2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...preparing a batch of unapologetically rock-oriented songs. – Andy LangerSplit Lip Rayfield11:45am, Heineken stage..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

Between Worlds

Cine las Americas Festival of New Latin American Cinema

"...Split Decision: A Dream Deferred..."

April 21, 2000 Screens Feature

Fly Me to the Moon

Scarlett Johansson is the best thing about this kinda-silly, kinda-sweet space-race rom-com

"...Me to the Moon’s own course from script to screen doesn’t seem especially troubled, along the way trading one..."

July 12, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Knock at the Cabin

M. Night Shayamalan takes on the end of the world

"...time is modest and the pace rapid, with the screenplay co-written by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman never..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Spoiler Alert

Jim Parsons gets his Love Story moment in this wonderful tearjerker

"...that a film about a loving couple who is split apart by a disease that isn't AIDS still seems..."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Velvet Underground

The originators of alt music get the artistic biography they deserve

"...or the late Jonas Mekas. His stature and excellent onscreen summations of the day’s downtown demimonde nets him a..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Freaky

Vince Vaughn is screamingly funny in this Freaky Friday horror remix

"...ingenious slayings and one of the best bifurcations on screen since Kimberly Caldwell had to split and leave in..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gone Girl

When a lady vanishes, David Fincher holds the moral compass.

"...I say nightmarishly because nearly the whole of this screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling corkscrew of a novel..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Index to Idioms

Deb Margolin's Index to Idioms played with our assumptions about familiar expressions and used episodes from her life to give them new meanings

"...playwright, performer, and founding member of the New York-based Split Britches Theater Company brought vitality to the performing action..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

What a Girl Wants

"...later. Instead, matriculation to cotton-candy comedies on the big screen and only very small tweaks in the personas both..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Phone Booth

"...may, Phone Booth’s kineticism keeps us glued to the screen the whole time (except, maybe, for the anticlimactic "confession"..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kazaam

"...their celebrity from the playing field to the silver screen, but, currently, Hollywood seems to be suffering from a..."

July 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Raising Cain

De Palma once again blatantly borrows from other movies without shame and rubs your nose in every camera trick imaginable, but he also does something of which he's seldom been guilty: He ignores the fundamental principles of suspense.

"...gear, forcing De Palma – who is also the screenwriter – to throw in exposition and explanations at an..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

We Learned It by Watching Movies

A film primer for the best in wicked entertainment

"...In celebration of all things immoral and corrupt, the Screens team has offered up a rogue's gallery of degenerate..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Off the Record

Local songwriter Johnny Goudie takes the stand while Trailer Space Records preps for Record Store Day

"...the time, Susan Otten, awoke to find her head split open, blood seeping onto the white sofa. Antonetti ultimately..."

April 15, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Karibu Ethiopian Restaurant

Austin welcomes a new Ethiopian restaurant

"...are adorned with Ethiopian crafts and art, and the big-screen TV is on silent soccer if there's a game..."

April 3, 2009 Food Review by Mick Vann

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...Man, and Steve Hunt at Art Don't Pay for screen-printing our T-shirts upfront. That doesn't include the gas we..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Sangre de Toro continued this campaign with a prolific, ear-splitting war on the senses. If we're lucky, former Big..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

The Man-Machine: Kraftwerk Materialize at ACL Live ... Or Did They!?

German synthesizer pioneers pop in 3-D

"...house donned 3-D glasses to visualize four men in green-screen-looking suits standing at space voyage consoles out front of..."

June 28, 2022 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...big part in the list. Sandra Bullock brings her big-screen comedy The Lost City for its world premiere as..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Weekday Events to Make It a Craft Night, Movie Night, Trivia Night, and More

There's also some events during the day

"...about their attention drifting away and into mischief because onscreen will be Hop, an animated holiday movie featuring a..."

April 11, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Spider Sculptures, Gore Feasts, and More Arts Events

Feed your art habit with these recommended events for the week

"...bleeds true bad-taste bona fides for this blood-and-guts presentation: Screening on Austin’s “last single-screen cinema” will be two deep-cut..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

'The Main Treatment Options'

Short Story Contest: First place

"...She and I once split a pint of vodka and drove around town with..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Books Feature by Katie F. Perry

Border Crossing

AFS Essential Cinema presents 3 Mexicanas en Hollywood

"...most of her time making Mexican films. Jurado successfully split her time in both countries, while Vélez only made..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Thanksgiving Orphans Rejoice: There Are Local Options to Save Your Holiday

Booze is one holiday essential that doesn’t grow on a farm

"...whole Baroque BBQ Thanksgiving thing, check out their Thanksgiving Split, an unholy but weirdly delicious sounding concoction consisting of..."

Nov. 20, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Beach Hair Redux: There Is an App for That

Bring beach hair home with wave-enhancing products

"...Nexxus Pro Mend Split End Binding Curl Defining Creme Gel is a leave-in..."

July 17, 2012 Design Post by Anne Harris

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...following program notes were originally printed in conjunction with screenings put on by CinemaTexas, a graduate-student-run film society that..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in these voluntary programs to accept contribution limits. The split occurs over whether contributions limits should apply to candidates..."

May 3, 2002 Column

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...Rocha, adding that it's a not-for-profit undertaking and will screen at the Southwest School of Art & Craft in..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Bigger, Better, Smarter

San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?

"...The city/suburban split is about 50-50, much like Austin's, abetted there as..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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