SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...be kicking off its 2025 Film & TV Festival with The Studio, the new Apple TV+ half-hour series from..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The Hunt for Planet B

We’re gonna need a bigger telescope ...

"...“In our own Milky Way Galaxy there are a hundred billion stars, and we now believe..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Great Buck Howard

Appearing as the has-been mentalist Buck Howard, John Malkovich delivers another memorably eccentric performance.

"...Blunt, Ricky Jay, Tom Hanks and Steve Zahn. Disillusioned with law school, Troy Gabel (Colin Hanks) drops out to..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Newton Boys

"...Directed by: Richard Linklater. Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dwight Yoakam,..."

March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Comedy Review: Cavett on Comedy With Dave Hill

Dick Cavett's fave talk-show moments and friendship with Ali

"...Dick Cavett was friends with Groucho Marx, frenemies with Norman Mailer, confidant of Bette..."

March 12, 2018 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Turns the Tables on Comedy Connoisseur Dick Cavett

The veteran talk-show host matters because he took the art of being funny seriously

"...this month, a diminutive Nebraskan muscled his way onto the cluttered TV talk-show landscape, carving out a tiny spot..."

March 9, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

Behold a Pale Horse: the White Horse Turns Ten with No Signs of an Apocalypse

A look back at the early days of the “black sheep” of Austin honky-tonks

"...not going to hear many references to growing up with butlers, maids, or mansions on a Johnny Cash record..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Post by Gary Lindsey

A Curiosity, Tough to Crack

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Don Bernier's 'In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian'

"...Comparisons to wacky Edie Beale of the Maysles' Grey Gardens – perhaps even to Miss Havisham..."

June 9, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Good Humor Man

Former 'Seinfeld' writer Pat Hazell is funny, upbeat, generous, and, oh, yeah, he lives here now

"...Lazy lakes of gravy fill your plate tonight...."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

An Honest Liar

Bio-doc about world-famous magician James "The Amazing" Randi

"...people, as long as you’re doing that to teach them a lesson to better their knowledge of how the..."

April 17, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...They're not looking to get signed at South by Southwest..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Sound Unseen Drops Full Playlist

Online music film fest adds Bee Gees, Sound of Metal

"...Get ready for a heavy story with pounding rhythms: Sound Unseen Film/Music Festival, the hybrid tunes..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Trail of Crumbs Down Memory Lane: 'Pioneers of Television'

Season four debuts tonight on KLRU with 'Standup to Sitcom'

"...The fourth season of the Emmy-nominated documentary series Pioneers of..."

April 15, 2014 Screens Post by Anne Harris

Sammy Allred Dead at 84

Geezinslaw Brother and institutional ATX deejay passes

"...Sammy Allred, singer and mandolin player in hillbilly humorists the Geezinslaw Brothers and longtime local deejay, has died at..."

May 10, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Soldier of Fortune

Comic Steven Wright offers observations on his return to short film, "One Soldier," the pressure of following up an Academy Award, and this bad trick called life.

"...a mind that has spent many hours in contemplation. With his lethargic monotone and turtle's pace delivery, Wright offers..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Presto con Fuoco

For violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, life is best played fast and fiery

"...For much of the past year, Anne Akiko Meyers' life has been moving..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum in Plano offers all things buggy, if you've got the stomach for it

"...The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum enshrines the most famous..."

May 19, 2006 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Stand-Up Guy

Steve Martin didn't just incorporate a banjo into his early comedy routines for a laugh

"...Growing up with a frustrated comedian for a father, I recall Steve..."

April 23, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Where He Got That Pony

Steven Wright on his inspirations and stand-up origins

"...and experiences – come out of no comedy tradition the way jokes about politicians and mothers-in-law do. While they..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TV Eye: No Matter Where You Go, There You Are

Conan returns to late-night television

"...This week's premiere of Conan, O'Brien's new late-night talk show on basic cable network TBS, following his very public..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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..."

March 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

Country Doctor

The Pickin' Singin' Professor, Rod Moag

"...I'm not the kind of scholar who likes spending endless hours in..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

TV Eye

I'm going to Vegas, baybee! For work, of course.

"...Well, by the time you read this, I'll have gone and returned,..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Found a Job

If your job isn't what you love, then something isn't right

"...About Buildings and Food arrived in my mail at the Austin Sun sometime in 1978 and languished in the..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Austin's bands of tomorrow are already here, they're just U18

"...Despite the local proliferation of music schools, teen bands are considered..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

Live From New York … the sometimes sordid history of Saturday Night Live.

"...Think creating a live variety show week after week is like that chummy writers' den..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...Don Walser at the granddaddy of South Austin live music venues, the Broken..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

DVDs

Gift guide

"...Seinfeld: The First Three SeasonsColumbia Tristar Home Entertainment; $49.95 (one &..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Recommended at Texas Book Festival

Capsule reviews and panel info

"...The Fifty Year Swordby Mark Z. Danielewski Pantheon, 288 pp.,..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature

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