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DVDanger: Here Be Monsters
Back in the home-release stack after SXSW
"...comes to horror in Austin in March, all eyes are on the screens of SXSW. But the world rolls..."

April 4, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Exodus: Gods and Kings
Batten down the hatches! The plagues are here!
"...Ben Kingsley, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, María Valverde, Sigourney Weaver, Ewen Bremner and Tara Fitzgerald...."

Dec. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest 2014: Kung Fu Elliot
Outsider art gets ugly in this strange Canadian documentary
"...artist's life for Kung Fu Elliot, even the filmmakers are not sure...."

Sept. 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'
Time for a real vampire weekend
"...There are two kinds of vampire. Sexy and pained, or a..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback
Crooked Bangs sings en français, Western Medical pulls plug on the big machine, and UtopiaFest finds a soul-stirring hero ankle-deep in the mud.
"...Leda Ginestra stares at a record sleeve, reciting:..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Here Today ...
Choreographer Sharon Marroquín lets go through dance in order to live
"...afraid of dying," says dancer and choreographer Sharon Marroquín. "We like to think that things are fixed, that situations,..."

March 23, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Brooklyn's Finest
Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle star in this clichéd police drama that's capped by an outlandish third act.
"...Antoine Fuqua. Starring: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Will Patton, Ellen Barkin, Shannon Kane, Brian F...."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rambo
In his fourth cinematic outing, Rambo's tasked with saving Christian missionaries in Burma.
"...Botz, Tim Kang and Ken Howard. There will be blood in the ultraviolent Rambo, a movie that depicts both..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Page Two: Light and Darkness
Light and Darkness: In the bright cacophony of black and white, a confession of despair and an ode to uncertainty
"...– in the face of the current administration, its followers, and its apologists, any attempt at discourse is futile...."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The Filth and the Fury
"...persistent have been the efforts of band manager/Svengali Malcolm McLaren to claim all the credit. By McLaren's telling only,..."

May 5, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Comic Creator Spotlight on Zach Chapman: "When I Get That Art Back, It's Instant Gratification"
For Free Comic Book Day we chat with Austin's sequential standouts
"...Essential bibliography: House of Blood (self-published)..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: Attack of the Demons
Catch the Austin animated horror online this weekend
"...Welcome to Now Streaming in Austin, highlighting locally made titles..."

May 23, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story
New documentary reveals the man behind moviedom's monsters
"...a mask – they're completely right. But those monsters are little more than extras. To be a great monster..."

July 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

RTX Adds Meow Wolf, Overwatch, and More
Exclusive first look at gamer con's 2018 schedule, guests
"...Clear your calendars, gaming and anime fans. We've got the first look at the nighttime schedule for..."

June 25, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Untapped Austin Releases Full Beer List
Forget about 2016 with 334 brews
"...with the good hair,” 2016 has been a bitch. We all deserve a little day-drinking. Luckily, the Untapped Festival..."

April 28, 2016 Food Post by Brandon Watson

The Aftermath
Days later, the Red River rampage echoes through many lives
"...on patrol just after midnight on March 13, driving westbound on East 12th Street, when he spotted the gray..."

March 21, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The pirate genre will always be buoyed aloft on the swells of outrageous action, ridiculous couture, and the derringest of do – and this sequel is no different.
"...I'd been strapped into a Tilt-A-Whirl that was itself welded atop the pace car at the Indy 500, which,..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meet the New Neighbors
A fugitive sect of Mormon polygamists is building a home – and an end-time temple – in the West Texas town of Eldorado
"...and lizards. In all, it is a fairly typical West Texas town of about 2,000, mostly oil industry workers,..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

To Your Health
Forteo, the new medication for osteoporosis
"...Forteo, the new medication for osteoporosis, safe and effective? Are there nutritional corrections that produce the same effect as..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Mystic River
Clint Eastwood's newest is a dark, lachrymose tale of slowly snaking evil.
"...stuff, but beneath Eastwood’s sure directorial hand, it’s immensely powerful; there’s enough free-floating grief here to blot out the..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks Web Extra
Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks
"...home from school on the day of the attacks, scared, and asking if they must move again. This brought..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Dangerous Liaisons
A Gay Man's Search for Sex Ends in His Murder
"...duo -- Becker friendly and talkative, Greeley quiet and well-mannered -- were getting along nicely as they headed home...."

March 14, 1997 News Feature by Amy Smith

Standing Rock Pipeline Protests Bring New Life to Old Struggles
“It’s about all of us”
"...pepper-sprayed faces of indigenous land defenders in North Dakota are fresh on the minds of dozens of dancers gathered..."

Sept. 30, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

Black Sea
This undersea actioner stars Jude Law as a submarine captain leading a team of Brits and Russians in the recovery of a sunken fortune.
"...for death or glory. Unfortunately, you need more than sweat, brawn, and the incessant hurling of linguistically awesome Soviet-era..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Low Down
John Hawkes plays junkie jazz musician Joe Albany in this film based on his daughter's memoirs.
"...of jazz in the Forties, but by the time we meet him at the beginning of Low Down, it’s..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

20,000 Days on Earth
This documentary (for which Nick Cave receives a script credit), gets inside the artist's notoriously fussy creative process.
"...death, insane religion, and loves lost, smothered, or, occasionally, disemboweled. And you’d be right, but only to a certain..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where's Your Evidence?
Advances in forensic science have made physical evidence increasingly crucial in criminal justice – but the practice of preserving and maintaining that evidence is often underfunded, poorly managed, or just plain sloppy
"...and her two grown sons in the home they shared in the Panhandle town of Pampa. The crime scene..."

Feb. 15, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Who knew our beloved president also worked the graveyard shift? This capable rewrite of American history delivers its splatter with a straight face.
"...Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov. Starring: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Marton Csokas,..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Headhunters
This Norwegian crime thriller is anchored by a schemer who brings on his own ruin.
"...– that is, not until quite a lot of blood has been shed – is that he's the one..."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Conan the Barbarian
Robert E. Howard's iconic Conan the Barbarian has been resurrected for a new generation, but our hearts belong to Ahnold.
"...narrates the requisite (albeit totally unnecessary) opening exposition while we witness the feisty li'l barbarian brat (played as a..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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