Apollo 18

This secretive film's premise is that it reveals suppressed footage of the U.S. government's secret mission to the moon.

"...In short-handing Apollo 18, there is the obvious comparison, The Blair Witch Project; the..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: Dead Ringers

Re-examining Cronenberg's overlooked masterpiece now on Blu-ray

"...Cinema has two of the most perfectly chilling insights into the messianic complex of..."

Nov. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...Wyatt Roberts is telling other people how to live when, as an admitted virgin,..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Ripple Effect

Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.

"...in questions. Big questions, weighty questions, questions rich in spiritual possibility and insight. Where do we find happiness? How..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Halfway Home

The Los Angeles County of Art's exhibition "The Road to Aztlan, Art From a Mythic Homeland" includes a wondrous survey of pre-conquest Mesoamerican art, but when it comes to contemporary Chicano works, the "road" doesn't take us all the way home.

"...Like Atlantis, Camelot, Eden, the Ark of the Covenant, or Excalibur, the existence of..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Billy Corgan on the Smashing Pumpkins, the Source Family, and Sky Saxon

"...friend, and I think my family enlightened him to the name God Yahowha."..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...a half-dozen titles, SXSW Film has finally drawn back the curtain on its 2016 lineup...."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...The young, tall black man careens through the dance floor,..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Larkin's Journey

New York choreographer Regina Larkin keeps coming back to Ballet East

"...1989, at an international peace festival in Baghdad celebrating the end of Iraq's seven-year war with Iran, Regina Larkin..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

Fairytale: A True Story

"...with a Midg lightweight camera borrowed from Elsie's dad. They returned with pictures that brought the spiritualist craze of..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

High Tech vs. High Touch

The midwifery debate is not new in Austin -- a Chronicle reprint from June 18, 1993

"...note: This article is a reprint, originally published in The Austin Chronicle June 18, 1993...."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Luv Doc: Square Pegs

You have to allow people the space to build the walls that make them feel safe

"...recently divorced, middle-aged, white male and am back on the dating scene after nearly two decades in mothballs. I..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Machine Gun Preacher

Gerard Butler and Michael Shannon star in this drama about a reformed bruiser and drug addict who now rescues children from the conflict in Sudan.

"...somewhere between bloodthirsty nihilism and an unshakable belief in the twinned powers of religious redemption and obsession, Machine Gun..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I'm just now getting around to accessing the Chron via the Internet in the Balkans, where I've..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...her letter (Sept. 28), especially regarding Belinda Acosta and the "TV Eye" column. I can't imagine why Dr. Austen..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...The Reasons Behind the Attack..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

Total Eclipse

"...Directed by: Agnieszka Holland. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer and Dominique Blanc. This never less-than-fascinating bio-pic..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Renee Davis' 25 Years as Harriet Tubman in Sister Moses

The dancer talks about her quarter-century of walking in the footsteps of this legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad

"...footsteps for a quarter of a century. For in the dance drama Sister Moses: The Story of Harriet Tubman,..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Inside Llewyn Davis

The latest from the Coen Brothers nails the Sixties folk-music scene, and delivers another of their memorably flawed heroes.

"...Shot in winter grays with no warming ambers and the whiff of tuberculosis hanging around all the players, Inside..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fortunate Son

The Return of John Fogerty

"...On the Old Scorekeeper's great tote board in the sky, not..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Secretariat

Saddle up for some old-fashioned inspirational movie entertainment with Diane Lane in the lead as the owner of the famed Triple Crown winner.

"...for some old-fashioned inspirational movie entertainment as Disney mounts the story of horse-racing’s 1973 Triple Crown winner. Actually, the..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dead Man

Jarmusch's elegiac, black-and-white meditation is a dream in the form of a Western about the enterprise of America.

"...1991's Night on Earth is a marked departure from the director's previous outings. For one thing, it's a Western,..."

May 24, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Break On Through

Doors drummer John Densmore riffs on commercial licensing

"...After penning 1991’s Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors,..."

May 7, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Dispatches From a New Decade of SXSW

Our favorite musical moments from the fest

"...The first South by Southwest to transpire this decade felt..."

March 25, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

For His Dance (Re)current Unrest, Charles O. Anderson Keeps Moving

Through the pandemic and other obstacles, the choreographer and UT teacher continues to adapt

"..."Like so many of us, these pandemics – COVID-19 and ongoing systemic racism – have..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Improvising Every Second

The secret history of Austin Circle of Theaters director Latifah Taormina, from Second City to the Committee and beyond

"...People will surprise you. Everyone you meet brings with them an entire novel's worth of stories. It's the discovery..."

March 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

ACL Prime Time

Blurbs to ACL Music Fest by.

"...shortage of food that could have used intervention from the Red Cross, it was still the most obvious response..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Music Feature

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...Songs Sung and Played on Guitar at the Same Time (Shockorama)..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

A Progressive Pilgrim’s Progress

Robert Jensen's new memoir is an extended meditation on his tentative return to the Presbyterian church of his youth.

"...own UT homepage) have not yet caught up with the change. As it happens this time, the peripatetic journalism..."

June 10, 2009 Books Post by Michael King

Media Watch

With circulation sliding, Austin American-Statesman turns to heavens for help

"...With circulation continuing to slide and the media world a throbbing mass of confusion, the Austin..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature by Kevin Brass

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