I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

"...Directed by: Sam Jones. Starring: Wilco. The title is taken from a song on Wilco's latest..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Daniel Johnston

"...Drop the needle on this blue-star-dappled clear vinyl and out warbles..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Just My Luck

Lindsay Lohan takes on a grown-up role, but we can't tell the difference.

"...Faizon Love and Missi Pyle. Just My Luck is the first film in which Lohan portrays a full-fledged adult...."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Stay

With a script by David Benioff (25th Hour) and direction by Marc Forster of Monster's Ball fame, Stay is an ambitious experiment that never quite jells.

"...An ambitious experiment that never quite jells, Stay is the cinematic equivalent of crème brûlée, deliciously ethereal when it..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Daddy

"...kinder, gentler Adam Sandler targets a whole new demographic, the ladies, in this lighthearted -- but still marginally obnoxious..."

June 25, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Greta

Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert play cat-and-mouse in this glorious potboiler

"...Go big or go home. Those must have been the words foremost in the mind of Neil Jordan, the..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

About Last Night

Sexual perversity is released with gleeful abandon in this second film outing for Mamet's 40-year-old play.

"...in 1986 as About Last Night … – moves the action to Los Angeles and reinstates the sexual perversity..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Arbitrage

Richard Gere stars in this thriller as a duplicitous hedge-fund manager who, nevertheless, has all the right moves.

"...The morality of a duplicitous New York City hedge-fund director..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Wednesday International Bands

Wednesday's just the beginning!

"...Danish indie rockers invoke the Eighties with the sometimes lush, sometimes spare Euro-synth sound..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Godsend

Godsend is an unresurrectable muddle about human cloning.

"...Niro and Cameron Bright. All is not well in the Duncan household. Idealistic schoolteacher dad Paul (Kinnear) and photographer..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Empire

"...Sonia Braga and Isabella Rossellini. “If only I knew then what I know now,” laments former South Bronx street..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Margarita Happy Hour

"...Kristin Di Spaltro. Square peg, round hole. That's what the twentysomethings who drift through Margarita Happy Hour are like...."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Light It Up

Director Lizzie Borden revisits her incendiary 1983 feminist classic, Born in Flames, showing as part of the Austin Film Society's series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s."

"...The incendiary Born in Flames is Lizzie Borden's signature film...."

June 22, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Committed

"...Directed by: Lisa Krueger. Starring: Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, Luke Wilson, Goran Visnjic, Alfonso Arau..."

June 2, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gossip

"...students starts a nasty rumor in order to understand the life cycle of gossip. The course subject is never..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stepmom

"...Jena Malone, Ed Harris, Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Motherhood is a perpetually dangerous place, filled with dread and..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

A Perfect Murder

"...Gretchen Palmer, Tommy “tiny” Lister, Helen Martin and John Witherspoon. For all of its brutality, and it has plenty,..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Dazed and Confused

Linklater's 1976-set movie is one of the smartest and funniest coming-of-age films ever.

"...Linklater. Starring: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Rory Cochrane and Matthew McConaughey. Dazed and Confused is one of the most..."

Sept. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Day of Summer

White Denim pours 'Corsicana Lemonade'

"...A friend there had died. I relocated for something that had passed,..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...whole, though, 2000's Revolution 33 makes it clear that the quartet loves the late-Seventies power pop of bands like..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

"...Mr. Resistor, Trio D-Force, and HairyApesBMX, plus Chicago guests the J. Davis Trio. Plans call for Austin's multifarious Humpday..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

"...SleepersDON LEADY Y LOS CADILLOS: As an original LeRoi Brother, Leady helped define the strong roots rock scene in..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature

Bigger, Better, Smarter

San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?

"...San Diego has one of America's finest harbors. It's the largest U.S. city that touches the Mexican border. And..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Condo Clash

The Gotham Has Neighbors Up in Arms

"...When you hear the word Gotham, do you think of bats? You might..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Young Nick Recovering

Young Nick lives to rap about it

"...Baynard suffered a seizure that cut off movement along the left side of his body. Rushed to St. David's,..."

Nov. 15, 2011 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

A Conversation Between Coaches Brown and Stoops

"...my safety D.J. Wolfe. He picked off two against the Buffs and it looked like a rout, my friend...."

Oct. 4, 2007 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Los Amigos Invisibles

"...If their motto "El Disco es Cultura" doesn't indicate that Los..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Tinariwen

"...Hailing from the southern Sahara, Tinariwen's nomadic guitar mantras encompass the spiritual..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

SXSW Film Awards Announced

Jury and Audience picks

"...The 2012 SXSW Film Festival Award winners were announced tonight..."

March 13, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Last-Minute Style Gift Guide

Presents for everyone on your list: from nieces to nemeses

"...for everyone on your list isn't easy. Between your grandmother who collects string and your neighbor that may be..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Design Post by Brandon Watson

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