Live-Tweet The Devil's Candy With Us

Crank it up to 11 for this horror-metal medley

"...Like horror? Like metal? Like live-tweets? Then you better be ready to rock out against evil..."

May 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ethan Embry Licks The Devil's Candy

Cheap Thrills star on his very heavy metal Austin horror

"...Bellflower, California, straight up white trash." In thrash-infused horror The Devil's Candy, he plays "a kid that did the..."

March 31, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: The Devil's Candy

Ethan Embry + Satan + Sunn O))) = tonight's live-tweet

"...Last week we picked Richard Linklater's musical comedy The School of Rock for our weekly live-tweet: Tonight, we..."

May 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" posits the impossibility of following two..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmakers Make International Festival Waves

Watch out Chicago (and Montreal, and Edinburgh, and London)

"...The autumn film festival season isn't quite with us yet...."

July 17, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival: Jack's Apocalypse

Armageddon and addiction, Texas-style

"...Desperation. Isolation. Stragglers gathering together in tribal groupings, desperate for succor, willing to..."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Last year's unseen genre gems to add to your must-see list

"...sneak peek at titles that won't hit screens for another year. So here's a quick rundown of some of..."

Jan. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Fox fairies, ultra-violence, and amnesia dominated 2015

"...top 10 lists. Some are relatively easy: Who has the best cheese sandwich, who wrote the best law? It's..."

Jan. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Over Your Dead Body

Takashi Miike resurrects an old Japanese ghost

"...There are few directors as prodigious and versatile as Takashi..."

Jan. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: David Ramirez’s Lost Art

David Ramirez’s America, HAAM Benefit Day, and the reverend of Austin music

"...found me one night standing in front of Lamberts, the door guy having just checked one more time and..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: This Is Halloween

Unconventional horror for the haunting time

"...Everyone has their favorite Halloween movie. Personally, it's the rock 'em, shock..."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Things They Used to Do

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

"...Turn Out the Lights: Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90sby..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

SXSW Adds to Music Roster

Imarhan, Minus the Bear, Joan of Arc, Charlotte Day Wilson, and 152 more

"...has been a busy month for South by Southwest. The organization executed the inaugural South by South Lawn at..."

Oct. 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Amazing Journey

Six from Britain's bad-boy directors

"...It's fitting that the Austin Film Society kicks off this particular Essential Cinema..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Hellions

We binge-watch this month's horror for you

"...Freddy. Jason. Dracula. The Wolfman. Icons of horror, all. But is there anything..."

Feb. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Going Places

A metaphysical jumping-off point for a return to the good fight

"...They came to God in secret..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Column by Louis Black

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Oct. 28-Nov. 4

"...A FRACTURED SOCIETY A presentation from National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Jim Leach. 7pm. Harry Ransom Center, 300..."

Oct. 29, 2010 News Column

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...five nights, divided by you. And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

SXSW Showcase Picks: Friday

"...Thanks to the sheer number of bands, the nature of SXSW is..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Playback

Christmas wishes for the local set

"...Graying halo-haired hero to the turtleneck set, Wayne Coyne slid down the chimney from..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday night blurbage of SXSW

"...subject to change FRIDAY PICKS Earl Poole Ball & The Cosmic Americans..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Thoroughly Modern Millie

The young musical thespians of Summerstock Austin's Thoroughly Modern Millie are determined to entertain you, and they succeed impeccably

"...Mary Moody Northen Theatre, through Aug. 5..."

July 27, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks

Page Two

What it takes to win the War on the War on Christmas

"...What it takes to win the War on the War on ChristmasREPORT FROM THE FRONT:..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...For many, Buckwheat Zydeco (née Stanley Dural, Jr.) is the embodiment of the widely popular black, South Louisiana accordion-driven..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

AMOA and Mexic-Arte Shows Take Us to Personal Places

"...In Octalan, a tiny Oaxacan village in Southern Mexico, life probably hasn't changed much in the last..."

May 22, 1998 Arts Feature