The Boy Next Door

Jennifer Lopez stars in this brazenly dumb MILF thriller.

"...incandescent Judy Garland standing in a moonlit window in the 1944 screen musical Meet Me in St. Louis, wistfully..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Vera Farmiga is a knockout in this otherwise predictable and emotionally manipulative story about the horror of the German concentration camps.

"...by: Mark Herman. Starring: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Amber Beattie, Richard Johnson, Sheila Hancock and..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Cure

"...a curious fusing of Philadelphia and Stand By Me, The Cure marks the big-screen directorial debut of thirtysomething's Peter..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Blood in the Face

"...Renato Carpentieri. Without a zombie in sight, this is the best horror film in years. Co-directors Anne Bohlen (Roger..."

June 21, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Summer House

"...Threlfall. Jeanne Moreau. Jeanne Moreau. Jeanne Moreau. She is the soul of this movie and its raison d'être. So..."

Jan. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Safety of Objects

"...Klein. A guitar. An antique chest. A Barbie doll. These are some of the objects that fill (but do..."

March 14, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bubble Boy

"...Brian George and Patrick Crenshaw. It's a shame if the controversy surrounding Bubble Boy distracts people from what a..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...What fills the holes dug by lies; what breeds in dank silence;..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

The Book of Henry

Abandon all hope ye who purchase a ticket

"...There are many reasons we go to the movies. To..."

June 16, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Little Traitor

Set in the British Mandate of Palestine in the summer of 1947, The Little Traitor stars Alfred Molina and tells its story through the eyes of a young innocent.

"...Alfred Molina, Ido Port, Rami Heuberger, Gilya Stern and Theodore Bikel. Attempting to understand the complex origins of the..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bachelor

"...a nuptials-phobic bachelor who breaks into a sweat at the words “I do”? Sweet, clean-cut, boy-next-door Chris O'Donnell as..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...kicking off its 2025 Film & TV Festival with The Studio, the new Apple TV+ half-hour series from Seth..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...Readers and fans of the literary, you might want to grab a napkin before..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Holiday Classics Hit the Paramount

'Love Actually,' 'White Christmas,' and more warm fuzzies for December

"...Even the Grinch might find something worth smiling about during the..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Seven of the Best With Owen Wilson

From small-town crook to the ultimate speedster, the most unmissable roles of the Texas actor's career

"...There's an old saying in cinema: "One for the studio,..."

April 7, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Summer Stock Austin's The Addams Family

The company's young artists infuse the musical incarnation of those spooky, ooky Addamses with fresh blood by the buckets

"...We knew that they were creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky – their..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Behold a Pale Horse: the White Horse Turns Ten with No Signs of an Apocalypse

A look back at the early days of the “black sheep” of Austin honky-tonks

"...record and Merle Haggard never sang a ballad about the challenges of finishing a masters degree...."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Post by Gary Lindsey

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Wednesday

The buzzy, the brave, the thrash-able twee-pop

"...Southwest’s first Music week since 2019 began to radiate the hype and hysteria it’s known for with Phoebe Bridgers..."

March 17, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Night He Came to Fantastic Fest

Genre fest announces Halloween for opening night

"...is coming early to Austin this year – or rather, Halloween is. Fantastic Fest has announced that the revamp..."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Are We on the Edge?

In The Bateman Trilogy, about a family of working-class suburbanite Texans, Ken Webster reveals a fine playwright's voice to go along with his strong directorial style

"...The Bateman TrilogyKen Webster..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Finding God in the Gumbo

Once in the Ninth Ward and now in the Hill Country, the Smoking for Jesus Ministry serves up Real New Orleans Style fare with a side of spiritual nourishment

"...Katrina, decimating your entire community and way of life? The answer for one New Orleans East church group was:..."

May 4, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...and gave me a piercing look. Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Unhook the Stars

"...Clint Howard. Nick Cassavetes, son of John, directs his mother (Rowlands) in a film that could easily be mistaken..."

April 4, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Epiphanies for the Blind

Who's Teaching Who at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired?

"...for a carnival-like parade of odd couples and unexplainables, the bizarre sights that cause my occasionally visiting father to..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

The Man in the Moon

"...Directed by: Robert Mulligan. Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Emily Warfield, Gail Strickland, Sam Waterston, Jason London and..."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let the Right One In

This multi-award-winning Swedish film might be summarized as a vampire tween romance, but that cheap and tawdry sum-up does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gem. A discussion of the adaptation follows the film.

"...Ah, young love. Whatever would we do without it? The multi-award-winning Swedish film Let the Right One In could..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Universal High School Experience

Sarah Dessen's latest novel is 'The Moon and More'

"...a bestselling author of young adult novels? With typical Southern modesty spiced with just the faintest whiff of irony,..."

Sept. 26, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

The Dropout Problem

Not students, but teachers – AISD struggles to retain qualified educators

"...Two weeks before the first day of school in the Austin Independent School..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...not in a meteorological sense but a literary one. The Texas Book Festival has released the full list of..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Sanctuary Cities and the Ways We Fight for Human Rights

When community matters more than the law

"...On the Sunday morning after Donald Trump won the presidential election,..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Victoria Rossi

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