Lit-urday: The Realist

This is what it's like when you're a man, a husband, a father, an artist.

"...about something that's got visuals even more striking than the powerful textual and subtextual parts of its compelling whole?..."

Nov. 7, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Heidi Pitre: Southern Peculiar" at the Butridge Gallery

In this solo exhibition, the South will rise again – not unlike a sort of puckish zombie made of cultural memories and witchy girlparts

"...no one else has ever been allowed to see, the one about the series of murders in a small..."

May 31, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach paints a grim realist portrait that captures the solemnity of an Ireland turning on itself and the tragedy of two brothers spiraling away from each other.

"...his first American triumph, playing a sinister psychologist in the stylish Batman Begins, Irish heartthrob Murphy seemed primed and..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Angels' Share

Scottish social-realist director Ken Loach is back with a new movie about young delinquents and a whisky-distillery heist.

"...Veteran social-realist director Ken Loach, 76, may be at his spunkiest..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Dancer in the Dark

Björk goes goes to the death chamber in musical interludes.

"...Directed by: Lars Von Trier. Starring: Björk, David Morse, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Stormare, Vincent Paterson, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour,..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fever

Brazilian realist drama pitches modern man against modernity

"...Recently, there’s been something amiss with Justino (Myrupu). It’s been 20..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

Romero revivifies even more zombies with this new picture, but now the filmmaker depicts humankind as hardly worth saving.

"...Kathleen Munroe, Julian Richings, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick and Athena Karkanis. Remember the scene in Romero’s original Dawn of..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The History Boys

If you like your British movies quick, raunchy, reflective, and bittersweet, then The History Boys, based on the stage play, is for you.

"...like your British movies quick, raunchy, reflective, and bittersweet, then The History Boys is for you. Based on the..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Passion in the Desert

"...Starring: Ben Daniels and Michel Piccoli. In Passion in the Desert the love that dare not speak its name..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Under the Skin

"...one of whom descends into a self-destructive spiral after the sudden death of their mother. We are told at..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The White Balloon

"...crowd-pleaser. This first feature by Jafar Panahi won both the Camera d'Or and the International Critics' Prize at Cannes..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lovely Sparrows Questions the Occult in New Video

“Shake the Shadow” spooks up stop motion animation

"...Following a seven-year hiatus, the Lovely Sparrows’ end-of-2018 LP Shake the Shadow begged the..."

Feb. 20, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Now Streaming in Austin: "The Outfit"

Yen Tan's political comedy "The Outfit" asks if the clothes make the man

"...Do clothes make the man? That's the question underlying "The Outfit,"..."

June 7, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Mondo Con: The Third Coming

Print, poster, and collectibles celebration announced

"...Mondo may as well just change their name to "Shut Up and Take My Money." The..."

July 27, 2016 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Mondo Ascends to the 'Game of Thrones'

Gallery show and new prints for the HBO fantasy smash

"...be hosting a new show featuring art inspired by the HBO sensation Game of Thrones, and are launching a..."

Feb. 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Vaults: Angry Old Man

Before he was in 'Quartet,' Tom Courtenay was part of a much bigger club

"...Courtenay plays a retired opera singer suddenly thrust into the same path as his ex-wife. He spends the first..."

Jan. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Back in the Mirror

First-time director Niels Mueller on 'The Assassination of Richard Nixon'

"...Niels Mueller's The Assassination of Richard Nixon manages the rare trick of..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A War on Passivity: Rick Alverson and Tye Sheridan Climb The Mountain

The confrontational director challenges audiences to work once again

"..."Bloated, pacified bodies, fed on a steady diet of anasthesia." Rick Alverson is blunt in his description of his..."

Aug. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Future Was in Toronto

Toronto International Film Festival showcased the fall's big films

"...Every September, after the close of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), we..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cine Las Americas Explores the Global Faces of Latino and Indigenous Cinema

Not just the border

"...There's a misconception about Cine Las Americas. Festival director Jean..."

April 27, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: From the Dark

Star and director talk monsters, mud, and New Kids on the Block

"...When writer/director Conor McMahon created new vampire flick From the Dark, he deliberately stripped its down to the barest..."

April 11, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: In the Moment

New novel finds John Sayles at the peak of his powers

"...About: The French New Wave, the United States at the turn..."

July 22, 2011 Column by Louis Black

The Outlaw

Alex Cox, still shooting film, and the finger, after all these years

"...Alex Cox is dispatching from deep in the Oregon woods, hunkered away from the light and the..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

LoneStarCon 3: The Jo Walton Interview

The Hugo-winning author of 'Among Others' really loves books

"...will love you back.” So says Morwenna "Mori" Phelps, the 15-year-old protagonist of Jo Walton’s weird, wonderful, genre-bending book..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

Making the Scene

Looking back at the time when Austin was at the center of the Texas art world

"...art-history class has probably felt a little inundated by the parade of "-isms," movements, and schools that generally shape..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema

Sept. 4-Oct. 9

"...8, 1956, a play opened at London's Royal Court Theatre that turned the London cultural establishment on its ear..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters at 3AM: Behold The Maslin

The Maslin is not a person but, rather, a function of virtually every book-review staff in the Western world

"...a movie trailer, a sonorous voice would intone: "Some there are who live and die for literature. Others live..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Sterling Allen: The Allen transformer as self-generator ...

Sterling Allen's irrational, exuberant drawings in the exhibit 'Writesy Drawsy' are so decisive in placement and texture that they immediately send you to a happy place as a viewer

"...The recent drawings by Sterling Allen, as seen in the..."

June 29, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

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