Rooster Teeth Unleashes Red vs. Blue: Zero Release Date

Plus two new shows, and a new way to watch RT

"...of RTX at Home, Rooster Teeth's online version of their annual gathering has just wrapped up its first big..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Broken Hearts Gallery

Clumsy meet-cute should have looked at the best friends instead

"...Lucy Gulliver belongs in the same conversation as other polarizing, force-of-personality characters like Juno..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantasia Review: Bleed With Me

Blood binds friendships in this remote chiller

"...implication, and Canadian three-handed chiller Bleed With Me loads the screen with tension, and leaves the rest to the..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: For the Sake of Vicious

Merciless revenger's tragedy never blanches from violence

"...Nobody directs violence like Gabriel Carrer. There's something unrelenting, something apologetically disturbing and confrontational about how..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fatima

Faith-based movie is better made and more frustrating than most

"...The Miracle of the Sun, also known as the Miracle..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Vanished

Thomas Jane and Anne Heche hunt for their daughter, and everyone's a suspect

"...is, "Is this supposed to be funny?" So goes the comically overblown The Vanished, the story of two parents..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Bickering

Video can be a really effective learning device

"...of it is that I am genuinely concerned for their health (they're in their 60s and are a little..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

Cowboys Versus Witches in The Pale Door

Austinite Aaron B. Koontz's weird, weird West

"...for Austin writer/director Aaron B. Koontz to head on the dusty trail to making his period horror The Pale..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Spree

Man Bites Dog hits the influencer generation

"...single-digit followers, beneath notice or contempt (he's not even the first Kurtsworld, and check out the name on his..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski's brutal novel of Nazi-occupied Poland loses none of its inhumanity

"...The Painted Bird is theatre of cruelty at its most..."

July 17, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Permanent Vacation in Palm Springs With Max Barbakow

A time loop movie influenced by everything but Groundhog Day

"...Day became a genre, not just a film. It's the common cultural shorthand for a cinematic time loop film,..."

July 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery – an Excerpt

In this chapter from her book, Erica C. Barnett describes the point when her life became a shrinking circle

"...up in my life, I practiced until I got the hang of it."..."

July 10, 2020 Arts Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Becky

Because sometimes you just have to deal with a few neo-Nazis the old-fashioned way

"...why no one realized that Kevin James - yes, the former king of Queens - makes a great cerebral..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Voice Contestant Ricky Duran Gets Vulnerable

“The lyrics are so deep that I wouldn’t just tell this to a stranger”

"...Runner-up in season 17 of television singing competition The Voice, Ricky Duran currently executes the majority of his..."

May 22, 2020 Music Post by Nataleah Small

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi unlocked mass communication by creating the first substantial radio transmission system. Now, 125 years later,..."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Can Quibi Be Your New Go-To App?

CEO Meg Whitman on diversity and innovation in the new streamer

"...The coronavirus lockdown has been a mixed affair for the..."

April 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: "Pepito"

Award-winning comedy short takes us back to childhood

"...baby. Award-winning Austin comedy short "Pepito" sums up all the emotions that state of affairs induces – starting with..."

April 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Austin Musician Gina Chavez Became the Subject of the City's Latest Mural

The story of an L.A. muralist creating a 12-foot-tall portrait of a local musical star

"...Levi Ponce was on a mission: to "spread the beauty of Latino culture throughout the Bible Belt." The..."

April 3, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Perfect Nanny

French cuckoo-in-the-nest thriller is rarely as good as its lead

"...a true-life crime in New York in 2012 – The Perfect Nanny taps into a very particular kind of..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Drops Final Artist List

Welcome Delta Spirit, M. Ward, Open Mike Eagle, and 151 more

"...running March 16-22, are reformed rockers Delta Spirit, Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon, space-age wordsmith Kool Keith, aka Dr...."

March 5, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Three Faiths, One Message: Welcome the Stranger

Faith communities come together in support of refugee resettlement locally and statewide

"...faith communities – Judaism, Islam, and Christianity – came together at Saint John's United Methodist Church in recognition of..."

Feb. 14, 2020 News Feature by Francesca D'Annunzio

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...so you've had your headliners and competition titles, with the normal array of talent and titles Now it's time..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Glam Punks of 70s Austin Get Up to Their Gypsy Tricks

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part two: Glitter rock (1972-76) fades

"...like Ike Turner and Bobby "Blue" Bland frequented his father's barbershop next door to the 5-4 Ballroom, a prime..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)

"...snarls Billy Bill Miller, Roky Erickson's electric autoharp genius. "The outlaw thing was pretty big. Austin became a music..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

The Luv Doc: Paying for It

Being broke in America is a cardinal sin

"...being taken on a dinner date by someone and the person's card gets declined? Like, I get we all..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

Cluck-N-Burger Gives Food Truck Vibes at Its Airport Boulevard Location

Fried chicken to wedge salad at this cool new neighborhood eatery

"...at this early moment. After opening quietly in September, the food truck-turned-restaurant has been steadily working out the kinks..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin Playhouse's She Loves Me

This old-fashioned rom-com musical oozes charm and earns its Pollyanna platitudes

"...If the musical She Loves Me were any more adorable, it..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

Capital T Theatre's It Is Magic

This captivating staging of Mickle Maher's comedy debates theatre's enchantments where Macbeth meets "The Three Little Pigs"

"...and he puffed, and he ... yeah, you know the rest...."

Nov. 15, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Searching for New Heights at Film Fests Reel Rock 14 and Reel Plastic

Two rock-climbing film fest come to Austin

"...With sport climbing's debut at the 2020 Olympic Games a little more than half a..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

TILT Performance Group's Pandora: Life Outside the Box

This world premiere of Allen Robertson's musical releases kindness and joy into the world

"...keep a lid on her own curiosity or on the box given to her by Zeus, thus unleashing on..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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