DVDanger: 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown

Can the WWE make an action star out of Dean Ambrose?

"...The best wrestlers are some of the most rounded performers..."

Dec. 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Richard Jenkins Wields a Bone Tomahawk

Old Western horror with the Six Feet Under star

"...clear Sheriff Franklin Hunt (Kurt Russell) would be half the man he is without his back-up deputy Chicory (Richard..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Quicksand

Between politics and principle lies the quagmire of ideological righteousness

"...The time of the night riders is back – except..."

April 15, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Scanlines

The Last Frankenstein

"...horror film with a quirky sense of black humor, The Last Frankenstein is a wildly ambitious, fiercely intelligent picture..."

May 5, 1995 Screens Column

You Are Entering Harlan County

Justified creator Graham Yost exits Kentucky for the ATX Television Festival

"..."They had dug coal together as young men and then..."

June 5, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...Texas Book Festival authors, friends, and coordinators gathered at The Contemporary Austin tonight to share some exciting..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on The Manchurian Candidate remake's script

"...has been a friend since before we even started the Chronicle. Over the years, Demme has graduated from critical..."

July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script

"...has been a friend since before we even started the Chronicle. Over the years, Demme has graduated from critical..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...and she's promised to bring her latest production -- the soundtrack to her new novel, The Yokota Officers Club...."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Cowboys and Controversy

Kyle Henry and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...documentary American Cowboy - which screens next Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the ongoing Texas Documentary..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters @ 3AM

Fifty years ago, almost all movies were made for adults, yet children went to see them on their own or with others, and in the process, learned the mysteries of our cultural ideology.

"...July 25] -- in that piece I wondered about the effect of today's movie superheroes on little children as..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Unforgiven

Eastwood's multiple award-winning Western.

"...Fisher. Eleven years earlier, William Munny (Eastwood) gave up the outlaw life to marry and settle down, eventually having..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Twenty-One

"...knot: how to tell a story about callow, young searchers without, in turn, erecting a structure that echoes all..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alex Cox Blows!

Alex Cox cancels

"...and director of Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, and the forthcoming Searchers 2.0, has inexplicably and, to our minds,..."

May 15, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Desert Island Films

"...These lists, I'm sure, were simply designed to drive the..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Find Creativity, Karaoke, and Even a Casket in This Week’s Recommended Events

Art and death become you

"...Kids Club: The Muppets Take Manhattan..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Screens Feature

Classic films at the Paramount, all summer long

"...are on sale now and are available only at the Paramount box office, 713 Congress. For information, call 472-5470...."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature

Page Two

Peckinpah rides again at the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...by a doorway. He stands still, one hand rubbing the opposite elbow. The man is tall and big, standing..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Louis Black

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

Searching for Cynthia Ann

Glenn Frankel's new book untangles the true story behind 'The Searchers'

Feb. 15, 2013 Books Feature by Amy Gentry

Say What Answers

"...1) June 3: The Searchers at Old Fort Parker in Groesbeck..."

May 27, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Little Big Man

Arthur Penn's film is an eclectically epic anti-Western that turns Ford's red-hued racist conventions on their ear.

"...of his career portraying Native Americans as murderous savages (The Searchers, anyone?), finally offering up a belated apology with..."

June 13, 2003 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Eve Monsees & the Exiles

Texas platters

"...Eve Monsees & the Exiles(Serpent) Opening her debut with "Surprise, Surprise" is a..."

April 23, 2004 Music Review by Margaret Moser

'High Noon' Hits Just as Hard After Dark

UT's RTF Community Screenings leads off with iconic Western

"...One of the RTF department's most beloved professors, not to mention a..."

Feb. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2017

"...1) The Shape of Water..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stagecoach

John Wayne has been called many things, but "beautiful" isn't often one of them

"...called many things, but "beautiful" isn't often one of them. In Stagecoach, he was beautiful: a young California Adonis..."

June 16, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Dust and Bones

Cannibal Western Bone Tomahawk finds true gristle

"...just for revisionism's sake. He wanted to focus on the blood and heart he so often found missing from..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Have Car, Will Travel for Film

John Wayne Film Festival

"...Should the big guy, John Wayne, be more your cup of..."

April 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...stories (although categorized as a serial novel) is even further over the top than his previous works, most notably..."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Duke Ellington The Duke: The Essential Collection 1927-1962 (Columbia)

Reissues

"...Duke EllingtonThe Duke: The Essential Collection 1927-1962 (Columbia) How did someone..."

May 19, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

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