Bill & Ted Face the Music

Can we all finally just be excellent to each other?

"...Now here's the deal. Rockwell wasn't blind to the ills of..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch Partners with Austin’s Regenerative Ag Experts TerraPurezza

The new farm plans include Texas sunflowers and hungry pigs

"...Tina and Orion Weldon, the dynamic duo behind the..."

July 21, 2020 Food Post by Lina Fisher

Coming Attractions

Our guide to which Austin-area cinemas (may) re-open in July

"...seems to be when the rest are going to start following suit...."

June 30, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

The transcendent history of one of the greatest musicals ever

"...international productions in Japan. The point consistently worked on here is how the universal themes of the musical transcend..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

A Story of Twin Sisters, Austin Real Estate, and Salad Dressing

SASS (Season All Stuff Sauce) forced to start over after their rent increased 350%

"...600 cases of dressing for H-E-B. "It's not like starting over," Carol said. "It is starting over."..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Food Feature by Roxy Bonafont

AISD Trustees Push Back on Campus Closure Plan

“When we start messing with people’s schools, we start messing with their communities”

"...try and address all the emotion around possibilities in here?" asked Trustee Ann Teich. "When we start messing with..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

If Beale Street Could Talk

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins adapts Baldwin's tale of love and racism

"...inseparable. From the first moment they walk into frame, there is an effortlessness about the way they are entwined...."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Do We Really Need More Superhero Movies?

We asked local artists if we're approaching Peak Cape anytime soon

"...So here comes Infinity War, as reviewed here by Richard Whittaker,..."

April 25, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Finding Your Feet

Upper class British rom-com plays for laughs.

"...learns to love and lose again, and discovers the inherent value of family and friends. No, it’s not Woody..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.

"...to have no interest in a dialogue about God’s whereabouts amidst the terrors of the contemporary world. Rather, its..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Changing Your Name and Gender Marker in Trump's America

A guide to doing it yourself and where to find help

"...the clerk asked after my intake. “They’re about to start.” My jaw dropped. Within the hour I was upstairs..."

March 3, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Maddox Price

The Great Wall

Matt Damon protects the Chinese from lizards

"...savage nemesis. It’s hard to say what’s more distracting here: the actor’s lackadaisical commitment to the role or the..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Passengers

Bound for a distant planet, two persons awake prematurely

"...land wide of cinema’s space-odyssey brass rings – it’s nowhere near as soulful or questing as 2001 or Moon..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Live Election Coverage

Is it over yet?

"...answers tonight. Follow the Chronicle news team’s election coverage here and on Twitter: #ACvotes...."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

The Land

Teen skaters get caught up in the drug world

"...the cracked and dangerous streets, the abandoned buildings, and wherever else they can ride their skateboards, occasionally making a..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Doc chronicles a shameful chapter in San Antonio history

"...you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, so here it is: The crime never happened, the Texas legal..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Getting Around Austin

Explore Downtown without a car and without getting lost

"...Fifth) from July 7-9. If you're headed this way, here are your options for getting to the hotel and..."

June 22, 2016 Columns Post by Annamarya Scaccia

Don Verdean

Fourth comedy feature from the pair who made Napoleon Dynamite

"...gets the best one about creating a Holy Land here in the States, where it belongs) are trampled by..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Creed

Stallone's Rocky trains Apollo Creed's son in worthy franchise reboot

"...now, with Creed, whose very title signals a new start and unwillingness to settle for being simply Rocky VII...."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bloodsucking Bastards

Cubicle horrors: Vampires bloody the workplace

"...horror in equal measure. It’s not quite Severance, and there’s a serious debt to Shaun of the Dead here,..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

6 Years

Filmed-in-Austin relationship drama captures local culture

"...Austin (after 2013’s A Teacher) is another romantic drama. Whereas the earlier film highlighted a relationship between a teacher..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mat Johnson: Black & White & Read All Over

Our interview with the Houston-based author

"...of the novel Loving Day, which we've reviewed right here, just out via the Spiegel & Grau imprint of..."

June 18, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Pro Tips

What to see, where to be, and how to relax

"...Let’s start with some math: SXSW throws more than 150 feature..."

March 4, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Inherent Vice

Highbrow mixes with lowbrow in Paul Thomas Anderson's screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel.

"...These tales, they usually start with a woman, a woman in trouble. Larry “Doc”..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Need for Speed

Somewhat fast but seldom furious, this is an adrenaline junkie’s wet dream that stars Aaron Paul.

"...in Bullitt appears near the outset of the film.) Here, the loner is Tobey Marshall (Paul), a blue-collar mechanic..."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Her

In the near future, Theodore upgrades his operating system and subsequently falls in love; Spike Jonze conceives the romance, Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlet Johansson sell it.

"...still gets up every day and goes to work, where he ghostwrites love letters for other people. What Theodore..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

For a Good Time Call …

The Apatowian bromance has found its reverse-gender equivalent in this comedy about two gals who enter the phone-sex biz.

"...phone-sex operator. With entrepreneurial zest, Lauren convinces Katie to start their own independent shop together pleasuring gentleman callers. Business..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Things Not To Fear: 1) The Reaper, 2) The World Horror Convention in Austin

An Interview with Convention co-chairs Nate Southard and Lee Thomas

"...As promised yesterday, here's that interview with Nate Southard and Lee Thomas, the..."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

I Am Number Four

This filmed adaptation of the first book in the proposed Lorien Legacies series follows the tribulations of an alien refugee on Earth.

"...the film – one of those showboaty numbers that starts in outer space and ends on, I don't know,..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Solitary Man

In this small-scale drama, Michael Douglas plays a disgraced businessman and inveterate skirt-chaser who makes one bad decision after another.

"...his downward spiral at the time of the movie’s start (that is, apart from a short preamble that is..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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