Fantastic Fest Unleashes Wave Two

Alumni Adam Wingard, Nacho Vigalondo, Ti West return, and more

"...him smack in the middle of a bizarre criminal underworld replete with mixed martial arts, intrigue, murder and pillow..."

Aug. 18, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Reefer Roundup: 6/17/11

Your drug war news, all in one place

"...law. It funded, armed and politically empowered a brutal underworld. It deprived hard-pressed taxpayers of fiscal relief. It did..."

June 17, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Pale Flower

A dark and dreamy Nippon noir from 1964

"...within or without, Muraki immediately descends into the Tokyo underworld, a fish-belly black-and-white world of simple, if illicit, desires:..."

June 17, 2011 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

What's in Steve Niles' Head?

World Horror Con star signing at Austin Books today

"...is the down-and-dirty adventures of pill-popping detective to the underworld Cal McDonald that are dearest to his black heart...."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...at the normalcy and familial bond engendered in this underworld. But who thought this stuff could be boring?..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

First Steps

New program highlights Texas filmmakers 'before they were legends'

"...family; Jan Krawitz's 1976 short doc "Styx," about the underworld of Philly's subway system; Tobe Hooper's "The Heisters," shot..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...fast-living hustler Riva. While being pursued by Kinshasa’s dangerous underworld, Riva finds himself inextricably drawn to a gangster’s seductive,..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: A Sweetness of Brick

Old New York is gone; only the replicas remain

"...surrounded by the goddesses and gods of Egypt's lively underworld...."

Jan. 28, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Bedside Manner: I Am Not a Scientologist!

Some light and dark reading from the City Hall Hustler

"...communications. The rest, quickly: Fodor's Spain 2009: Honeymoon time! Underworld: Breezed through White Noise and Libra last year, this..."

Jan. 17, 2011 Books Post by Wells Dunbar

Press Forward

Two exhibitions capture printmaking's experimental drive

"...starkly graphic, the picture is something of a Boschlike underworld contained within a human outline, propelling woman beyond the..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 'It's Alive!' Moments in Dance, of Those Events I Happened To See in 2010

Recalling the times in 2010 when contemporary dance and ballet showed a pulse

"...emerald shards, with piped-in Bach and Philip Glass and underworld dancers in angular, asymmetrical movement...."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Patron saints of drug dealers; oatmeal for horses; Toad Suck, Ark.; and more

"...based on its patron saints of the Mexican drug underworld. The main saints are Jesús Malverde, the patron saint..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Letters at 3AM: Who's That Girl?

Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom is an inimitable genius

"...Franz's folktale analyses, James Hillman's The Dream and the Underworld, and R.D. Laing's The Politics of Experience, which ends..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Fantastic Fest: 'Fire of Conscience'

Dante Lam's good cops versus bad cops thriller is sensational.

"...be disappointed with this ratatat descent into the grimy-slick underworld of Hong Kong lawbreakers and the damaged cops who..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Carnage, Wrath, and Righteous Waves

What's the story with Doug Dorst's The Surf Guru?

"...The Surf Guru, Dorst's follow-up to his acclaimed 2008 underworld-noir novel, Alive in Necropolis. The fineness of the language,..."

July 16, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Things We Do for Love

One theatre ensemble just can't quit that miss of myth, Psyche

"....45 automatic that fires bullets of love and the Underworld becoming a shopping mall. Characters were cast across gender,..."

June 25, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Skyforger

"...Devil Slayer"), and Finntroll-like sea shanty intros ("In the Underworld"): Baltic republicans endure...."

June 18, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...simple: forming a rock band. Together they search the underworld of contemporary Tehran for other players, forbidden by the..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

In Play

Beauty and the beasts: why Bayonetta wins and Army of Two's blood-soaked bromance is passé

"...you're skilled enough to easily summon creatures from the underworld, the creative kill sequences for some of the larger..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Manufacturing Fizz

What makes L'Étoile a light, bubbly Champagne of operas

"...Die Fledermaus, The Barber of Seville, Orpheus in the Underworld, and L'Étoile...."

Jan. 29, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lyle Lovett

"...Bell's "Sun and Moon and Stars" and the jazz/blues underworld crafted on Tommy Elskes' "Bohemia" both dramatic and distinctive...."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Hell: A Novel

In this comic novel set in the underworld, Butler swings for the fences but creates little more than a breeze

"...and never adds another layer to the otherwise palpable underworld of claustrophobia, paranoia, and pain Butler creates. There are..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Books Review by James Renovitch

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...microbudgeted debut feature Sweet Karma enters into the real underworld of human sex-trafficking and comes out rivaling Abel Ferrara's..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

This Week's Waste of Time

A free game with romance and action without all the pesky facial features

"...and features a battle against the minions of the underworld to save the spirit of your wife or perhaps..."

Sept. 10, 2009 Screens Post by James Renovitch

TV Eye

BBC America celebrates its HD premiere with a week of sci-fi programming

"...blood and trying to avoid involvement in the vampire underworld. (The local constable, and evil vampire, is planning a..."

July 17, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Oceana

The Vortex's latest theatrical immersion in myth sinks you down 20,000 leagues

"...from the even, sustained harmonies suggesting the serene Arctic underworld ruled by the Inuit goddess Sedna (a wounded and..."

May 22, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Temple Stone

Japanese psych warlords Ghost won't be as illusive as their name suggests after Saturday's show at Mohawk

"...Free Tibet to the progressive tension rippling through Hypnotic Underworld. After both an American and Japanese tour together, Krukowski..."

May 15, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Webb Wilder lumbers through a shadowy southern gothic underworld flush with casino cash, trailer trash and alien invaders..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Hierarchy of Hell

"...from high atop Mt. Olympus, while gods of the underworld Iommi and Butler peal the skin off molten doom..."

Aug. 27, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

The water in Oregon's Crater Lake is the most beautiful shade of blue

"...happened thousands of years ago. Llao, king of the underworld, lived on Mount Mazama, and the chief of the..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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