The Cuckoo

This 1944-set story humanizes the wastefulness of war.

"...Starring: Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo and Viktor Bychkov. In these hardscrabble times, the premise of The Cuckoo sounds practically..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

DVDanger: Drawn to the Screen

Some animated selections from beyond the House of Mouse

"...There comes a point in every film fan's life when,..."

Dec. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

True Love Cast Out All Evil

New oral history explores the head and mysteries of Austin's psych pioneer

"...Beginning at the forewords (Billy Gibbons, Henry Rollins) and loping over his..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...There’s a famous and brilliantly subversive British-Irish comedy called Father..."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

H. R. Giger, the Dark Star

Full Q&A with documentarian Belinda Sallin

"...In The Third Man, Harry Lyme infamously said the only thing..."

May 23, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Home on the Ranch

Life at Marbridge Ranch defies rehab and assisted living clichés.

"...There are precious few places where, in one afternoon, one..."

April 20, 2001 Features Feature by Stuart Prestidge

SXSW Film Review: Cuckoo

Black Forest fairy tale strains credulity

"...German filmmaker Tillman Singer became a phenom on the festival circuit in 2019 for his experimental demonic horror..."

March 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

House at the End of the Street

This scary-house movie starring Jennifer Lawrence is a strictly middling nonshocker.

"...Not to be confused with The Last House on the Left, The Little Girl Who..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cowboys Versus Witches in The Pale Door

Austinite Aaron B. Koontz's weird, weird West

"...for Austin writer/director Aaron B. Koontz to head on the dusty trail to making his period horror The Pale..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Performances of 2004 That I Ruminate Over After the Dust Has Settled

Heather Barfield lists her favorite stage performances of 2004

"...Instead of shuffling through all the wonderful talent in Austin theatre and curmudgeonly nitpicking technique..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a profound existential adventure, twistedly comic and openly bitter, brought to life by those two maniacs: Peckinpah and Oates. An ugly, vicious film about not very glamorous people engaged in ugly, vicious activities, it’s more black comedy than anything. – Louis Black

"...and Emilio Fernandez. A moment of silence now for the late, great Warren Oates. Too little appreciated, he left..."

Dec. 2, 1999 Movie Review by Louis Black

DVD Watch: 'The Stranger'

Orson Welles directs and stars in noir about a Nazi hiding in plain sight

"...Not to be confused with Camus’ 1942 novel, the 1946 film noir The Stranger (Kino Classics, Blu-ray $34.95)..."

Oct. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Graduates

Once They Were My Students Now They Are

"...Michael On the first day of school, I asked students to write..."

May 25, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Unabridged Billy Joe Shaver

Country outlaw wanted – alive and kickin’

"...two weeks ago about his new album Long in the Tooth, which arrives today along with a 5pm in-store..."

Aug. 5, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Outside the Bachs

Classical sounds new when Austin artists do the composing

"...The Killer Bs must be proud of A-Town. The shades..."

May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Mayor of Washington Boulevard

The first Beach Boys' solo album, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, washes back ashore after more than three decades

"...There's a problem in paradise...."

Aug. 1, 2008 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Iron Man

Longtime local stage phenom Ken Webster has a record to rival that of a Baseball Hall of Famer

"...The lights come up, and there he is, like a..."

April 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...pace. Multiplying faster than partridges in pear trees, during the next five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day,..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Perfect Nanny

French cuckoo-in-the-nest thriller is rarely as good as its lead

"...a true-life crime in New York in 2012 – The Perfect Nanny taps into a very particular kind of..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Hole in the Ground

Something evil in the Irish countryside

"...The myth of the changeling – of the child taken..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: March 14

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• I wonder if all the closet cases at the Vatican will ever be overcome..."

March 14, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Texas School for the Blind’s "I Can’t Hear You, It’s Too Dark in Here"

TSBVI student artists go WEST with an exhibition of their work

"...A note at the entrance to the gallery at the Texas School for..."

May 12, 2017 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

The Hightower Report

Corporations launder money to cheat the IRS; Homeland Security makes for good comedy.

"...These are not more of the infamous Pentagon purchases that..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Emerald Fennell and the Hideous Allure of Saltburn

Director’s aristocratic follow-up to Promising Young Woman opens Austin Film Festival

"...Don't let the fancy mansion fool you. While Emerald Fennell's aristocratic erotic..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Devil's in the Details

Andrew Bujalksi and Cinema Club screen an overlooked John Huston gem

"..."I would beware of those men. They're desperate characters."..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Benda Mask

Untold secrets of Jean Arthur

"...Behind the Mona Lisa cast, the tennis match between eyes and..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

All About Steve

Sandra Bullock plays it kooky in this romantic comedy in which she stalks a CNN cameraman (Bradley Cooper) with whom she's smitten.

"...Qualls, Keith David, Katy Mixon and Howard Hesseman. Whatever the faults of All About Steve – and they are..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Magic Trip

This doc about Ken Kesey's famed bus goes all over the place but never seems to end up anywhere all that revelatory.

"...death in 2001, directors Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney (the latter won an Oscar in 2007 for Taxi to..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

House of Fools

"...Yevgeni Mironov, Yelena Fomina, Marina Politsejmako and Bryan Adams. The esteemed Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky, who made a couple..."

June 13, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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