Here Comes the Guv

Kinky Friedman lights up his campaign

"...guess it just by looking at him. Waiting in the green room of San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium for his..."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

They Got the Beat

Living the pop life in Austin

"...a mere three-letter word, cause this much havoc? Could there be a more misunderstood and misapplied musical classification? Little..."

May 4, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Lizards of Aus

'Never an Adult Moment' With Austin's Veteran Bluegrass Pranksters

"...There're a lot worse things a group of middle-aged men..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Tracking the MACC

A Brief History of Austin's Latino Cultural Center

"...one thing that annoyed a lot of people was the Austin Aqua Festival ó or, more specifically, the boat..."

June 12, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

The Adventures of Sancho Panza

Guitar Techs

"...Vile, humid Houston heat permeates Fitzgeralds' cramped backstage. In the wings, Charlie Sexton's nine guitars stand sweltering at attention...."

June 23, 1995 Music Feature

Joshua

The privileged nuclear family becomes a hellish dystopia as a result of a 9-year-old child's subtle, nuanced, unspoken manipulations.

"...Jacob Kogan, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts and Michael McKean. There are moments in Joshua that recall, in their spare,..."

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I'll Be Home for Christmas

"...whose titles echo Christmas carol refrains. Remember Jingle All the Way? Heed the omen. Oh, I'll Be Home for..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Case 39

Renée Zellweger stars as a social worker who protects a child whose family has created dark forces around her.

"...Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Adrian Lester and Kerry O'Malley. Neither so awful as to be enjoyable nor eerily artful..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Natural Selection

This locally shot black comedy examines the bizarre feedback loop that exists among celebrity psychopaths, the increasingly tabloidized mainstream news media, and, not least, our own bad selves.

"...Selection director Mark Bristol. That said, I'm not sure the actual fruit of Bristol's labors isn't as much a..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Twenty Flight Rock

Film Composers Talk About the Art, Craft, Blood, Sweat, and Tears of Writing for the Cinema

"...Knowing the ScoreFilm Composers Talk About the Art, Craft, Blood, Sweat,..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by David Lynch

Five Ingredients for a Perfect Halloween

Like the best bags of trick-or-treat candy, it’s all in the selecton

"...In Flood of Spirits, writer/director Rebecca Maag summons the spirits of the Austin Dam failure of 1900 and..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Talking Terror and Trauma in New Horror Smile

Director Parker Finn and star Sosie Bacon Smile, and the world screams with them

"...In the background of an apartment in Smile, the new horror..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Getting Real Weird at Fantastic Fest

Two gems from the Weird Wednesday archive connect the genre fest to the Alamo Drafthouse's history

"...Before Fantastic Fest and the American Genre Film Archive, there was Weird Wednesday. A..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...has announced its first wave of programming for 2021. The headliner? Titane, Julia Ducournau's Cannes Palme D'Or award-winning story..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

What's Fantastic at Fantasia

Highlights from the Canadian genre fest, plus films you may see soon

"...The film festival calendar is a packed, year-round experience (and..."

Aug. 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Dark Touch' / 'Argento's Dracula'

Two very different dances with Irish Gothic

"...that look like skeletons in winter, darkness, and everyday clothes that could pass as funeral weeds. All part of..."

Feb. 1, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW and Amazon Announce Virtual Festival Lineup

Feature and shorts from 2020 fest going online for 10 days

"...may not have happened IRL this year, but today the film festival released the lineup of films that will..."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Things That Go Bump

Ghosts, nightmares, and flashlights in this horror roundup

"...Two weeks of rain in Austin. Good for the flowers, the lakes are up, the sun is vanquished...."

May 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...Myra Breckinridge Video stores killed the revival houses. Video and the old movie channels on..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Ouija

Hasbro's soothsaying board is the MacGuffin in this teen horror film.

"...own starring role in a film that makes those other recent Hasbro plaything adaptations – namely Transformers and G.I...."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.

"...Nature, nurture, or just plain evil? That's the question at the heart of this savage and sorrowful..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

As Good as It Gets

Nicholson and Hunt both won Oscars for their respective roles as a rude and obsessive-compulsive writer and the waitress who grows to love him.

"...Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding, Skeet Ulrich and Shirley Knight. The title, As Good as It Gets, looms like an..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Troll in Central Park

"...Leachman, Phillip Glasser and Tawney Sunshine Glover. Most of the folks I know who troll Central Park are not..."

Dec. 30, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Stuff to Do at SXSW 2024

Party at the post-apocalypse, smell good doing it

"...Film / TV Tie-ins Wasteland of the Fallout..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Kimberley Jones

Paramount Theatre's Summer Film Classics

"...60 Hollywood classics will be presented between now and the end of August. Most films will be presented as..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Fallen

"...by: Gregory Hoblit. Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini and Elias Koteas. Demons, angels,..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Demon

This astute Polish ghost movie is an instant genre classic

"...classic but also an astute and affecting rumination on the notion that the shades of the past are always..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Larry Norman

Reissues

"...Larry NormanRebel Poet, Jukebox Balladeer: The Anthology (Arrco)..."

June 20, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Panic Fest Review: An Unquiet Grave

Sorrow swallows a family whole in this supernatural chiller

"...vortex. It doesn't seem so bad if you're at the periphery, but its pull is still there. Once you're..."

April 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Witless Protection

Larry the Cable Guy embarks on a new comic misadventure.

"...Directed by: Charles Robert Carner. Starring: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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