Moontower 2018 Reviews: A Comic a Day

A schooling in stand-up from Notaro, Haddish, and more

"...do with hearing the same people chat week-in and week-out in a format more off-the-cuff than we traditionally associate..."

April 24, 2018 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...annihilation or government surveillance. But that’s what’s so great about the dystopia genre: Set a story 200 years in..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: Another Evil

Carson D. Mell on crying exorcists, plus home release update

"...Dreyfuss took on Bill Murray as patient in What About Bob?..."

May 6, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Tales From the Hood

In the wake of Get Out, a classic anthology revisited

"...of its time. With the massive success of Get Out, it's earned a long-overdue Blu-ray release...."

April 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Monday Showcase Picks

"...Aerobic International & Friends7:45pm, Sidewinder (outside)..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...one of the most notorious nights of Austin music without knowing what it was doing...."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Top 10 Underrated Restaurants

Good eats you might have missed in 2016

"...The signage outside may be slightly ramshackle and the dining room a..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Food Feature by Mary Bryce

DVDanger: I Am Not a Serial Killer

Director Billy O'Brien on adapting the story of a young monster

"...eager to see it. The first of six stories about John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records, Where the Wild Things..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...and UnReal. This year, I'd wager on Adam Wingard's Outcast and the reunion of Jody Hill and Danny McBride..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Fox fairies, ultra-violence, and amnesia dominated 2015

"...that got a festival screening, but haven't made it out into the cinematic wilds yet...."

Jan. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Tokyo Tribe

Sion Sono's deranged, delirious hip-hop musical rocks

"...B-Boys of Musashino Saru, who just want to hang out and spend time with their friends and rap to..."

Dec. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Larry Fessenden Collection

Horror's underappreciated auteur on existential terror

"...While Fessenden himself would probably blanch at the comparison,..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Punk Trilogy Gets a Re-release

Penelope Spheeris speaks on her restored punk doc triptych

"...over two decades of snarly, debauched and alternately narcissistic/nihilistic youth movements. And Spheeris' antipop-cultural cinema verité visions are, if..."

July 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Four Films in Search of a Cult

Retro releases and martial arts aim for new crowds

"...those ideas, throws them in the blender, and pours out an eerie eco-warning...."

April 18, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Playboys Baseball Club

Keeping the sandlot field of dreams alive

"...weeks, local musicians have been posting on social media about their favorite teams. Music and baseball are a duet...."

April 3, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Sun Also Rises

Out of tragedy blooms East Cameron Folkcore.

"...Outside a fading yellow house off of Montopolis Drive, the..."

April 3, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...Ransom Center, where the currently featured exhibition is all about Carroll's masterpiece, its origins and iterations, its incarnations in..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVDanger: Alexandra Essoe Gazes Through Starry Eyes

Horror star talks body image, body horror, and audition angst

"...Last year's SXSW Midnighters strand was arguably the strongest..."

Feb. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Good Eye: New Year's Resolutions

Weight, weight, don't tell me

"...to music, read and review writers of color, put out an underground feminist literary journal with a supergroup of..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

The Good Eye: 2014 Top 10s

Counting down what gave a lady hope in 2014

"...flawed and messy as that word entails. Featuring a stand-out performance by Jenny Slate, this corrective to the Knocked-Up-and-Juno..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Music DVDs

"...WKRP in CincinnatiThe Complete Series (Shout! Factory)..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Some People in Austin Need to STFU

Stand-up comedian Katie Pengra offers a lesson in heckling.

"...one hell of a great show, figured I'd hear about it on Facebook the next day...."

Oct. 20, 2014 Arts Post by Katie Pengra

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...with the distant drums of its near-tribal soundtrack and washed-out color palette, plays less like the sometimes cartoonish Von..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fireworks Experience Horrible

"...the fireworks at the Circuit of the Americas turned out to be a horrible, terrible, no good idea. The..."

July 5, 2014 Postmarks

Springsteen’s High Hopes in Houston

Rarities set-list turns on a pair of Hispanic siblings

"...road show for January’s High Hopes, a disc of outtakes, redoes, and covers, is that it’s not really about..."

May 8, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Dave Van Ronk and a Bitter Chill

Remembering the folksinger who inspired 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

"...back at Chronicle Editor Louis Black’s Page Two column about going to see Dave Van Ronk, the folk musician..."

Dec. 19, 2013 Screens Post by Louis Black

Yes Yes: Sundance Announces 2014 Class

Austinites a-plenty in Competition and NEXT slates

"...School of the Arts alum Peter Sattler's Camp X-Ray, about the unlikely friendship between a Guantánamo guard and a..."

Dec. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

ACL Interview: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Your basic sweaty rock & roll revival

"...Jon Spencer: It was about three years where we didn’t play at all, but..."

Oct. 2, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

DVDanger: 'Wolverine Origin'

No, not the terrible movie. The groundbreaking comic, animated.

"...tragedy behind their greatest creation since Captain America thawed out, Wolverine...."

July 20, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: A Weekend on the Crust

Cruising Austin's Eastside with the Gospel Truth, Chumps, and Stza

"...The Gospel Truth vacuumed the carefree vibe out of Hotel Vegas with a gripping 45-minute set. The..."

June 17, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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