SXSW Film Reviews

"...Mandy Lane, sets his debut film Wake in one of the scariest of all movie locations: a roadside motel...."

March 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Festival: 'Godspeed'

AFF film review

"...It's always a relief to kick off a festival (any festival) with a seriously great film,..."

Oct. 22, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

35 Denton (Fifth Annual)

Little D’s music festival remains fun and a bit funky

"...all eyes are on Austin. I saw a window of opportunity in the crush of local events and took..."

March 12, 2013 Music Post by Zoe Cordes Selbin

'Possession Arrow': Badgley->Razook

"...Faster than a University of Texas exit from the Big Dance, the 2006-2007 NCAA..."

March 28, 2007 Sports Post by John Razook

The Big Turnaround (and Who's to Thank for It)

"...few humble suggestions for the team as a sort of antidote against what was quickly becoming a fruitless season...."

Jan. 12, 2007 Sports Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Public Notice: Epiphany!

A new City Council for the new year

"...Today, Jan. 5, is the 12th day of Christ­mas. Tonight is the magical Twelfth Night (check our..."

Jan. 6, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Capital T Theatre's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

This production of Edward Albee's play shows that hubris and catastrophe are as much a part of America now as in ancient Greece

"...a goat, Stevie relates her reaction to the idea of the brilliant, Pritzker Prize-winning architect to whom she has..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

SXSW Music Review: Abhi the Nomad

Third-culture kid sweats up some Childish Gambino

"...Glover. Recently signed to Tommy Boy Music, the 24-year-old son of an Indian diplomat, who moved to Austin last..."

March 17, 2018 Music Post by Clara Wang

Slipknot Devastates COTA

Iowa’s malevolent sons blaze and burn

"...under his dead skin mask to a packed Circuit of the Americas on Wednesday night...."

Sept. 3, 2015 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

Even with an uneven staging, Paul Rudnick's biblical comedy is a fabulous play

"...This is the story of Adam and Steve, the first people. They live in..."

June 25, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Voces de Vivo: Voces de la Cultura Latina

Four very different short dramas that share a similar sense of wonder about life

"...as teachers. An older woman who hears the voice of Jesus when she's at church. A hope that endures..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

In Memoriam: George Wilkerson

Remembering Esther's Follies' first sketch-writing superstar

"...since we're talking 40 years ago – then much of the chuckling, chortling, and guffawing you did was thanks..."

June 17, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Filmmakers’ Waking Nightmares

They're just making a movie. What could possibly go wrong?

"...Some might say, considering the levels of complexity involved and the sheer number of things that..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Mysteries Unraveled

Part two of Louis Black's interview with novelist John Irving

"...hidden by trees that you never forget. Things happen, often big things. You remember certain moments forever. Sometimes alone..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Gotta Get Up

Harry Nilsson, the Pussy Cat who roared

"...The armchair psychology of musicians, especially those we ascribe genius status to, used..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Neorealism, Now and Then, in Troubled Lands

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 4

"...Society premiered its first Middle Eastern film program, Children of Abraham/Ibrahim, as part of the Essential Cinema series. Yet..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Drug War Blowback

Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny

"...stiff winds and heavy rain, and Monday's high temperature of 74 registered just before 12:30am, as the mercury continued..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Two Towers, Six Years, and 16 Millimeters

The remarkable journey – and uncertain toll – of Steve Bilich's 'Native New Yorker'

"...The twin stories of Steve Bilich and the film he made are, quite..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Stranded

Karen Bernstein's 'Are the Kids Alright?' examines the state of mental health care in Texas

"...notwithstanding her genetic imprint, she's essentially irrelevant to her son these days, because no one has seen her for..."

July 9, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Bring It

'Soldier of Cinema' Werner Herzog unloads on the state of short film and the ancient Greek drama that is WWF

"...film by Les Blank and on the losing side of a bet with Errol Morris), he has shot some..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

An Austin Original

Celebrating the Life of Otto Hofmann,1918-2001

"...abundant with rich soil, and steeped in the legacy of Otto Jurgen Hofmann, 1918-2001. Aware of the fragrance of..."

June 8, 2001 Features Feature by Robyn Turner

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...-- artfully enchanting blockbusters which whisked us through worlds of pure imagination. These otherworldly adventures -- which include Raiders..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Clandestino: Manu Chao

"...Against a sonic backwash of beach life – waves, children laughing –..."

June 8, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Willie Nelson’s 69 Minutes

First of three sold-out nights proves the still is still moving

"...at a stageside tech outpost read “70 minutes.” Willie Nelson left exactly one minute on the table when he..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Backmasking

by Harold Whit Williams

"...pure pop heroes Cotton Mather. With its compelling connection of musical and poetic worlds against the rural backdrop of..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Feature by Greg Beets

Jesus Christ Superstar: At Once Awful and Great

Ada Calhoun critiques Austin Musical theatre's staging of Jesus Christ Superstar

"...laser lights and a guitar solo suggest the opening of a Metallica concert. And really, that's not far off,..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun

What We're Listening to Right Now

Ayo Tamz, Blushing, Whookilledkenny, Chief Cleopatra, and more have us dialed in

"...dembow-drenched bilingual tracks since 2019, but the Texan branches off into her "alt-pop princess phase" with latest EP, Sober..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Music Column by E. Ryan Ellis

Checking In: Eimaral Sol Emancipates

“The only option is to survive. This is my life. This is my purpose”

"...the top, then, reside the frank, womanly, puckish stylings of Laramie Pouncy on 2019’s Sol Soliloquies. As “a mural..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Film Festival: Sympathy For the Devil

The true story of rich people playing Satanist

"...What is the Process? After 100 minutes of Sympathy For the Devil: The True Story of the..."

Nov. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Amazing Grace

Two nights with the incomparable Aretha Franklin

"...Words fail anyone attempting to describe the singing of Aretha Franklin, a standard this writer won’t be exceeding..."

March 17, 2019 SXSW Post by Michael King

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