The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...started writing stories down, we started trying to crack the code on them, from Aristotle's Poetics to Joseph Campbell..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...Madness: 'The Red Shoes'..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...widow of a certain age, tries to do all the right things that society and her family expect of..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The True Story

Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …

"...Father's father was a buffalo soldier...."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

The Gospel of John

The last years of Jesus are presented with more realism than pageantry.

"...Bunce and Lynsey Baxter. Put away your preconceptions about the Jesus Christ of the movies derived from those lavish..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Prince of Egypt

"...Fiennes and Val Kilmer. DreamWorks executives are hoping that their new animated feature The Prince of Egypt will be..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Passion of the Christ

So the difference between this and a snuff film is … ?

"...Gibson’s vanity project may well turn out to be the single most lucrative film of all time if ticket..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Carman: The Champion

"...niche marketing … Christian filmmaking seems to be all the rage these days -- or at least it looks..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Back in to the Vault

Reviving the Dead's latest from Rhino's vaults.

"...1994, and I still listen to a lot of their music, but I was never fanatical to the point..."

June 29, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Gospel According to Hollywood

Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.

"...Biblical epics are a weakness of mine. They don't have to be good so long as they're..."

April 13, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Continued Story

Daniel Johnston's songs find new life in the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle

"...Long ago in the Eighties, I was in a band called Glass Eye...."

Feb. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Kathy McCarty

Who the Hell Is TVHeadATX?

The local wheatpasting provocateur reveals … a thing or two

"...TVHead’s bold work can be found all over the city, his wheat-pasted posters and ubiquitous stickers pulling public..."

Aug. 11, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Very Ecstasy of Love

"...I’ve spent this past month in low-grade agony, without the thrill of constant argumentation and online contentiousness that made..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

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

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World , every MCU film reviewed

"...The Marvel Cinematic Universe has lost its greatest heroes, but..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...Before he took the stage of Central Missouri State University's Hendricks Hall on..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

Digging up the Raiders!

The strange tale of Raiders of the Lost Ark remade

"...an homage to a long-gone genre has become a story that deserves its own documentary...."

June 17, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Thousand-String Guitar

Austin gets the world jazzed about classical guitar

"...in June, you expect local teens to be marking the summer break in the time-honored ways: minimum-wage-slaving it in..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...kicking off its 2025 Film & TV Festival with The Studio, the new Apple TV+ half-hour series from Seth..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...We've already teased some of the highlights of the just-announced SXSW Film 2011 lineup –..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Meet Me at Waterloo Records: Playing, Shopping, and Encountering Life-Changing Moments at the Heart of Austin Music

Influential Austin characters reminice on 40 years of playing, shopping, and encountering life-changing moments at the heart of Austin music

"...and gave me a piercing look. Queued up at the vinyl room register in Waterloo Records, I flashed back..."

April 8, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

What the Right Hand Is Doing

Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.

"...by Turk Pipkin, Mike Caveney, and Martin Lewis for the 20-year reunion of the Left-Handed League at Palmer Auditorium...."

Sept. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Turk Pipkin

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...Everybody knows Ray Benson: the big guy with the big..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Austin Film Festival: The Horror and Hilarity of HOAs in Subtopia

Luis Caffesse and Clifford Wildman bring friendship to the screen

"...What’s the most special gift you ever gave a best friend?..."

Oct. 23, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The First To Question

Remembering the ultimate theatre historian, Oscar Brockett, 1923-2010

"...Measuring the impact that the late Oscar Brockett had upon the..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Final Act

The Texas Documentary Tour hosts Robert Stone's 'Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'

"...The Patty Hearst kidnapping on Feb. 4, 1974, was one..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Behind the Wheel With Deezie Brown

After five years of fine-tuning, the perfectionist producer and rapper rolls out 5th Wheel Fairytale

"...Obviously, the job I refer to is not this job (Hi..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

The X-Files' Invisible Ink

The Truth Is Out There -- Somewhere

"..."The Truth Is Out There -- Somewhere" was originally published..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Screens Feature

The Mighty Hannibal Sees All

The Atlanta soul man has stories to tell, and who cares if they're true?

"...“I want somebody to tell my mother and go down yonder in Georgia and tell my..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

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