The Happening

In M. Night Shyamalan's mystery spooker, logic-defying episodes of death and destruction suddenly erupt across America.

"...the Sci Fi Channel gave Shyamalan his own weekly Twilight Zone knockoff. Call it Creepslow, or maybe Not-Quite-Night Gallery..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fuse Box by Day

Schedule

"...Twilight of the Little Boxes..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Taxi to the Dark Side

Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the patterns of abuse committed by American armed forces against enemy combatants in Iraq and elsewhere. Instead of bad apples, he finds bad orders.

"...of command and eventually grew into the surreal, nightmarish twilight zone that eventually came to light in April 2004..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Starting Out in the Evening

In this contemplative meditation on the pained aging of literary lions, Frank Langella delivers a brilliant performance as the story's elderly New York City novelist.

"...tend to bathe everything in a warm and burnished twilight glow) but instead mourn the loss of civility and..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Nines

Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, and Hope Davis star in three discrete but thematically linked short films in this feature-film-directing debut from screenwriter John August.

"...initially the film plays like The Prisoner meets The Twilight Zone. However, by the time this three-segment film unspools..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seven Days in Heaven and Hell

Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest

"...Dead, George A. Romero, whose fourth sojourn into the twilight world between your heartbeat and their teeth – Diary..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Abandoned

Creepy Eastern European atmospherics encase this horror film, which nevertheless suffers from an anemic script.

"...solicitor, Marie manages to get lost amid the perpetual twilight of endless, whispering conifers before finally stumbling upon a..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Celts

The Irish, Scottish, and Welsh stick it to Union Jack

"...Abilene, Texas, punky-folkster Micah P. Hinson, Glasgow quartet the Twilight Sad support Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters. Quick-beated and..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by David Lynch

Getting Physical

Anna Deavere Smith returns to Austin to investigate the resilience of the human body

"...everyone's bodies. The creator of Fires in the Mirror; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; and House Arrest is hard at..."

May 12, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...the Cure: politically gothic punk rock. – Darcie Stevens TWILIGHT SINGERS11:30pm, Friends Former Afghan Whig raconteur Greg Dulli has..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

The Last Shall Be First

New Year's Eve becomes a cultural extravaganza with First Night Austin

"...with the Flaming Arrows. 8:30-9pm 8:45pm Twyla & the Twilight Star Ensemble, 301 Congress. Egyptian style bellydance set to..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hightower Report

'If an ordinary American did to a 7-Eleven what Halliburton routinely does to taxpayers, that poor soul would be doing 25-to-life in state prison'; Domestic oppression in the air?

"...neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Marshall Styler

Record review

"...The Twilight Concertos (ESM)..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

No Entry

An exotic dancer tests the strength of two couples in this entertaining Bollywood romantic comedy.

"...running time the plot becomes increasingly redolent of The Twilight Zone on nitrous oxide. There are tawdry, exciting, and..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nominations for the 2004-2005 B. Iden Payne Awards

A complete list of all Payne Award nominees.

"...Carla Nickerson Adams, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Arts Feature

Saraband

Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.

"...her notion of visiting Johan, who now resides in twilight in a ramshackle but finely appointed house in the..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Touching All Those Hands

Remembering Boyd Vance, his life and legacy

"...When we did Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, we would go to the Heritage..."

April 29, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kung Fu Hustle

Stephen Chow's chop-socky offering is a manic, hyperentertaining blend of classic kung-fu tropes, special effects, and outrageous comedy.

"...fu masters who’ve made this seedy little hamlet their twilight home. When Sing is tapped by Axe leader Brother..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of the Mask

Sequel has absolutely none of its predecessor’s manic charm.

"...in his "It’s a Good Life" segment in 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie, itself uneven but vastly more entertaining..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Assault on Precinct 13

This new version of John Carpenter's classic is superfluous in the extreme, and while it’s not technically a bad movie, per se, viewers unfamiliar with the film’s lineage will likely write it off as yet another midwinter also-ran, the sort of action film that never quite takes off and instead focuses on random gun battles and cheesy dialogue.

"...new script (from James DeMonaco), utterly abandons the eerie Twilight Zone-esque quality of its forerunner. Hawke plays Sgt. Jake..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deveare Smith Visits – and Inhabits – Austin

The Zachary Scott Theatre Center is hosting a special performance by Anna Deveare Smith in which she'll present theatrical portraits of select Austinites

"...the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities and Twilight: Los Angeles, these Violet Crown portraits will feature Deveare..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Flight of the Phoenix

Sticking closely to the tone of its predecessor, this remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film lacks the tang of the original, and trades the late-vintage Jimmy Stewart for the shirtless Dennis Quaid.

"...what it seems, a literalist adventure with a socko Twilight Zone twist that’s finally too little, too late...."

Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Open Water

Is it wrong to root for the sharks?

"...first joking, then bickering, and finally entering into a twilight zone of mounting, unsupportable dread as they slowly come..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thunderbirds

A TV show from the Sixties that starred marionettes gets the live-action treatment … or does it?

"...he appears to have stepped out of that old Twilight Zone episode with the mannequins. As Jeff Tracy, Paxton..."

July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Return

A long-absent father returns to his family in this prize-winning Russian drama, and for his two young sons the unexplained reason for his return is as mysterious as his absence.

"...pristinely chilling depiction of familial meltdown in a post-Stalinist, Twilight Zone anti-place, the dark heart of heartlessness and mysterious..."

June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love Object

A shy office drone orders a life-sized plastic doll off the Internet, to predictably disastrous results.

"...and various and sundry episodes of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents in its story of..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Never the Same Again'

Jesse Sublett's 'Rock 'n' Roll Gothic': an excerpt

"...reveries. Just me and my thoughts, and the gray twilight world caught in the low glare of my headlights...."

May 7, 2004 Books Feature

Letters at 3AM

Attorney General John Ashcroft is stuffing our Bill of Rights into the shredder

"...neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Riotous comedy mixes live-action and animation for a great result.

"...on this front are superb: His segment of 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie updated the old "It’s a Good..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Rundown

The man-mountain known as the Rock is diminished by all the action clichés in his new picture.

"...weirder and weirder as the actor moves into the twilight of his career, almost as if the screenwriters were..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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