The Magnificent Seven

Why three records are better than two

"...By 1980, the Clash had fallen in love with New York, holing..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Persephone Station Recasts the Magnificent Seven as Women in Space

Austin author Stina Leicht pens a rip-roaring mix of planetary intrigue, intergalactic adventure, and righteous sisterhood

"...afraid to take big leaps with her fiction, from Northern Ireland to an alternate America to the far reaches..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Arts Feature by Mike Berry

The Magnificent Six

Local stores prep for Free Comic Book Day

"...Yesterday, we told you about all the the comics on offer, all completely free and gratis,..."

May 6, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

The Magnificent Six

The cast and crew of the locally made omnibus film Six in Austin celebrate with a screening.

"...There's nothing like a great, locally made short film --..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The First Monday in May

The Met's annual ball thrown by its Costume Institute gets its close-up

"...The basement placement of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Mist

There's "something in the mist," and it's not only the beasts that bite but also the dark things that reside within.

"...Sternhagen, Jeffrey DeMunn, Alexa Davalos and Nathan Gamble. My mother, who was a young girl during World War II,..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fearless Freaks

Documentary about the band the Flaming Lips – the crazy/bizarre Oklahoma outfit that, despite itself, rose to national prominence.

"...a fan of OK City’s drug-drenched, psychedelic punk freakazoids the Flaming Lips, but really, this supremely bizarre Long John’s..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All the Real Girls

"...Benjamin Mouton, Maurice Compte, Danny McBride and Shea Wingham. There’s a Silver Jews song called "Inside the Golden Days..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Staycationer: Hotel ZaZa Austin

Your Close-to-Home Guide to Getting Away

"...Before the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and lockdown restrictions, Austin tourism was..."

April 14, 2021 Food Post by Veronica Meewes

The Dangerous World of Jean-Paul Belmondo

AFS explores the action star beyond Breathless

"...The spectrum of cool can be a fluid and fickle..."

July 6, 2018 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

The Trip to Italy

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continues their journeys as a couple of guys attached at the funny bone.

"...The premise is deceptively simple: A couple of British gents..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Comedy

Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric renown) plays a rich, cynical hipster who uses New York City as his playground.

"...In Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, 35-year-old Swanson (Tim Heidecker) is the vilest imaginable..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

The Hunter

Willem Dafoe plays a Canadian tracker hunting presumed-extinct prey in Tasmania, but soon he's stalking humans as well.

"...Directed by: Daniel Nettheim. Starring: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgana Davies, Frances O'Connor..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Secret World of Arrietty

This new animated film from Japan's Studio Ghibli is based on The Borrowers, a story about 4-inch-tall people who live undetected among their human hosts.

"...If the premise of this Studio Ghibli-produced tale of tiny people..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Warrior's Way

An Asian assassin seeks refuge in a small town in the American Badlands where ninjas and cowboys duke it out.

"...a strange, not-quite-successful but visually entertaining attempt to merge the tropes of the classic American Western with those of..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Kid

The tale of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid gets a worthwhile if workmanlike retelling

"...why a new movie about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid can be greeted with anticipation rather than tired..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Watch: 'The Stranger'

Orson Welles directs and stars in noir about a Nazi hiding in plain sight

"...Not to be confused with Camus’ 1942 novel, the 1946 film noir The Stranger (Kino Classics, Blu-ray $34.95)..."

Oct. 15, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Sunny Side to Every Situation

Defending Ethan Hawke and the virtues of John Wayne in a wet shirt

"...even after I admitted I should lose. That is either blind devotion, or you didn’t actually bother to read..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fantasia Review: Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

Inside the mind and art of France's genius of decay

"...There's a long list of horror directors (William Lustig, Abel..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance Review: Prisoners of the Ghostland

Cage/Sono styles clash in underwhelming cowboy/ronin/gangster film

"...The Western and the samurai film have always locked step...."

Feb. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'The Intergalactic Nemesis' in Four Colors

Is the world's first live action graphic novel a good graphic novel?

"...The Intergalactic Nemesis has been called the world's first live..."

Aug. 11, 2012 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"...was a pivotal year for America, for Austin, for the embattled world-at-large, but most of all for the Mighty..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...not in a meteorological sense but a literary one. The Texas Book Festival has released the full list of..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...Readers and fans of the literary, you might want to grab a napkin before..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden

The exhibition "Charles Umlauf: A Retrospective, 1933-1992" at the gallery Spazio by Lytle Pressley, is a fresh reminder that Umlauf was an artistic virtuoso in many ways and not simply an artist who lived in Austin, but an artist who was Austin, who embodied something of the character of the city and revealed it in his artwork.

"...The small bronze sculpture offers a modest depiction of a..."

June 1, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Boy Wonder at 100

Alamo Drafthouse screens Orson Welles centennial retrospective

"...The life and career of Orson Welles is so vast..."

April 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Killer

This is the film that made John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat household names within action-crazed American households. Elements of conventional melodrama and criminal double-crosses blend in this story about a hitman conducting one last job to earn the money to restore the eyesight of a woman he had previously blinded.

"...Chu Kong and Sally Yeh. Love is strange; in The Killer, it's batshit crazy. This latest example of the..."

April 19, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Beyond the Clouds

"...has always been haunted by unseen realities. Essential though they are, images are little more than hazy signposts that..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Grandfather

"...about as exciting as watching bugs sleep, due to the film's stodgy formalism. Calling The Grandfather glacial does a..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Legends of the Fall

"...question about it: Brad Pitt is gorgeous. Legends of the Fall exhibits that in spades. But, somehow, it doesn't..."

Jan. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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