City Hall Hustle: Twisting the Knife

Is Austin heading for a double-dip recession?

"...that question as a kind of joking throwaway at the end of a preview his office had arranged for..."

April 22, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

The 23rd International Tournee of Animation

"...Directed by: Terry Thoren. Experimental animation, despite the arty jargon often attached to it, is a dependable..."

Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Chris Walters

The Immigrant

Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix star in James Gray's latest New York opus, a story about a woman turned out from Ellis Island to fend for herself on the mean streets of New York.

"...The first shot of the film is of Ellis Island,..."

May 30, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...The jigsaw of geography in filmmaking is such that one..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

The Lodge

Icy melding of horror and religion is cool, not chilling

"...The essence of drama will always have a thread of..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Fan

"...D'Arbanville-Quinn and Chris Mulkey. Try though he might, all the dreamy angles and soft-focus rain spatter in Tony Scott's..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Review: The Lodge

Family drama becomes an exercise in cruelty that may go to far

"...The essence of drama will always have a thread of..."

Sept. 22, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Both Sides of the Blade

Roiling, contradictory passions rule in Claire Denis’ latest

"...her ex-lover François (Colin), riding off on his motorcycle. The effect on Sara is immediate, an emotional lightning strike..."

July 15, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Has Doggett Found the Four-Way Map?

Plan to split Travis County even further surfaces

"...week that he'd heard descriptions of a map to further gerrymander the county into four Congressional districts, even worse..."

April 28, 2011 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Coprophiliacs looking for a movie that really rings their chimes will be positively tintinnabulating from this arthouse horror number.

"...Blankenstein. Coprophiliacs looking for a movie that really rings their chimes will be positively tintinnabulating from this arthouse horror..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The United States of Leland

Kevin Spacey-produced indie drama plays like The OC's more intellectual, older sibling.

"...Directed by: Matthew Ryan Hoge. Starring: Ryan Gosling, Don Cheadle, Kevin Spacey,..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The General

"...but I can only assume that when one of their criminals is singled out as unusually flamboyant, this should..."

March 5, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Client

"...Parker, Anthony Lapaglia and Ossie Davis. “Objection, your honor! The protagonist is being willfully stupid! Again!” All through this..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Angels, Devils, and Jim Cummings at The Last Stop in Yuma County

The indie icon breaks down his new dusty noir and its ensemble

"...There are filmmakers who make films, and filmmakers who show..."

May 17, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Street Corner Arts' The Gulf

Simple narrative hides its power in what it doesn't say

"...are fighting in a boat… No, this is not the set-up for what is sure to be a bad..."

Dec. 15, 2022 Arts Post by Shanon Weaver

How Art the Clown Became a Horror Icon

Slasher epic Terrifier 2 breaks all the rules, but director Damien Leone is just telling the story he wants to tell

"...It's been called the first slasher epic, but that wasn't Damien Leone's intention..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Queen of Black Magic

Indonesian horror is stomach-churning and gut-wrenching

"...If there are two signatures to Indonesian horror, they would be..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: The Healing Hand of Jonathan Horne

Following the free jazz guitar phenom as he undergoes hand surgery

"...Horne, crossing a skyway between a parking garage and the adjoining medical center...."

July 27, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Missing found-footage finally escapes, plus Bautista in Bushwick

"...Sometimes a missing movie turns up, and the mythology that grew up around its absence eclipses the..."

Nov. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jarrott Productions’ The Herd

In this staging of Rory Kinnear’s domestic drama, a birthday celebration reveals the stress fractures of caring for a disabled child

"...The character of Andy never shows up for the 21st..."

April 14, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Niche Streaming Sites for the Holidays

Give the gift of worlds of entertainment just a click away

"...be reigning supreme as far as internet bandwidth goes, there is a wide array of niche streaming sites that..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Staying on Message With the San Antonio Spurs

Twitter branding with the NBA's most notoriously conservative squad

"...first glance it seems like an accident. Navigate to the Twitter directory on the San Antonio Spurs' website and..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Beejoli Shah

Straus The Survivor

How the coup to remove the Texas House Speaker strengthened him

"...The Tea Party has a new hobby: Abortive attempts to..."

Jan. 10, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Top Chef Texas, Week 11: Who's The Fairest Of Them All?

Charlize Theron is such a queen.

"...Previously on Top Chef: The lady chefs hate Bev. TyLor gets the knife. Sarah..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Hammer of the Gods

Scandinavia brings the lobster tail to SXSW 07

"...The Romans and Greeks were the first to write about..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Liveblogging the Northcross Hearing…

"...upon us. A few considerations, before we get underway: –The previous speaker sign-up numbers got blown out of the..."

Dec. 14, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Films Are Alive ...

Dispatches from the Toronto International Film Festival: No. 3

"...There's lots of music on the screens at the Toronto..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shoot for the Moon

Actor Danny Trejo has made a film career out of playing criminals. Before that, he made a career out of being one. In town to shoot Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids, Trejo visited Travis High School to talk to students about the lessons he learned the hard way.

"...The busboys at Güero's stare at Danny Trejo hesitantly, unsure..."

June 9, 2000 Screens Feature by Barry Johnson

A Victory by the People

Filibuster, parliamentary gamesmanship kill abortion bill … for now

"...It took until 2:20 in the morning for the Texas Senate to determine whether 12:02am..."

June 26, 2013 News Post by Dan Solomon

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...celebration of a certain kind of cinematic fare and the theatres that showed it. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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