, A..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Out of the Blue

Dennis Hopper’s lost film murders the Seventies

"...now) rarely available 1980 film tracked the decline of Seventies excess into no-future nihilism. At least, that’s what everyone..."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Love Witch

Blood sugar sex magick

"...past decade. Harnessing a throwback style of Sixties and Seventies exploitation films, Biller meticulously crafts her movies with such..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Everybody Wants Some!!

Time moves on, but Richard Linklater's characters still walk and talk

"...called a “spiritual sequel” to Austin auteur Richard Linklater’s Seventies-set Dazed and Confused, this charmingly meandering look at the..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Too Late

Experimental neo-noir is held together by the magnificent John Hawkes

"...exactly the film’s problem. Emblazoned with ambition, this throwback Seventies-style private-eye movie (think Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye or..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Connection

The French-made Connection owes much to The French Connection

"...scenic backdrop of the French port city in the mid-Seventies. With his radiant smile, manicured sideburns, and tailor-made suits,..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Potiche

Catherine Deneuve stars in this French comedy set in 1977 about a trophy wife.

"...the tenor of any one of a number of late-Seventies French sex comedies. Deneuve has the leading role as..."

April 22, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

High, Low, and In Between

Steve Earle talks Townes

"...Austin and Houston, the folk scene of the early Seventies was thriving, and Earle went looking for his place..."

June 19, 2009 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Roll Bounce

Hot-wiring a penchant for sports film truisms to some seriously spot-on Seventies nostalgia, this Bow Wow vehicle is an easygoing portrayal of teenage camaraderie and its attendant difficulties.

"...penchant for sports film clichés to some seriously spot-on Seventies nostalgia that looks and feels true not only in..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lords of Dogtown

This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.

"...best – feature film about skate culture and the mid-Seventies Southern California scene that birthed everything from competitive skating..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Weather Underground

Former members of the Weather Underground still know a thing or two about "which way the wind blows" in this always timely documentary.

"...some of the aging core members of the infamous late-Sixties-Seventies radical group the Weather Underground proves to be a..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

House of 1000 Corpses

"...something has clearly been lost in the translation from Seventies-era spook movies – from which both White Zombie, the..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Narc

"...more direct antecedents in the cop outings of the Seventies: There's more than a touch of Frank Serpico, Popeye..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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