Fantastic Fest Review: The Endless

Spring team head on a familiar but reinvented roadtrip

"...wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The Endless, the third feature from genre-bending innovators Justin Benson..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Back to the Scene of the Crime With Heat 2

Austin author Meg Gardiner and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Mann team up for a literary sequel to the classic heist flick

"...Meg Gardiner has done it all. The Austin-based novelist has practiced law and taught writing; lived..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Other Worlds Austin Hits The Dead Center

Sci-fi and horror film fest adds centerpiece film and more

"...Other Worlds Austin was founded as a science-fiction film festival:..."

Oct. 20, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Song of Sway Lake

Period family drama is evocative, if sometimes lacking in clarity

"...While not always dramatically successful, The Song of Sway Lake earns big points for originality...."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Disaster Artist

The making of one of the most inept films ever made

"...It’s called the Citizen Kane of bad movies. A WTF film experience..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Alamo South Pulls Out All the Stops For Closing Bash

Cramming everything you love about the Drafthouse into one night

"...and foreign fare, merci beaucoup? Can't get enough of them genre kicks? Whatever you are, whatever you love, the..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Ballad of Big Star

A work-in-progress premiere and supergroup performance pay tribute to the cult band

"...Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, a new documentary about the seminal power-pop band's thwarted career and ongoing resurgence...."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Shaun of the Dead

This "romantic comedy … with zombies" has a note-perfect mix of humor, horror, love, and death.

"...Wilton. You don’t have to be a fan of the zombie epics of George Romero (Night of the Living..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wild, Wild World of Susan Tyrrell

Forbidden Zone director at the Alamo on Sunday

"...One of our favorite Oscar-nominated actors, the legendary Susan Tyrrell, will emerge from the shadows Sunday..."

April 10, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Talking About Addiction Until the Head Begins to Bleed a Bit

It comes down to Bukowski – and Bukowski doesn't come out well

"...Fight – that I was having some trouble finding the fight in me...."

Oct. 13, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ryan Gosling and 'Arrested Development' Reincarnate the Trailer Park

The SXSW staple blog returns with Richard Linklater and more

"...All throughout the South by Southwest Film Festival, we brought you daily..."

April 5, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

BlackBerry Retro-Engineers the Rise and Fall of the Original Smartphone

Matt Johnson's tells the tale of a very Canadian tech crunch

"...notice that he is not Aaron Sorkin, and that the paradigm-shifting CEOs of BlackBerry, the Canadian director's third film,..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Julian Towers

Tool Asphyxiates the Erwin Center

“Supposedly, Austin,” announced Keenan. “Work on it”

"...Tool avoids the spotlight. Thus, it came as no surprise Tuesday night..."

Jan. 22, 2020 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Rolling With the Punches

The Thrilla in the Tortilla continues

"...The 16 breakfast taco masters in our breakfast taco championship..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

The Rocky Horror Show

Doctuh Mistuh's visit to the Frankenstein place is delightfully inclusive for die-hard fans and virgins alike

"...The first time's always a bit awkward, isn't it? Especially..."

July 3, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

AFF2012: 'Francophrenia (Or Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)'

In James Franco's mind, no one can hear you scream

"...one thing we've been saying for years: Franco is the closest thing to another James Dean as we're ever..."

Oct. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Faster Than Sound: Unpacking Harry Styles' Austin Run With the Professor Teaching a Class on Him

Texas State's Dr. Louie Dean Valencia offers a crash course in the Harry-verse

"...Prepare for an influx of feather boas and bell-bottoms later this month. September 25 through..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Veronica Mars, All Grown Up at the ATX Television Fest

Series creator Rob Thomas explains why the cult show has to change

"...– Kristen Bell's 21st century teen sleuth waded into the deeper, darker end of the pool, most notably in..."

June 7, 2019 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Film Q&A: John Lee Hancock on The Highwaymen

Texas director retells the Bonnie and Clyde story from the cops’ view

"...see Bonnie and Clyde as devil-may-care heroes careening through the South and making chumps of John Q. Law. It’s..."

March 9, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Exploring The Endless With Benson and Moorhead

Filmmakers talk science, magic, and bickering brothers

"...been hearing that a lot about his new film, The Endless. "That quote came up very recently," he said...."

April 20, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Saving Souls at the Electric Church

New venue the Electric Church converts local psychics, and Samuel Grey Horse recounts his mule variations

"...Strange things are happening at the old Jesus Is Alive Ministries on Cesar Chavez...."

June 2, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Difficulties of Dining With Kids

Is the restaurant industry making a bad situation worse?

"...Twitter and nursing my first mug of coffee of the day, I scrolled past a missive from a single,..."

March 3, 2017 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Summoning The Witch

Writer/director Robert Eggers on making a historical horror

"...The past is a terrifying place, and the dark, devil-plagued..."

Feb. 18, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All Power to the People

AFS Doc Nights brings out the Black Panthers

"...couldn't get out. But in my space, I was the king," says former Panther Wayne Pharr. The emotion recalled..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Hunted'/'The Grapes of Death'

Horror auteur Rollin abandons vampires for mental decline

"...Rollin seemed to have no North American peer: But the two latest releases from his cinematic crypt reveal the..."

April 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wonder of Weird: The Residents

$100k box sets, collectibles, and four decades of anonymity

"...Tomorrow night, in what could be the most inspired booking of the year, San Francisco’s avant-garde..."

Jan. 30, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Bedside Manner: Hide the Schlock!

Depressing real stuff and trashy TV

"...Preparing to write my version of the Bedside Manner, I came to one inevitable conclusion: I..."

Feb. 20, 2011 Books Post by Jordan Smith

The Outlaw

Alex Cox, still shooting film, and the finger, after all these years

"...Alex Cox is dispatching from deep in the Oregon woods, hunkered away from the light and the..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

The Future of Funny Has Already Happened

Welcome to Spaced, the cult British comedy with Star Wars in its eyes

"...It's been nearly a decade in the making, but Spaced, the brilliant, hilarious, impossibly superfantastic British..."

July 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Joys of Meanness

Scott Blackwood's initiation into the writing life

"...thought up someplace else. No trees. But it's not the city or its lack of originality that was the..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

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