The Truman Show

Life is a 'round-the-clock “reality” TV program in this prescient film, and Truman Burbank (Carrey) is its unwitting subject/hero/leading man.

"...a disconcerting stance that intentionally teeters between comedy and Twilight Zone-like nightmare. It's unusually provocative and challenging for a..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mon Homme

"...of too many dark emotions colliding in the Lyons twilight...."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love Serenade

"...cloistered world of the Hurley sibs is a surreal twilight zone of mixed emotions, filled with garish, Kmart clothes..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tales From the Hood

"...(there's even a tip of the skull to several Twilight Zone episodes, not to mention Christopher Young's decidedly Zone-esque..."

June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema

"...of thematics from The Wizard of Oz and a Twilight Zone episode comes to mind. The narrative concerns a..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Last Days of Chez Nous

"...a microcosmic story of an extended family in the twilight hours before its final dissolution. Beth (Harrow) is a..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sandlot

The movie is a grown man's memory of his first, awkward summer in a new neighborhood in 1962 and the importance of baseball as a bonding activity.

"...collection: natural and without artifice as they experience the twilight of boyhood. Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) is..."

April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Indochine

"...captures -- mostly from the Eurocentric perspective -- the twilight years of France's golden, colonial grasp of Vietnam during..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

A Woman's Tale

"...Cox's film is a relentlessly honest glimpse into the twilight of one woman's life, and Florance, who was actually..."

July 17, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rush

Kim Wozencraft's semi-autobiographical novel is the source material for this film about a couple of cops in Beaumont, Texas, who become heavily involved in drug use while working deep undercover.

"...what we've done, it rings true. Living in the twilight, between right, wrong, legal, illegal, good, bad, is dangerous..."

Jan. 10, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

City Zero

"...life lived in the shadows of Stalinism and the Twilight Zone. Alexei (Filatov) is a Moscow engineer who arrives..."

Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Child's Play 3

"...so what we're getting here is like some warped Taps/Twilight Zone hybrid without the chutzpah. Director Bender has fashioned..."

Sept. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

1991 Festival of Animation

"...deftly knocks it out of cliche and into the Twilight Zone, but I've only got so much room to..."

Aug. 23, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slacker

Slacker's perception of our city's subcultures shows them not to be so marginal after all.

"...no suspense: just fleeting glimpses of bohemia in its twilight phase. Linklater inverts the basic motif behind almost every..."

July 5, 1991 Movie Review by Chris Walters

Just One Letter Away From Count Chocula

This toy's got teef!

"...All Hallow's Eve, but I just learned of this Twilightian dream-cum-true today...."

Oct. 30, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film Cops to Seth Rogen and More

SXSW Film announces the premiere of a new Seth Rogen comedy, as well as new panelist and docs

"...Also announced are a slew of panelists, including Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke (who’ll be inducted into this year's..."

Jan. 12, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin @ Large: End Games

The end of the Watson Era, Slusher's predicament, and corrected Austin demographics

"...mayor is displaying rare courage here. But in this twilight of the Watson Era, do we want the council..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Invitation

Tedious vampire flick should have stayed in the grave

"...It almost feels like yesterday that Twilight changed the course of young adult fiction as we..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Paul Metsa

Record review

"...Texas in the Twilight (Loud House)..."

June 24, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Darna Zaroori Hai

Unusual Bollywood film is an anthology horror film with segments directed by seven different directors.

"...they make the John Landis' tragically uncompleted segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie look like Kwaidan by comparison. Sajid..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Caroline Herring

Record Review

"...Caroline Herring Twilight (Blue Corn) What Caroline Herring does on Twilight, her..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

White Man's Burden

"...almost as if Ted Turner had resurrected some well-intentioned Twilight Zone and colorized it for the Nineties, diluting the..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival: The Golden Ages of Matthew Weiner

Mad Men auteur enters the Twilight Zone

"...Weiner himself took time out to honor Serling’s The Twilight Zone as a major formative influence on his work...."

Oct. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Michael Agresta

Screen Play

What to do at the writers' conference

"...imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. So went, in part, the intro to one..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

First Quarter

Bradley Jackson and Andrew Disney kick off a festival run of their new comedy about the importance of intramurals

"...The lead actress comes from Twilight. Her male counterpart played Pete Miller on the final..."

April 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Sunsets Explained

"...of the sun appears to vanish beneath the horizon, twilight begins. At this moment, the curtain of night appears..."

March 12, 2011 Postmarks

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...parents started reading the same thing. Others point to Twilight as the bellwether of the YA surge among both..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Target Markets

The Quintessential Guy Maddin!

"...traced in an accompanying Tom Waits-narrated doc, Waiting for Twilight. But equally powerful is his entirely original, idiosyncratic storytelling..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

There Will Be Blood

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

"...Twilight by another name, the immensely popular saga of vampires..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Something to Sink Your Teeth Into

Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke coming to the IMAX

"...Look, we don't really get the whole Twilight thing, but we've, er, osmosisified (nope, not a word)..."

Oct. 29, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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