Attack of the Drive-In: Scott Derrickson Opens Up About The Gorge

How his new action-romance mixes Kurosawa and Taylor Swift

"...just that it would be a chance to see the pandemic-era time travel comedy on the big screen, Derrickson..."

Feb. 13, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mess With the Genres, You'll Get the Horns

Alexandre Aja discusses his film adaptation of Joe Hill's novel

"...Hill's 2010 novel Horns is a prime example of the "new weird" strain in American genre fiction, part whimsical..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Redistricting: Devils and Details

The ICRC attempts to increase minority representation

"...years, minority representation on Austin's City Council has been either the direct or indirect result of a decades-old racial..."

Nov. 8, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

Who the Hell is this Seth White?

And what, if anything, do RPGs and LARPing have to do with art?

"...torch to weld two or more pieces of metal together. Sometimes he uses a torch to bend or cut..."

July 30, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest spins at Turntable.fm, Zorch goes viral, and other digital delights from Bali Yaaah and the Meat Puppets

"...The Angel of Death has smiled upon Fun Fun Fun..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up some dust in Waterloo Park while Carlos Santana sets up shop in the Warehouse District

"...Dust in the Wind..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Reviewing the three-ring circus of Fun Fun Fun Fest and flashing back to the Armadillo World Headquarters with Dweezil Zappa

"...Who better than Austin's Riverboat Gamblers to belt out the unofficial theme song for Fun Fun Fun Fest? The..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Graham Williams of Transmission Entertainment breaks down this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest, while Ian McLagan and the Chronicle music staff sound off on the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot

"...Halfway through the inaugural Fun Fun Fun Fest, held on a blisteringly..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Off the Record goes the distance at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore; Snake Eyes Vinyl relocates; Belaire and Tacks, the Boy Disaster ship overseas; and more

"...shop of hardcore, will close its doors Aug. 19. The essential DIY punk and metal outlet, which opened at..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Hightower Lowdown

Bill Clinton's legacy; dousing Columbia; stadium envy

"...often wondered aloud what his "legacy" would be. NAFTA? The Wall Street Boom? King of soft-money fundraising?..."

July 27, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Greening of VH1

"...Anyone out there remember VH1 in its first incarnation? Yes, I can..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

The Sound and the Fury

Monsters of Folk drummer Will Johnson continues demonstrating monstrous musical and compositional gifts

"...Keeping beat for the Monsters of Folk at a sold-out Stubb's on a..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

The Great Pyramid

Bill Callahan can see clearly now

"..."I find the landscape really openhearted, like any creature could step out..."

April 20, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Empathy for the Devil

Discourse on Evil

"...Memnoch the Devil..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Books Feature

Burn, Witch, Burn

The Pope still loathes Ken Russell's 'The Devils,' and with good reason

"...Friday's screening of a near-complete cut of the late UK filmmaking provocateur Ken Russell's unspeakably controversial 1971..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Little Black Book

This is what happens when the "don't ask, don't tell" policy fails young lovers.

"...Maran. Little Black Book immediately posits itself as a not-your-run-of-the-mill romantic comedy with a quotation (from The Tempest) that..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Constantine

Adapted from Alan Moore’s groundbreaking DC/Vertigo comic title, Constantine is sure to divide the series’ most rabid fans, but those who can set aside their preconceptions will discover one of the more artfully designed comic-based films in some time.

"...and Peter Stormare. Woe unto John Constantine. Born with the ability to perceive both the diabolic and beatific creatures..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

When a Stranger Calls

Simon West’s do-over of Fred Walton’s 1979 creepfest – in which babysitter Belle menaced by a stranger with a phone who probably isn’t that guy from Verizon – is a hollow, shallow, and just plain boring exercise in snooziness.

"...I’ve got a rusty ice pick to bury in the gullet of whoever greenlighted this pointless exercise in masturbatory..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Memoriam: Bill Wittliff

Legendary writer/photographer/collector/benefactor dead at 79

"...literary, and art scenes, and a proud son of the Lone Star State who seemed to devote as much..."

June 12, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Novitiate

An original take on a crisis of faith

"...Director Margaret Betts’ superb debut feature arrives in theatres at perhaps just the right moment. At a time..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

Like a Boss

Texas Rollergirls take the Governor's Cup to kick of 2010 season

"...Call it the Texas derby derby: Four flat track roller derby teams..."

Feb. 24, 2010 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Eyes Wide Shut

Kubrick's final work gets sexual

"...Who knows what darkness lurks in the hearts of lovers? Kubrick apparently does, and in his..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Day Trips: Langtry, Texas

Judge Roy Bean and the Jersey Lilly live on in West Texas ghost town

"...place in Texas history, and it is due to the personality of one man. Judge Roy Bean was a..."

March 13, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Film Review: Immaculate

Nun horror delivers decent scares, but gets in its own way

"...The imagery of Roman Catholicism is ripe with the melancholy..."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Devil Times Five-ish

'A Field in England' might remind you of a field in Bastrop

"...Brit auteur Ben Wheatley's A Field in England managed the unlikely feat of giving me a minor anxiety attack..."

Sept. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Trailer Hitch

It's Electrick!

"...The SXSW Film Festival has officially opened for business. Let’s..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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

Idealizing John Darnielle

Mountain Goats’ singer on California, teenagers, and the devil

"...a man of words. From his song lyrics to the winding, infinitely referential interviews he's known for, the 45-year-old..."

Dec. 5, 2012 Music Post by Luke Winkie

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