Beyond the Black Rainbow

Visually striking but completely nuts, this filmmaking debut received a Special Jury Award for Boldness of Vision at last year's Fantastic Fest.

"...As filmmaking debuts go, Panos Cosmatos’ Beyond the Black Rainbow is as striking as it is nuts...."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Meet the Cheesemaker Series Kicks Off at Antonelli's

Intimate setting offers hospitality, flavor, and information

"...Antonelli and his staff welcomed students to class with the gracious enthusiasm and hospitality customers have come to expect..."

Jan. 22, 2013 Food Post by Margaret Shugart

The Good Music Club: Melogrand

Good clean restlessness

"...Ohio art-pop emigres the Story Of shed three bandmembers, who then added a..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Up on the Sun

Defining the classic Meat Puppets sound

"...Longtime local Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets always calls it liked he sees it...."

June 19, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Broadway: The Golden Age

Epic oral history of the heyday of the Great White Way as told by the people who were living on graham crackers and dreams back when it was all going on.

"...Directed by: Rick McKay. Ah, the good old days. What could be better than reminiscing..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Rachel Proctor May

The Insect Woman

"...by: Shohei Imamura. Starring: Sachiko Hidari and Jitsuko Yoshimura. The Insect Woman, from Japanese director Shohei Imamura, one of..."

Nov. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Killer

This is the film that made John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat household names within action-crazed American households. Elements of conventional melodrama and criminal double-crosses blend in this story about a hitman conducting one last job to earn the money to restore the eyesight of a woman he had previously blinded.

"...Chu Kong and Sally Yeh. Love is strange; in The Killer, it's batshit crazy. This latest example of the..."

April 19, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Austin Opera Sets Audiences Atop the World's Tallest Mountain

Joby Talbot's adventurous new opera scales Everest

"...In the distance, snow-covered mountains stand in a jagged line. In..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Inside the Amazing World of Taxidermy With Stuffed

Director Erin Derham finds beauty and lessons in animal art

"...documentary Stuffed, she admits, she was “very ignorant about the subject.”..."

March 14, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Only the Brave

Visceral dramatization of the heroic work of the Granite Mountain Hotshots

"...The profession of firefighting is shown for the hard, heroic..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Magnificent Seven

Revisionist remake stars a diverse rainbow coalition

"...(itself an oater remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1956 film The Seven Samurai) is not terribly magnificent or noticeably revisionist..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Who Did the Animation for Keith Maitland’s Documentary Tower?

Minnow Mountain’s Craig Staggs talks art & drama & Austin & Earp

"...The Tower documentary itself focuses, as Richard Whittaker points out..."

March 25, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Eagles Come Home to Roost

Three-hour documentary spawns an epic live tie-in

"...Platinum ego encases History of the Eagles, a three-hour rock doc (on Netflix and mailed..."

May 20, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The concluding chapter of Peter Jackson's Tolkien tales brings us full circle.

"...tight, two-film take on J.R.R. Tolkien’s 320-page prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy became, in Peter Jackson’s..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Long Trip up the 'Dark Mountain'

Writer/director Tara Anaïse brings her wilderness horror to Austin

"...If there are two terrible fears to combine, it's claustrophobia and..."

July 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

There Goes the Neighborhood

North/South/Central – redistricting the live music capital

"...Take 10th Street, between the frontage road and Red River. My secret spot: gone...."

July 25, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Hunter

Willem Dafoe plays a Canadian tracker hunting presumed-extinct prey in Tasmania, but soon he's stalking humans as well.

"...Directed by: Daniel Nettheim. Starring: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgana Davies, Frances O'Connor..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...On Monday, June 4, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Finding God in the Gumbo

Once in the Ninth Ward and now in the Hill Country, the Smoking for Jesus Ministry serves up Real New Orleans Style fare with a side of spiritual nourishment

"...Katrina, decimating your entire community and way of life? The answer for one New Orleans East church group was:..."

May 4, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

This Chinese film presents an uncharacteristically romantic look at the Cultural Revolution.

"...and Wang Shuangbao. In adapting his eponymous novel to the screen, Dai Sijie retains its breezy, amiable mien, complemented..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Cave

A crack team of cave divers encounters untold horror in the form of bloodthirsty sea slugs.

"...and quite possibly some genuine old-Hollywood hidden depths. At the very least I thought of her, for no particular..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Supercross: The Movie

Two brothers overcome emotional and physical obstacles to achieve success in the competitive world of supercross racing.

"...Clear Channel’s Supercross broadcasts and part hellish miscalculation on the part of the producers, Supercross: The Movie fails to..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Emperor's Club

"...boarding-school story buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Crimson Rivers

"...snake through this French thriller which is set in the Alpine glaciers. Aiming for something along the lines of..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cup

Filmed in Bhutan with a cast of unknown Tibetan nonprofessionals, The Cup takes its charming premise – pint-sized monks striving against all odds to watch a satellite broadcast of the 1998 World Cup match between Brazil and France – and runs with it.

"...in Bhutan with a cast of unknown Tibetan nonprofessionals, The Cup takes its charming premise -- pint-sized monks striving..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Green Mile

"...Sam Rockwell, Barry Pepper and Harry Dean Stanton. Oh, the time and money we all could have saved had..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cannibal! the Musical

"...Hardin, Dian Bachar, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Before there was South Park, Baseketball, or Orgazmo, there was this..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Postman

"...Tom Petty. Kevin Costner tends to arouse in me the same protective instincts as the sweet old geezer who..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Doom Generation

"...and Jordan White (Duvall), who get mixed up with the manipulative and violence-prone drifter Xavier Red (Schaech), contains images..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Legend of Zipang

"...Mami Yasuda and Mikijiro Taira. I can sum up The Legend of Zipang in a simple, one-syllable word: Fun...."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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