In the Land of Saints and Sinners

Irish action-thriller about a retired assassin dragged back into a life of violence

"...get a Silence or his wonderful vocal role as the titular beast in A Monster Calls, but as he..."

March 29, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 2-8

"...AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the fifth annual Brag Therapy Holiday – for you Aquarians..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Celebrate 50 Years of the Village With Alamo Drafthouse

Parties, Disney classics, and a Wes Anderson retrospective

"...The Alamo South Lamar may be known as Alamo Drafthouse's..."

Jan. 11, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Prepárate Para Tener Miedo With New Horror Anthology Satanic Hispanics

Segment directors on celebrating Latino diversity through terror

"...For a film that brings together Latino filmmakers, Satanic Hispanics does everything it can to..."

Nov. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Finding Sasquatch in Summoning the Spirit

How a Texas bigfoot migrated to Oregon for new cryptid horror

"...Is there a word for fans of bigfoot movies? There are..."

Aug. 10, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Girls Rock Austin’s Ethos: I’m Not Sorry, I Rock

Trans and nonbinary-friendly camp gears up for Saturday show

"...When I asked the executive director of Girls Rock Austin (GRA) to describe..."

June 9, 2023 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

Still Charmed, Shirley Manson Talks Decades of Touring and New Bionic Hip

Bandleader’s “insanity and drive” fuel Garbage’s June 18 COTA stop

"...It’d been bothering her in fits and starts since she fell off..."

April 11, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Ten Austin Concert Options for New Year's Eve 2022

From Cumbia to Coconut Club's Last Dance, ring in 2023 musically

"...NYE 2023: The Last Dance..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...report found 85% of Downtown retail storefronts in business, the highest percentage since the pandemic began...."

Nov. 18, 2022 News Feature

Fantastic Fest Review: Vesper

Eco-horror melds with fairytales in this remarkable SF parable

"...In the future of Vesper, much like our own present, there..."

Sept. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five aGLIFF Movies to Stream at Home

Award winners and hometown heroes of queer cinema jump online

"...is coming to your homes with a selection of the best of international and local queer cinema...."

Sept. 2, 2022 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

aGLIFF Gets in the Ring With New Wrestling Documentary

Queer film fest announces first six films

"...Festival, is making its 2022 lineup more wrestling-y with the announcement that LGBTQ wrestling documentary Out in the Ring..."

July 23, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Goes Delving into the UnderWorlds

Senior Programmer Dan Repp digs into two days of horror

"...Other Worlds, Austin's film festival dedicated to all things science..."

May 19, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Belle

Social media and fairy tales meet in this gorgeous, grounded version of Beauty and the Beast

"...really tapped into how people interact with and through their preferred platforms. That's why Mamoru Hosoda stands out. He..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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

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

"...The 2022 film festival is just around the corner (even..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Until the End of the World

Writing is not what I live for, it’s how I live

"...Author's note: In January 2020, the poet Gail Wronsky asked me to contribute to What..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Arts Feature by Michael Ventura

Paramount Summer Season Has a Giant Ending Lined Up

Wizards, restoration, and l'amour round out the classics

"...The 46th Annual Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, as the..."

July 21, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Soup’s On!

And, tell you what, it’s some real Good Stock

"...The success of Austin’s Soup Peddler, for instance, wasn’t predicated..."

July 8, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: Spoon Returns On Full Blast

Reigning local rockers' surprise show at Mohawk and more music news

"..."This is real life," noted Britt Daniel upon taking the stage at Mohawk last Thursday night during Spoon's post-pandemic..."

July 9, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

The Return of Ted Lasso, the Rescheduled Tokyo Olympics, and 44 Other TV Somethings to Consume in July

Also: a Gossip Girl reboot, dueling Love Islands

"...Good news for the cult of Ted Lasso, Apple TV+’s breakout show about..."

July 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

15 Breakfast Sandwiches in Austin Worth Waking Up For

Fuel your mornings without emptying your pockets

"...The humble breakfast sandwich fuels this nation. They're blue collar..."

July 2, 2021 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

Qmmunity: Rainbows Here, There, Everywhere

Cluck rainbow capitalism, keep your pink dollars in Austin’s queer community at these events

"...Blame it on the siren call of rainbow capitalism – or well-intentioned if..."

June 11, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

The Djinn

The dangers of a wish coming true in this childhood horror

"...does evil come from? Supernatural horror films often bury themselves in cosmological exposition. For The Djinn, filmmaking duo David..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

15 Things You Didn't Know About Bigfoot (#1 Will Blow Your Mind)

Search for the shaggy beast kinda goes nowhere

"...Things aren’t looking too rosy these days for online journalist Brian (Emond). Even though he..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Beast Beast

Lyrical look at Gen-Z life trips on its own good intentions

"..."Krista," writer/director Danny Madden had a laserlike focus on the titular theatre school kid, but the expansion into Beast..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jakob's Wife

Crampton and Fessenden rewrite the vampire/hunter dynamic in this relationship horror-comedy

"...Anne and Jakob's marriage is on the rocks, well before a horrific force flutters into their..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Godzilla vs. Kong

The madcap royal rumble we were always promised

"...It had to happen. Kong, the lord of Skull Island, was always going to challenge..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...Every year, Austin's film festival highlight some of the best up-and-coming filmmakers. And every year, there are still..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Building the Perfect Beast for Skylines

Director Liam O'Donnell on evolving the Skyline aliens

"...terrifying, three films in to a series? Especially when the first film revealed that the interstellar invaders were harvesting..."

Dec. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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