They're Here! Fantastic Fest Wave One Arrives

Overlord, Apostle headline fest opening salvo

"...Me, Monster lures you into the fascinating and opaque underworld of serial murder, supernatural obsession, metaphysical hallucinations, forbidden love..."

July 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Alita: Battle Angel Trailer Arrives

Robert Rodriguez's new Austin-shot science-fiction epic

"...it – “worlds above worlds above worlds.” There’s an underworld, the Iron City, and the sky city of Zalem,..."

July 23, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wizard World Austin 2017

The traveling comic con materializes here again Nov. 17-19

"...• an onstage interview with Underworld's Kate Beckinsale;..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What’cha Watchin’?

Laughter is a restorative: Graphic Designer Zeke Barbaro on his favorite stupid shit to watch

"...to Hell (Hulu) It's a workplace comedy about the underworld. Airing on Adult Swim – and featuring plenty of..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Screens Column

Fantastic Fest Review: Junk Head

Visionary stop motion joy from Japan

"...cyborg researcher volunteers for a mission to the complex underworld beneath the shiny but hollow surface, to find one..."

Sept. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Morbid Curiosity: A Card Game About Death

Shedding the stigma of the inevitable

"...deep as the River Styx, from names of ancient underworld deities, to death industry licensing practices, to how the..."

May 12, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Julia Lucille

"...deals with sacrifices made to deities in the looming underworld. A fitting title for Julia Lucille's dark, otherworldly third..."

April 14, 2017 Music Review by Libby Webster

So What Is Trainspotting Anyway?

Choose life. Choose a sequel. Choose director Danny Boyle.

"...through line of club classics from Iggy Pop to Underworld...."

March 24, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Dog Eat Dog

Paul Schrader is the old dog learning new tricks

"...his newest film. It's a journey to the criminal underworld with Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, and Christopher Matthew Cook..."

Nov. 13, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Says OMG!

Fest adds Israeli sci-fi comedy OMG, I'm a Robot?! and Dark Star

"...Martinican animation Battledream Chronicle, post-apocalyptic drama The Tribe, first Underworld Austin horror title Bed of the Dead, and a..."

Nov. 1, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Meathead

Vegetarians are a little farty and occasionally sanctimonious

"...I am starting to drift here so I will..."

May 20, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Wars of Heaven: Smackdown!

This Trouble Puppet Theater production takes the philosophic battle between good and evil into the pro-wrestling ring

"...sharp Michelle Dahlenburg voicing Behemoth, the rep for the underworld. The combatants are animals upon beastly mounts embodied by..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Scam Your Way to the Top

Land that angel investment using the art of the con

"...tricks follow a common narrative. In 1940, David Maurer's underworld case study The Big Con coined hard-boiled terms like..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

"Beyond Macondo"

AFS series spotlights contemporary Colombian cinema

"...enables a glimpse at liberatory exit from the criminal underworld incrementally entangling him. Winner of both the Jury and..."

Oct. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Jordan Buckley

Fantastic Fest 2015: Ruined Heart

Another love story between Christopher Doyle and his camera

"...at the time – to mutate the already chaotic underworld of Manilla into a crazily askew bad dream of..."

Sept. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More

New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest

"...off on a non-stop rollercoaster ride through the local underworld. High-Rise D: Ben Wheatley United Kingdom, 2016, 118 min..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Creature Circus at Salvage Vanguard

"...Farewell from the underworld! Catch you later topside, humans...."

June 29, 2015 Photo Gallery

Behemoth: Devil's Conquistadors and Confessions of a Heretic: The Sacred and the Profane – Behemoth and Beyond

A lavish diary of Poland's black metal breakout Behemoth, and a book-length Q&A defense of frontman Adam Darski

"...ancient hieroglyphs. Mesopotamian deity of war, pestilence, and the underworld, Nergal the First now cedes his throne to a..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Gems for the Taking

The Austin Film Society programs French films noirs

March 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Past Passion

Austin Shakespeare revisits Tom Stoppard in Hades for The Invention of Love

"...preparing to be ferried to the afterlife by the underworld's favorite boatman, Charon, through his time at university, with..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Unseen Hendrix"

Robert Hewgley's dramatic images of Jimi Hendrix at a 1969 concert capture a musician in the throes of creation

"...darkness – which makes this Hendrix Orpheus in the underworld, playing for all he's worth to bring his foxy..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Living and Dying on Asian Screens

Austin Asian American Film Festival is back

"...brothers climbing the blood-slicked social ladder of the Chinese underworld of Eighties-era New York should be a blast in..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

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

"...butchered plot about Baphomet, the damaged deity of the underworld. Funnier, darker, and more moving than what Fox released,..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Perfidia

The first book in this new L.A. Quartet shows new depth, scope, and craftsmanship in James Ellroy's canon

"...novelist, a terse, staccato, Bukowskian demimonde poet. The following Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy – American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand,..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

Fantastic Fest 2014: Norway

A disco vampire descends on the Mediterranean

"...joins Alice and the Norwegian on a series of underworld errands. She makes a bizarre pit-stop to turn a..."

Sept. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

Xicano Dreams: Earth, Life, and Labors of Love

This melding of sci-fi and ancient myth found a powerful beat that made it hard not to move

"...people before he is overturned by Mictlan (representing the underworld) and the Shaman. A quick-changing ensemble of eight danced..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Brian Eno & Karl Hyde

"...release in four months, studio sage Brian Eno and Underworld's Karl Hyde produce something otherworldly. Though the onetime Roxy..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Music Review by Neph Basedow

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

Documentary about a film that never was heads this week's releases

"...beyond one tower block and out into the Indonesian underworld (read our original review here.)..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lit-urday: Quantum Ops and Sentient Ink

Meanwhile, deep in the vat-grown heart of a dystopian NYC

"...whom and in what sort of radically reupholstered criminal underworld of the future...."

June 28, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dark Times in Austin With Noir City

The czar of noir Eddie Muller on Walter White and classic dread

"...man seeking revenge for being framed by the criminal underworld. 10pm The Breaking Point (1950) A sometime overshadowed version..."

Feb. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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