Stranger Things Blasts Local Synth Quartet Survive Into Orbit

Scoring the Netflix summer hit

"...subterranean scenes. Two weeks later, viral horror/science-fiction Netflix serial Stranger Things permanently altered the trajectory of Survive when two..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

I Like to Watch: Better Things Than Stranger Things

There are other worlds than these

"...Maybe that’s why Stranger Things feels like it was written by a committee..."

July 31, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

The Little Stranger

A very British ghost story takes unexpected turns

"...well-received 2009 novel of the same name chronicles the stranger things afoot at a decaying Georgian mansion owned by..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

If You Have Ghosts: The Haunting of The Little Stranger

Director Lenny Abrahamson talks post-war Gothic

"...with us. That's the tragic message of The Little Stranger, Lenny Abrahamson's tale of unsettled souls in the crumbling..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Stranger in the Kingdom

"...the story's actual, unacknowledged defendant. There are plenty of things to recommend this film, but similarity to To Kill..."

June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Thursday

Despite storms, we caught 03 Greedo, Sobs, Tangerine Dream, and more

"...tweaking The X-Files theme turned out to be their Stranger Things remix. To the last holdouts, maybe 75 from..."

March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

Page Two: Things Blow Up for No Reason

Still weekly, free, and a little stunned, we enter our 25th year

"...Time passed; things changed. It was strange and it was wonderful. It..."

July 21, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Stranger Than Paradise

Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own

"...the afternoons and evenings. ATP's reportedly one of three things the legendary producer and guitarist openly endorses, the others..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Who Is Stella Burden, and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Her?

When the Rude Mechs do a show about acting, they find madness in the Method

"...her "approach" has led this theatre collective – no stranger to long, strange trips – on one of its..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Things We Keep: Musing on the EZ-D

Musings on the EZ-D

"...$10, a strain on JoAnne's student budget. She's no stranger at the video/DVD rental store, so when I told..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Point Austin: Strange Bedfellows, Stranger Politics

"Efficiency audit" petition campaign could use an independent audit

"..."Liberty City," free of property taxes – and as things turned out, of a sewer system, of police or..."

Aug. 10, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Remembrance of Things Weird

Nancy Higgins' 'Viva Les Amis'

"...strike up a seriously meaningful conversation with a total stranger, who, more often than not, was a) a tenured..."

April 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

What a Longer, Stranger Trip It's Been

Jim Van Bebber on 'The Manson Family'

"...we] ought to make a film that included the things that they couldn't show in the 1977 TV movie..."

April 8, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Strange Bedfellows, Stranger Enemies

"...we can set. Enough! Please let me know how things went after I left...."

July 19, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Summer of 84

Kids vs. serial killer, Eighties-style

"...probably had more to do with that than actual stranger danger, so it’s no surprise that the current round..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Runaway Jury

John Grisham courtroom thumper marches to a familiar tune.

"...course to influence the verdict? – but, then again, stranger things have happened under the blind eye of justice...."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Who will win this epic new battle royal as Godzilla faces King Ghidorah?

"...tortuous mash-up of the film’s human characters doing inane things ineptly that serves as the movie's plot is almost..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The New Mutants

The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen

"...of the original lineup are in place: Sam Guthrie (Stranger Things' Heaton) aka fast-flying Cannonball; Rahne Sinclair (Williams), the..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hellboy

Hellboy is back, and this time he's R-rated

"...Hunt and The Storm and the Fury cycles. Hellboy (Stranger Things' Harbour) is an agent of the Bureau of..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Gift Guide: Pop-Culture Collectors

Alternative gifts for the Game of Thrones and Stranger Things fan in your life

Dec. 8, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

White House Announces South by South Lawn Lineup

Event features Leonardo DiCaprio, Lumineers, Stranger Things cast

"...musical group the Lumineers, and the cast of Netflix’s Stranger Things...."

Sept. 26, 2016 SXSW Post by Tucker Whatley

Shut In

Naomi Watts stars in ho-hum thriller

"...dutiful mother, caring for her surviving stepson, 18-year-old Stephen (Stranger Things’ Heaton), who was left paralyzed and cognitively vegetative..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Daddy

"...suddenly becoming a North American dinner staple, but hey, stranger things have happened. Sandler plays Sonny Koufax, a New..."

June 25, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paving the Way for Queers in Comedy

Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher bring queer comedy to SXSW

"...Southwest internationally known for being at forefront of great things, I made the decision to start this year’s festival..."

March 16, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Jarvis Mayhem

Crime Month: In the Dark Podcast

Why did a boy's murder go unsolved for 27 years? Just listen.

"...Stranger Things has it right: The Eighties really were a..."

July 11, 2019 Arts Post by Laura Jones

Sorting the Family's Dirty Laundry

AFS Documentary Tour revisits Alan Berliner's 1991 film Intimate Stranger

"...grandfather and the subject of his second film, Intimate Stranger (1991) – as a "nothing and a nobody," not..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Q&A Hole: How Does Something Get "Overrated"?

With Lauren Weinstein, Tim Doyle, Pat Dean, Mark Finn, and more

"...care about the concept. It involves thinking about cultural things in layers of superficiality with judgment on top. But..."

Sept. 20, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Imagine Me & You

A traditional romantic comedy with a lesbian twist, Imagine Me and You has its charms, but for a movie about loving radically, it sure plays it safe.

"...Ensemble Romantic-Comedy Scenario No. 3: Broody bride sees attractive stranger at the wedding, questions the possibility of Love at..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Friday Night

A woman has a fling with a stranger in this thoughtful French import.

"...the movie opens, we see Laure (Lemercier) packing her things into boxes for the move, deciding what to keep..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It

This Stephen King adaptation floats with the best of them

"...lack of sleep, just as the source material did? Stranger Things have happened. It, based on King’s 1986 bestseller..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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