Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...Who said that you had to get rid of all the toxic..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Local Gaming News-Bites

Supporting the scene has never been so easy

"...local bands. There's a whole range of artistic endeavors that make Austin a creative nexus and also need your..."

June 29, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Cult Film Hero Don Coscarelli Turns a Page

Phantasm director discusses his new memoir

"...the memoirs and true-life “How I Did It” books that reveal the many agonies and occasional ecstasies of being..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Everything Went Black: Five Hits From Hell

What to watch this Halloween

"...Thanksgiving and X-mas holiday treacle. (Plenty of time for that coming up.)..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Ssssssssssteam Heat

Memories of Soap Creek Saloon

"...The news that Fable Records is reissuing Steam Heat’s 30-year-old album, Austin..."

Aug. 19, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Blink-182 Bring the Banter to “Austin Titty Limits” and More From ACL Fest’s Friday Kickoff

Chris Stapleton twangs and bangs, Leon Bridges grooves

"...ACL Festival 2024 opened to mid-Nineties temps – that’s fall in Austin, y'all – and performances ranging from..."

Oct. 5, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Texas Songwriting Legend Robert Earl Keen Announces Retirement From the Road

The roots musician will tour through September

"...Earl Keen, a titan of Texas roots music, announced that after more than 30 years he’s hanging up his..."

Jan. 16, 2022 Music Post by Robert Penson

Panic Fest Review: The Whooper Returns

Metahorror deals with the trauma of having your life as a movie

"...Stories outlive reality, even when that reality is tragedy. This was re-enforced in March, when..."

April 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

After a Fashion

"...RED-RIBBON DINING I'd have to say that the most fun I've had at a charity event..."

May 23, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...Sundance and Slamdance have had to go virtual). But that doesn't mean we're done with some of the selections..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Lost Art of Being Offensive

Swimming in satire with cartooning documentary Mr. Fish

"...Texas has a staff editorial cartoonist. For Pablo Bryant, that's not just a problem for newspapers, but a reflection..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Archive: The Charlie Kaufman Canon

As Anomalisa opens in Austin, we revisit interviews and reviews

"...most talented screenwriter of his generation, or any generation? That’s a question we pondered a few years back in..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: 'The Incredible Melting Man'/'Swamp Thing'

Morphing, melting and transmogrification clog up your screens

"..."Oh, I'm OK with being me!" on us? Seriously, that leads to Twilight and that can stop right there...."

Aug. 3, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

It's a Wonderful Life, 70s Christmas Special, Starring the Fonz

Rob Nash's It's a Wonderful Life, 70s Christmas Special, Starring the Fonz is a masterful melding of Seventies television and Frank Capra's film, but unless one has studied either subject in depth, the meeting proves perplexing

"...are many blanket assumptions surrounding Christmas, and one is that everyone is familiar with Frank Capra's holiday classic It's..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Reissues

"...Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) three days of amnesia, so that U.N.C.L.E. secrets would remain safe -- even under the..."

June 27, 1997 Music Review

Rob Nash: Bedford Falls, by way of Television City

Austin solo performer Rob Nash is moving to Los Angeles, and as a parting Christmas gift, he's created a holiday special that never was:It's a Wonderful Life, 70s Christmas Special, Starring the Fonz

"...one a sugar-plum vision of the boob-tube holiday special that never was, It's a Wonderful Life, 70s Christmas Special,..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Untold Tale of Stuntwomen

Director April Wright is setting the history of Hollywood straight

"..."They're all similar in that they're all aspects of cinema history from different points..."

Sept. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sloth; I Love Led Zeppelin; Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution; TV's Grooviest Variety Shows of the '60s and '70s

"...Cinco Puntos Press, 95 pp., $12.95TV's Grooviest Variety Shows of the '60s and '70s..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Cindy Widner

Postmarks

Further Lost Austin fallout and enviro-rhetoric from our readers.

"...Was it guilt that prompted y'all to put out an "old Austin" tribute?..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Column

Lucky Grandma

Tsai Chin is one bad grandma in this glorious, unconventional noir

"...auntie about you). She's the kind of old lady that will haggle with a rival gang when procuring their..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Light It Up

Director Lizzie Borden revisits her incendiary 1983 feminist classic, Born in Flames, showing as part of the Austin Film Society's series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s."

"...and something of an albatross. 1983's Born in Flames shows Borden in full glory, a feminist filmmaker bursting with..."

June 22, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood Quantum

Pioneering First Nation zombie film rips the genre away from traditional hands

"...Quebec government and lingering beliefs of French-Canadian colonialism – that drove the actions of the QPP. Decades later, First..."

May 8, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Austin Music Awards, a Black Rock Maverick, and More Crucial Concerts

Our recommended shows for the week ahead

"...Maas (8:30pm) and guitarist Christian Bland (7:30pm). The intimate show, live at the LuxeArt Hangar atop the SoCo hill,..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Catfish, outlaws, and armadillos

"...Lake and Bullfrog Pond are included in the stockings that happen every few weeks. Children fish for free, but..."

May 2, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...Night Moves: Pop Music in the Late '70sby Don Breithaupt and Jeff Breithaupt..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Soundscapes, Bat Books, and More Arts Events for the Week

Things to do when you're not staring at an interloping moon

"...present on “the very queerest and most influential episodes that aired on the small screen.” What shows will they..."

April 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Gay Place: Don't Stop, Get It Get It

We don't ever want to hear you complain that there is not enough LGBTQ up in this town

"...with her new play set in a Florida Keys '70s/'80s gay bar (that sounds an awful lot like some..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...Ethan: My knee-jerk answer to that is I started professionally acting when I was 13,..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Wanna See the Season 3 Premiere of Industry Early? Better Get Yourself to ATX TV Festival.

Austin fest will also premiere Julio Torres’ new HBO show Fantasmas

"...That’s right: The upcoming ATX TV Festival will debut the..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

When the Sixties Was Happening on FM Radio

AFS Doc Night: 'Radio Unnameable'

"...sign-on signaling the start of Radio Unnameable, his midnight-to-dawn show on WBAI. Sitting in a cluttered, windowless space with..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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