Michael & Us

Canadian filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine set out to celebrate a lion of the left. They ended up with something a little different.

"...a fork in the road: This way lies the truth, and this way lies the celebratory film about Michael..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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"...game is "a clash of civilizations," perhaps there's some truth to that, but is U.S. foreign policy doing anything..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column

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"...'Chronicle' Needs to Print Truth!Dear Editor,..."

May 6, 2005 Column

Page Two

There's no such thing as a free road, there's no such thing as an objective documentary, and there might be no such thing as our 1,000th issue

"...It's the word "documentary," which has come to connote "truth." Outside of the eyes of God, "truth" is a..."

July 16, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Someday Still Wants More

Austin singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa is back with a shorter, spunkier 'do after a four-year absence.

"...look and sound of her new album, Sign of Truth, the best question turns out to be: Girl, where..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...Cold Hard Truth (Asylum) The George Jones Collection (MCA)..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

Payment in Blood

"...And all of this is done to mask the truth that we, as a culture, cannot face, a truth..."

April 30, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Separated at Birth?

"...and one renewed, series premiering this week: The Awful Truth (4/11, 8pm, Bravo) and Split Screen (4/10, 4:30pm, Independent..."

April 9, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

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

"...tale to be told than Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt, Tom J Stern's epic recounting of..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fly Me to the Moon

Scarlett Johansson is the best thing about this kinda-silly, kinda-sweet space-race rom-com

"...especially in the dangers of a flexible relationship to truth – but not incisive or insightful enough to land..."

July 12, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Sugar-sweet West End musical biopic is just saccharine

"...Film reviews, they’re supposed to tell the truth of one’s experience – so I want to be..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by James Scott

City of Lies

Time does no favors to this delayed investigation into Biggie’s murder

"...faith in the intelligence of the characters pursuing the truth. Sure, Whitaker plays Jackson as a self-avowed sellout, a..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Fantasy Island

Our advice? Get back on the plane

"...previously appeared in director Jeff Wadlow's last Blumhouse project, Truth or Dare) is an acid-tongued party girl who never..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

An assassination, a conspiracy, and decades of secrets unlocked in this chilling documentary

"...more Brügger and Björkdahl struggle to dig up the truth (literally, in one scene that finds Brügger probing the..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro

The author of The Path to Power shares the methods and motivations he employs while producing his award-winning biographies

"...defense: while I am aware that there is no Truth, no objective truth, no single truth, no truth simple..."

April 5, 2019 Arts Review by Roberto Ontiveros

The Hightower Report

Why is George Orwell’s 1984 a bestseller again?

"...any one group, but an essential and existential concept: truth. Bluntly put, he's psychotic, believing that "truth" is whatever..."

April 28, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

Austin Film Festival: Mental Illness in the Movies

Donnie Darko, Fight Club scribes on the sanity spectrum

"...Big Fish, August had to address the issue of truth. While truth is theoretically singular, in the movie, each..."

Oct. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Kill the Messenger

Jeremy Renner stars in this crusading-journalist story that recounts the downfall of real-life San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb.

"...painting him as a ceaseless pursuer of the ugly truth who runs smack up against an even more loathsome..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pause/Play

Filmmaker Andrew Shapter's battle to make art and beat cancer

"...to play; a feature film, The Teller & the Truth, five years in the making; and squamous cell carcinoma,..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Letters @ 3AM

Jo Carol Pierce's music says: Go the distance, baby, and find out – find you

"...Valentine's Day. Marcus just thought I should wear that truth around my neck, and I did, in a public..."

March 14, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Along the Bias

Lack of media objectivity cuts all ways

"...evil. Similarly, some believe that there is a concrete truth to any incident – that there is an objective,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: The Time of the Toad

The New McCarthyism, or why the way the Dixie Chicks incident passes into history matters

"...with whom you disagree). There is only the rock-solid truth pitted against consciously heinous lies, with no room for..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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"...Re: Interview with Chuck Klosterman ["Truth and Inconsequences," Books, Sept. 22]: I noticed in the..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column

Letters at 3AM

As we approach the most pivotal election since 1860, the work of Stirling Silliphant comes to mind because he shows that our present situation was not created by 9 / 11 but has been brewing for a long time

"...of adventure, romance, and, as they often say, "the truth." On their way they meet farmers and magnates, strippers..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

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"...Opinion and Truth in 'Fahrenheit 9/11'..."

July 30, 2004 Column

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on The Manchurian Candidate remake's script

"...disappointment) followed. Unfortunately, his last studio release, 2002's The Truth About Charlie, a remake of Charade, died at the..."

July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script

"...disappointment) followed. Unfortunately, his last studio release, 2002's The Truth About Charlie, a remake of Charade, died at the..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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"...by respected workers whose occupation is to find the truth...."

Jan. 9, 2004 Column

People Who Agree With Me Are Godly; Those Who Don't Are Not

"...by respected workers whose occupation is to find the truth. The citation for the Finland study is: Suicides After..."

Jan. 6, 2004 Postmarks

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"...I greatly appreciate your truthful exposure of Austin's social ills, including our tight job..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column

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