The Shadow

"...Peter Boyle, Jonathan Winters, Tim Curry and Sab Shimono. “The weed of crime bears bitter fuit.” Early in this..."

July 8, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Female camaraderie, nostalgic sentimentality, and emotional catharsis are back in this sequel: The film hits its marks but lacks real depth.

"...Ticotin. If you had any notions of getting through The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 without having your..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

DVDanger: Ryan Reynolds, the Most Interesting Man in the World

How Van Wilder became Hollywood's most unpredictable talent

"...If Ryan Reynolds were the actor everyone thinks he is, he would take easy..."

May 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Invasion of the Lit Flix

Literary Classics Rush the Screen

"...Now is the winter of our... literary classics on film...."

Nov. 8, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The World Is Flat

How King of the Hill helped make Texas three-dimensional again

"...– a baffled Hank Hill to son, Bobby, in the series finale of King of the Hill..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Ruling the Roost

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

"...If he hadn't been driving the getaway car, Tim O'Connor might have punched Willie Nelson...."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...The Paramount Theatre's Summer Film Classics features mostly double bills..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

The Out-of-Print VHS Titles You might never find on DVD

"...The format wars leave casualties: Films that perhaps were once..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

A Tale of Two Comics

Comedy Contrast: Bill Hicks & David Letterman

"...don't realize that stand-up comedy is a form of theatre and should be judged by the highest standards. As..."

March 21, 1997 Arts Feature by Harvey Pekar

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...pace. Multiplying faster than partridges in pear trees, during the next five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day,..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Five Live Performances to Make You Laugh and Think

From musical spoofs to Broadway classics, the best of the Austin stage

"...you'll cry, you'll remember what entertainment was like before these damned 'ronas came to town, as some of this..."

July 8, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Elegy

In this smart adaptation of Philip Roth's A Dying Animal, Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz turn the table on the standard May-December romance.

"...student, many years his junior. Consuela is not unlike the others who annually fall sway to his lust, yet..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...has announced its first wave of programming for 2021. The headliner? Titane, Julia Ducournau's Cannes Palme D'Or award-winning story..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

Michael

Travolta plays an unkempt, beer-swilling, Beatles-quoting angel who – yes – also dances.

"...in with comeback kid John Travolta he was channeling the powers of higher intelligence in the crypto-spiritual barnstormer Phenomenon...."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...The worst part about summer is everyone demanding that you..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Arabian Knight

"...Directed by: Richard Williams. Starring: Jennifer Beals, Matthew Broderick, Vincent Price, Toni Collette, Eric Bogosian and Jonathan..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...been up with comedy, and a quick skim of the just-released feature lineup shows the fest continuing the trend,..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...years and counting can't slow down SXSW Film. As the festival enters its second quarter-century, A Quiet Place –..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Dark Times in Austin With Noir City

The czar of noir Eddie Muller on Walter White and classic dread

"...town, and is set to put you wise about the best of Hollywood's most sinister era, savvy?..."

Feb. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dancing About Architecture

The usual suspects return: Miles Zuniga, Daniel Johnston, Sandra Bullock, Bob Schneider, and the Asylum Street Spankers; also, Patti Smith returns to Austin for SXSW, as do a bunch of other people.

"...our necks, believe it or not, with this being the last Chronicle before the Austin Music Awards kicks off..."

March 10, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Sundance Report

Negotiating hail, high altitude, and movies galore

"...Today, at the near-halfway point of the festival, I took it as..."

Jan. 26, 2010 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chapter Two: Wasota African Cuisine

Trailer presents a second chance for locally-loved chef

"...Sitting quietly at the corner of Bluebonnet and S. Lamar is an unassuming..."

Oct. 30, 2013 Food Post by Gracie Salem

DVD Watch: 'Freaked'

Alex Winter talks cult classics and the Butthole Surfers

"...Twisted hideous monsters. Cows in hats. The Butthole Surfers. Alex Winter's lost gem Freaked, which arrives..."

Aug. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...We had a little bit of the Christmas morning feeling when the complete lineup for the..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week "This indictment is nothing more than prosecutorial retribution..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature

Further Reflections

"...Elizabeth Hurley at the EDtv premiere at the Paramount Theatre. photograph by John..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

The Night of the Hunter

1955's The Night of the Hunter stars the terrifying Robert Mitchum as a reverend with an evil-Elvis swagger, complete with knuckles on his right-hand tattooed with "LOVE" and knuckles on his left with "HATE."

"...The Night of the Hunter (1955)D: Charles Laughton; with Robert..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Let Him Go

Superman's parents get caught up in a Western noir

"...if you half-expected Superman to fly in to save the day in the Western thriller Let Him Go. That’s..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

Last Man Standing

"...(Willis) as a drifting mercenary gunman who comes into the parched, fictional West Texas town of Jericho and finds..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Screens Feature

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