Waking Life

This animated journey through one character's dreams is a stirring, motivational, and metaphysical head trip.

"...by: Richard Linklater. Starring: Wiley Wiggins. Early on in Waking Life, a character announces -- maybe even warns --..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Waking Ned Devine

Despite its blarney, Waking Ned Devine has some wonderful turns, and is directed with a sure hand that makes the most of the Isle of Man's gorgeous geography.

"...The Full Monty. Like that wildly popular U.K. import, Waking Ned Devine has a terrific ensemble cast composed of..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waking Up in Reno

"...a year, Miramax has finally seen fit to release Waking Up in Reno ... although, given the zero publicity..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Waking the Dead

"...pretty much any character you'd care to name in Waking the Dead, a film that falls just short of..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Making Curiosity a Reality With 'Waking Mars'

Mars Mania helps a locally developed game

"...That game, released earlier this year, is appropriately titled Waking Mars and set in a decreasingly fantastical world where..."

Aug. 22, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Waking With Blood on His Hands

"...on my hands. Gun-control proponents like me are always waking up with blood on their hands – smeared there..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Postmarks

A Waking Dream

Film collective in*situ screens the animation of Harry Smith, avant-garde filmmaker.

"...Smith's art aims for the feel of a waking dream. His deep knowledge of mystic ritual and iconography..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

15 Breakfast Sandwiches in Austin Worth Waking Up For

Fuel your mornings without emptying your pockets

July 2, 2021 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

Austin Filmmakers’ Waking Nightmares

They're just making a movie. What could possibly go wrong?

Oct. 5, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Afternoon ACL Acts Worth Waking Up For

Get the most out of your pass with these nine artists

Sept. 28, 2016 Music Post by The Music Staff

Waking the Dead

Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Centro-matic's Will Johnson find common ground.

Sept. 12, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

La Raza: Waking the Sleeping Giant?

The National Council of La Raza looks to raise the U.S. Latino profile.

July 18, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

A Dream Collaboration: Richard Linklater and 30 animators team up to produce a startling, surreal new film.

"...of Austin's Paramount Theatre introducing his new animated movie Waking Life before the hometown audience. Linklater, now with eight..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sunday

"...Jared Harris and Joe Grifasi. Late morning hush. Sweet waking dreams. Traffic lights presiding silently over empty streets, and..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Happy Death Day 2U

Comedy-horror sequel is less Halloween, more Groundhog Day

"...Suicide is just fine; the horror lies in actually waking up to the same old reality...."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town

Mackenzie Davis is a great traveling companion for this dull roadtrip

"...is likely the worst day of her life: After waking up next to a stranger and piecing together the..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Happy Death Day

Living your death over and over again

"...Cool girl Tree Gelbman (Rothe, La La Land) keeps waking up on her birthday in the dorm room of..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Loving

A married couple's love changes the nation

"...Mildred Loving (Negga), an African-American woman, it was a waking nightmare that lasted nine years until the United States..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tower

Austin-made doc re-creates the UT Tower massacre with stunningly powerful immediacy

"...Mountain team, rotoscoped the footage à la Richard Linklater’s Waking Life. Then he combined the animation with archival live..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Girl

Sex, drugs, and privilege

"...kinetic style that suits the drug-fueled mayhem, but like waking up after partying all night, in the cold light..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Richard Linklater: dream is destiny

Doc on local filmmaker is a thoughtful portrait

"...in his equally groundbreaking and hypnagogic animated art film Waking Life, and it serves as a mission statement of..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hardcore Henry

Inventive spectacle and pop-culture tease finally arrives onscreen

"...hardcore about Henry? The film opens with Henry (you) waking up after being resurrected as a cyborg (with amnesia,..."

April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Before I Go to Sleep

Nicole Kidman stars as a woman who has amnesia and fights to uncover a big mystery from her past.

"...It begins with Christine (Kidman) waking up, seeming startled and a little disoriented by the..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

All Is Lost

In this near-wordless film, Robert Redford is compulsively watchable as a man trying to save himself from his sinking ship.

"...“Our Man,” as he’s billed in the credits – waking to discover that a mislaid cargo container in the..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Vow

A woman awakes from a coma with severe memory loss, forcing her husband to win her love all over again. Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum star.

"...the film, a car crash renders Paige comatose. Upon waking, she doesn't remember the last five years of her..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Winnie the Pooh

Disney returns to Hundred Acre Wood with this animated effort.

"...The slim but narratively fecund plot begins with Pooh waking with the knowledge that he has a Very Important..."

July 22, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger is back to disturb everyone's sleep.

"...warning, from the banality of the stock teen characters’ waking lives to the pointedly horrific unworld of their dreams...."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boot Camp Challenge: Week One

If Barack Obama can become president, I can certainly lose 16 pounds in six weeks

"...Day 1 Measurements and a Mile My plan for waking up in time to be at my first Boot..."

Jan. 24, 2009 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Year of the Fish

Year of the Fish is an animated fairy tale for adults that transposes the story of Cinderella to a Chinatown massage parlor.

"...In much the same fashion as Richard Linklater's films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, which made use of..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Return

Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a woman who keeps seeing a dead murder victim in her dreams, so of course she must get to the bottom of this mystery.

"...which she plays a young woman living in a waking dream that is somehow connected to an unsolved murder..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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