TV Eye

Las Vegas and Lee Kyung Hae?

"...seem strange to mention gambling and Lee Kyung Hae, the South Korean farmer who killed himself at last week's..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Operation Dumbo Drop

"...irresponsible picture that seems shamefully patterned after director's Wincer's other box office success, Free Willy. The first feel-good family..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...Start your SXSW Film Festival planning now: the annual celebration of screens large and small has announced..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...After poring over the hundreds of stage productions, concerts, and art exhibitions mounted..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Adventureland

Adventureland is a confident return to the kind of teen comedy that’s funny without being raunchy and youthful without being juvenile.

"...Wendie Malick and Josh Pais. Amazingly, Adventureland is only the third feature film on talented director Mottola’s résumé. In..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW 2019 Film Awards

All the winners from this year’s jury competitions

"...Special Jury Recognition: “The Orphan” (D: Carolina Markowicz) Documentary Shorts Competition..."

March 15, 2019 Screens Feature

Austin Beer Guide Reveals (Notjusta) Spring/Summer Release Party Beer List

Fifth anniversary shindig promises special taps, hangovers

"...If you enjoy the wit and wisdom of the internet – but in..."

April 26, 2016 Food Post by Eric Puga

Five Recommended Austin Arts Events this Weekend

Instead of just staring dully at that Roseanne reboot, right?

"...of a television screen as your arteries harden is other than totally edifying – oh, heavens, no! Next you’ll..."

March 29, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Billy Harvey’s Headed Toward Danger

ATX wordsmith on acting, building mountains, and his inner finger

"...Billy Harvey recorded his new album over the last year in Austin, Santa Fe, and Los Angeles...."

July 31, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

'Mojo' Recommends

The best British music at SXSW as selected by 'Mojo' editor-in-chief Phil Alexander

"...Like Cat Stevens or the late, great John Martyn before him, Jay Jay Pistolet..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Five Bizarro Films at Fantastic Fest @Home

The strangest and most fearless of the streaming selection at this year's Fantastic Fest

"...Fantastic Fest 2022 may have flown into the cinematic night, taking the Oscar-ready big titles like Triangle..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

2018 Texas Teen Book Festival Lineup

Tenth fest brings YA stars Marissa Meyer, Patrick Ness, & more

"...The Texas Teen Book Festival turns 10 in 2018, and..."

July 25, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Stream Analysis

Dispatches from the couch

"...There's no avoiding this New World Order (no, not that..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

SXSW List No. 6

Ghostland struts, Suzanne Vega strums, Pat Benatar speaks

"...arrive like clockwork. Today’s batch of 156 acts brings the total to an estimated 1,412 and includes ATX electro-pop..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin City Limits Music Festival Aftershows Announced

More ACL means more aftershows – in four different cities

"...and, like all things pertaining to October’s marque festival, the performances are spreading out...."

Aug. 20, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Five Kaiju You'll Never See Coming

Before you see 'Pacific Rim,' expand your monster knowledge

"...so one day we could watch giant robots beat the snot out of giant monsters. This weekend, Westernized kaiju..."

July 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rectangular Packages With Ribbons

Maria Hong finds that everyone is adapting everywhere in her review of three of the year's most powerful photography collections.

"...(Steidl, $65) documents families sunbathing and swimming at a Southern Ukrainian seashore ringed with the local factories' smokestacks, tanks,..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Maria Hong

SXSW’s Big Third List

YFN Lucci, Wyclef Jean, Ought, and 572 more

"...Southwest programmers have stocked more than a quarter of the music lineup for the March mega conference. Big names..."

Jan. 10, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

2015 Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup

Foo Fighters, Drake, the Weeknd, and Deadmau5 top fall fest

"...ACL Fest stole its own thunder when the official website inexplicably posted, then deleted, the 2015 lineup..."

May 5, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup Unveiled

Fall free-for-all bags 134 acts minus black metal

"...annual bomb on our fair city minutes ago, revealing the full artist lineup for the 13th running of the..."

May 7, 2013 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

It Begins! SXSW Announces First Bands

Plus application date extended, and Hurricane Sandy relief fund

"...know, Fun Fun Fun Fest only just finished, but the busy beavers over at SXSW Music have just announced..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

TFPF Awards Filmmaker Grants

AFS' funding arm awards $121,000 to Texas filmmakers

"...Wondering what the future of Texas filmmaking looks like?..."

Aug. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

I Defy You, Ira Glass

"...better (and even more displeasing to you) comes along. Then I'll have two philosophies on life I can choose..."

Oct. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Mastodon's 'Blood Mountain' Flows Into Austin

Coming down the mountain with Mastodon

"...Like Iron Maiden and Megadeth before them, Atlanta’s Mastodon spew epically proportioned tales led by the..."

March 14, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

TIFF Notes

What I took away from the Toronto International Film Festival

"...Instead of searching for the themes, commonalities, and distinctions among the 300-plus films screening..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...blockbusters which whisked us through worlds of pure imagination. These otherworldly adventures -- which include Raiders of the Lost..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Gods and Monsters

The final days of the man behind Hollywood's Frankenstein

"...In 1957, Golden Age of Hollywood director James Whale was found dead – a suicide – in the..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Frankenstein's Dad

"...Some of the best films seem to come out of nowhere, unexpected,..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Whale Hunt: Two Years on the Olympic Peninsula With the Makah and Their Canoe

"...A Whale HuntTwo Years on the Olympic Peninsula With the Makah..."

March 9, 2001 Books Review by Dan Oko

Darkness With a Twist of Dime-Store Novel

White Whale Games brings the pulp-fiction aesthetic into the Aughties

"...A nefarious, unknowable force travels the universe, washing away the history of the worlds it..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

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