SXSW Film: Family Matters in The Overbrook Brothers

Austin filmmaker John Bryant draws on his own childhood traumas

"...Austin filmmaker John Bryant has either directed ("Momma's Boy"), crewed (the Duplass brothers' The Puffy..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Art of Schlock

A conversation with Shock Festival art director Tim Bradstreet

"...Festival to life, but none was more important to the project than the book's art director, Tim Bradstreet, an..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Sweetest Thing

"...Thomas Jane, Selma Blair, Christina Applegate and Cameron Diaz. The Sweetest Thing boasts a new development in the continuing..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Meet the Deedles

"...to not really being able to remember all of the Teenese from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure or Fast..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Beta Test

Jim Cummings burns the film industry to the ground (and it deserves it)

"...A scathing satire of both social media and the film industry, The Beta Test is an angry, fiery..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Faster Than Sound: Willie and a Movie

The Red Headed Stranger rides again at Luck Cinema's kickoff, thriving Austin rapper Ladi Earth can't be categorized, and more music news

"...to DVD. Following a limited national release in 1986, the onscreen adaptation of Willie Nelson's groundbreaking album by the..."

July 12, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

ATX Film News: Award Winners, Toxic Vengeance, and Cheaper Nights at the Drafthouse

"...Congratulations to A Room Full of Nothing: The Austin-made relationship dramedy about the end of the world..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: A Bad Case of the Sequels

Retreads, remakes, and do-overs rule the home releases

"...producer Keith Calder took to Twitter to ask, "What's the most recent wide-release, non-platformed horror film that wasn't a..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reflects Austin's culture in 1974

"...A dead armadillo in the middle of the highway. One of the first images..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'The 78 Project Movie'

With a hiss, crackle, and pop, musicians get to turn back time

"...The ineffable romance of old recordings makes for magic in..."

March 13, 2014 SXSW Post by Robert Faires

This Is the End

Be mindful when partying at James Franco's house: You could get stuck there for the apocalypse with Seth Rogen and Co.

"...The apocalypse is nigh. It’s a theme that’s showing up..."

June 14, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Voyage to the 'Hearts of Dorkness'

Patrick Read Johnson and the strange oddysey of 5-25-77

"...and film love." As Monday's last-minute test screening at the Alamo Drafthouse proved, it's a lot more than that...."

July 1, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All the Pain Platinum Can Buy

"...in separate interviews, months apart and fully outside each other's earshot, Miles Zuniga and Joey Shuffield both quote the..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Inventing the Abbotts

"...For Jacey Holt (Crudup), who lives with his widowed mother (Baker) and his younger brother Doug (Phoenix) in the..."

April 4, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Space and Distance: A Joint Interview With Balmorhea and Explosions in the Sky

How Austin’s landmark instrumental outfits soundtrack the state of Texas

"...Chris Hrasky wishes there was a better backstory to Big Bend (An Original..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Feature by Austin Powell

SXSW Film Q&A: John Lee Hancock on The Highwaymen

Texas director retells the Bonnie and Clyde story from the cops’ view

"...see Bonnie and Clyde as devil-may-care heroes careening through the South and making chumps of John Q. Law. It’s..."

March 9, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Mopping Up the Red in Green Room

Austinite Macon Blair on neo-Nazis and Patrick Stewart

"...It's always the quiet ones. In violent thriller Green Room, Macon Blair..."

April 22, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2014: Simon Barrett Brings The Guest

Scripter talks Faults, Halloween, and running out of bullets

"...eight of Fantastic Fest, and Simon Barrett may be the only person who doesn't look like 10 miles of..."

Sept. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sourcing 'The Signal'

William Eubank flips the switch

"...writer/director William Eubank to describe his new science-fiction puzzle, The Signal, and he thinks of a Russian nesting doll...."

June 13, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Fall Film Festival Season Takes Flight

Programming updates from AFF, Fantastic Fest, and aGLIFF

"...you've snarfed down what one festival has to offer, there's more fresh meat for the watching mere weeks away...."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Ass Paddling the Danish Way: 'Klown'-Style

The 'Klown' Rolling Roadshow Canoe Trip gets crunk, drunk, wet

"...There's nothing rotten in Denmark, or drought-plagued Central Texas, that..."

July 1, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Other Restaurant Row

The Food staff uncovers a burgeoning restaurant row on the South Shore.

"...Time was when the stretch of East Riverside Drive from I-35 to Pleasant..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...a singer-songwriter in Dallas before moving to Austin in the early Nineties. Her increasingly more frequent gigs please her..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Deep in the Art

How In the West Became Deep in the Heart (of Texas)

"...In the summer of 1985, troupe members of Austin's avant-garde Big..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

It's Not the Pot

Directing a Different Kind of Drug Movie

"...Whatever criteria are used when labeling a film `alternative' these days, it's certain that Use Your Head would qualify..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature

Gift Guide: The Movie of the Book

Five page-turners for the film fan in your life who wants the whole story

"...American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimerby Kai..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Unleashes the Midnighters

Mayhem, 68 Kill, plus Behind the Mask retrospective

"...sleep and gain bragging rights at SXSW. Just as the rest of the Festival has been heavy on world..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: The Path Back to Believing

It only takes a moment for the ordinary to transform

"...I'm here then I'm gone..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Film Treatment for the Really, Truly (No Kidding This Time) 'Last Picture Show'

The Rolling Roadshow takes over Archer City to screen Bogdanovich's classic among the people who inspired it

"...two-lane highway a few miles from Archer City, Texas. The red dirt on the roadside has been stripped bare..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Beyond the Multiverse

Author Michael Moorcock

"...way. But many Science Fiction/fantasy/comic readers have long heard the name mentioned in hushed tones by those who have..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Adrienne Martini

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