Tru Blood Beverage--Just in Time for School!

The fictional beverage the vamps love on HBO's True Blood is coming to a grocery store near you.

"...Blech! Okay, it's not really blood in a bottle...."

July 28, 2009 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Blood Lust

'True Blood' fans invited to the Ultimate Fan Experience June 1.

"...of what’s coming with a free public event: the True Blood Ultimate Fan Experience...."

May 27, 2010 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

True Romance

"...(Reservoir Dogs) and directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun), True Romance is nothing if not consistently entertaining. It's the..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blood Simple: The Director's Cut

"...the out-of-town, filmmaking brother duo, Joel and Ethan Coen, Blood Simple grabbed the national spotlight with its audacious visual..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Land of Blood and Honey

Angelina Jolie steps behind the camera to helm this picture she also wrote, which focuses on the emotional fallout of the Bosnian War.

"...story at the center of In the Land of Blood and Honey, but the film’s true heart lies in..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood Simple

"...the out-of-town, filmmaking brother duo, Joel and Ethan Coen, Blood Simple grabbed the national spotlight with its audacious visual..."

July 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

We're still wild about Harry, even though this new adventure prefers to flush pink with its lovesick teens than forward-thrust toward the mammoth battle of good vs. evil.

"...Harry’s godfather, The Order of the Phoenix was tonally true to the deepening sinisterness of Rowling’s books: This is,..."

July 17, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn rides again in this Coen brothers' remake of the Western classic.

"...Barry Pepper and Elizabeth Marvel. Charles Portis’ best-selling novel True Grit provided the source material for the 1969 movie..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood and Chocolate

Lycanthropy and young love: not as yummy as it sounds but nowhere near as godawful as Van Helsing, a small mercy but very much appreciated.

"...it comes to teen angst and post-pubescent hormonal meltdown. Blood and Chocolate is based on Annette Curtis Klause's immensely..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Faster Than Sound: Blood Goes Big, Free Week Contracts

In the ATX music news: punk poetics by local septet Blood, January’s Free Week dates, and the Live Music Fund’s first feedback

"...Before local punk troupe Blood transformed into a sevenpiece, a smaller assemblage required vocalist..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Mastodon's 'Blood Mountain' Flows Into Austin

Coming down the mountain with Mastodon

"...Into the Void to unravel the band’s latest saga, Blood Mountain, and explain the difference between ligers and cysquatches...."

March 14, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Now Streaming in Austin: Nothing But The Blood

Austin-made evangelical horror sees the insidious terror of belief

"...Daniel Tucker, director of evangelical horror Nothing But The Blood, says it's because America is too young to know..."

Aug. 4, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: "Path of Blood"

Paper cuts are as strong as swords in this samurai animation

"...the edge with silk to razor fineness. It's not true, but its metaphorical meaning - that the greatest work..."

May 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ACL Interview: True Believers (Part I)

Reunited with blood fury and dedicated to Brent Grulke

"...bands” he’d ever seen. Many critics declared Austin’s legendary True Believers as one of the must-see acts at Zilker..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Crime Month: Investigating True Crime on Netflix

Which shows deliver the criminal goods and are worth the watch

"...True crime is big business these days (even the Duplass..."

July 25, 2018 Arts Post by Danielle White

Bog Bodies, Blood Pulling, and Muppets: Making the Monster of Boys From County Hell

How Chris Baugh raised the evil of Irish vampire

"...not sexy, and in Boys From County Hell, the bloodsucker is ancient, evil, and really look like its been..."

May 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bad Blood

Did the Austin Police Department Shut Down an Investigation of Its Own Cops?

"...a major undercover drug investigation, code-named Mala Sangre ("Bad Blood"). The accusations were originally made during this federally funded..."

Feb. 16, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Blood Feast

Shadow of the Vampire isn't just an imaginative riff on the making of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. "It is an allegory of an aspect of what cinema is at its heart," says director E. Elias Merhige. "It's this dangerous, mad kind of science."

"...pumps images into our souls just like hearts pump blood to our bodies. The flickering pulse of the images..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: 'Frightmare', 'The Flesh and Blood Show'

Redemption resurrects the legacy of terror maestro Pete Walker

"...really have that discussion without talking about the exploitation bloodbaths of Pete Walker...."

March 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...polishes it to eerie, greasy perfection. It finally does true service to the eye of cinematographer Daniel Pearl, who..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Blood & Fire

Manu Chao's ACL, ACL aftershow, and everything in-between.

"...of musical Navy SEALs barely had time to draw blood. At the point of encore, they almost had to..."

Sept. 22, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Blood and Memories

"...written in those pre-superstar days that SRV's music had "blood and memories" on it. They were words of frightening..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer

The shocking history of America's sleaziest tabloid

"...From its early days as a gore rag splashing blood-soaked photographs of car accident victims on its pages, the..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Blood on the Tracks

"...cover story in the Chronicle a few months ago ["Blood on the Tracks," Music, Feb. 6, 2009] – is..."

Feb. 1, 2010 Postmarks

Blood on the Tracks

The ballad of Griff Luneburg and Cactus Cafe

"...epiphany when he purchased an eight-track of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks in the mid-1970s...."

Feb. 6, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Payment in Blood

"...one month of war in Yugoslavia. The same was true of the Gulf War: Many more American children died..."

April 30, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Get to Know Austin R&B True Blue Alesia Lani

The ACL Fest performer invites listeners into her universe

"...include: "How could you deny your own flesh and blood/ Your own child/ What kind of man are you?"..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

True Norwegian Black Metal

"...– his black back scripted in large headstone lettering, “True Norwegian Black Metal,” could easily be excused if Behemoth..."

April 22, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin at Large: Blue Blood, From a Turnip

In voting-averse Texas, how can the “election integrity” juice be worth the squeeze?

"...won't encounter in future elections, but that's only partly true. As the Texas Democratic Party's own postmortem deep dive..."

March 19, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Thriller Coyote Lake Draws Suspense From True Crime

On the shores of the border with filmmaker Sara Selig­man

"...[and] the fun stuff with the guns and the blood." Yet, as a woman making a violent crime flick,..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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