Roar: The Blood Stays in the Picture

Star John Marshall on lions and the world's craziest home movie

"...carries a stack of family photos: his dad, his brother, his dad's second wife, her daughter, the family's animals...."

April 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hills Have Eyes

This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.

"...Drago and Robert Joy. Wes Craven is best known these days as the man behind the inventive Nightmare on..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Beach

"...and Lars Arentz Hansen. Can we all just get together, once and for all, on the ought-to-be-obvious notion that..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Tales From the Hood

In the wake of Get Out, a classic anthology revisited

"...things: great stories, and a great linking mechanism, chaining the horror together. Tales From the Hood has both, plus..."

April 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part Two

The Editor and Reality, movies about movies

"...There's an old wisdom: If you want an Oscar, make..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mining the Soul

2008's overlooked reissues

"...than great new music? Discovering great old music for the first time. Here is part one of my favorite..."

Jan. 8, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

American Nightmare

A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

"...Two weeks ago on Friday the 13th, as it simultaneously screened during the Austin Film..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...know you're in for a long, hot summer when the weather has hit 100 degrees before the beginning of..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

Did Shearwater Cut the Best Protest Album of 2016?

Jonathan Meiburg calls out new America's scary monsters

"...Legitimate protest albums spring from dire political climates. They're an expression of fear, but also a rallying cry...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

The Last Don

Bob Bullock: The Crusty Boss of Texas Politics

"...The Democratic Lieutenant Governor, who began his political career in..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part One

Four documentaries examine four film legacies

"...Recent documentaries like Jodorowsky's Dune and Lost Soul detail the near-misses on legendary projects that almost happened the way..."

Sept. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Scare Game

Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon on what went wrong with horror and where to go from here

"...set out to make something audacious, you know?" says The Cabin in the Woods director and co-writer Drew Goddard..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Time To Pull Out the Big Red Wines

Check out these big-bodied reds

"...Cool weather is coming, so it's time to check out a..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Food Column by Wes Marshall

The Hightower Report

Obama Must Be Even Bolder Than FDR; and Bringing Fairness to the American Workplace

"...his own privileged class, he jauntily replied, "I welcome their hatred."..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Josh Frank Writes Himself Into the History of the Marx Bros.

There ain't no sanity clause

"...When Josh Frank (the man behind Austin's Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In) was..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Crawl With the Authors of Your Favorite Books

The Texas Book Festival's Lit Crawl gets weird & boozy with 'em

"...known as "literary mayhem at its finest." Here in the ATX, though, we've got little fear of collectively tumbling..."

Oct. 22, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'The NFL Beat': God Bless Commissioner Goodell

Protecting the shield

"...explain why every NFL fan in America is demonizing the man who may be single-handedly preserving the longevity of..."

Dec. 15, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

The Hightower Report

The Bushites lie about WMDs and media conglomeration.

"...up, a lie can be truth -- all because the president says it's so...."

May 30, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

DVDanger: The Battery

Jeremy Gardner and Adam Cronheim swing for the fences

"...Necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes, so are road blocks. That's..."

Sept. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Frightmare', 'The Flesh and Blood Show'

Redemption resurrects the legacy of terror maestro Pete Walker

"...When American audiences think about British horror in the 1970s, they..."

March 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'The NFL Beat': Punt in an Elevator

Punting it up while we're going down

"...Not just any old elevator. An elevator teetering between the ninth and 10th floors of a maximum security prison..."

June 21, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

What the Folk?

The 2006 Folk Alliance washes ashore in Austin – brace the bulkheads!

"...Music associations around the world haven't yet overtaken the global tide of singer-songwriters..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Searching for The Man

"...but a scant time ago that I took to these pages with a fevered pen, up in arms and..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Screens Feature by Jay Hardwig

Sleeping With the Television On

Teething Problems at the Austin Music Network

"...will star George Kennedy, and if you flip on the Austin Music Network, you'll see footage from the Austin..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

The True Story of the Somewhat Lost Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger star in this largely forgotten sequel

"...chainsaw-wielding family – reports of which were to ignite the world's imagination – began to filter out of Central..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...This is a battle, between the pettiness of malice and the naivete of faith. Tore..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: The New Vulcan Gas Company

You heard right, hippie – a new Vulcan Gas Company

"...with an electronic dance music focus had been christened the Vulcan Gas Company after the legendary Congress Avenue psych-rock..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

American Hypocrisy Revealed in The Misogynists

“Self-righteous, smug and wicked.” Onur Tukel pulls no punches in this extended Q&A

"...Onur Tukel isn't pulling any punches. In the results of the 2016 election, he said, "We got..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Man With Susan's Plan

"...Since his directorial debut with the displaced ape-man comedy Schlock! (which featured the director in..."

June 25, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Off the Bookshelf

How to Do It

"...No Mom.com. No Girlfriends' Guides. Instead, you might consult The Treasury of Good Health (1586) or the Compendium of..."

April 30, 1999 Books Feature

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