Wild Tales

Anthology film from Argentina finds the dark humor in six revenge stories

"...the six segments in the perversely entertaining Argentine film Wild Tales, a more-than-deserving recent Oscar nominee for Best Foreign..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

DVDanger: Tales From the Hood

In the wake of Get Out, a classic anthology revisited

"...and a great linking mechanism, chaining the horror together. Tales From the Hood has both, plus one of the..."

April 25, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Out of Austin's primordial music past comes John Andrews with tales from the music hall of legends

"...musical strength and shenanigans is truly one of the wilder rides of those survivors. If his seem like tales..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Wild Thing, We Surely Loved You

RIP Maurice Sendak

"...of deeply loved children's books such as Where the Wild Things Are, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Outside Over There,..."

May 8, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

by Jane Alexander

"...book about, but it is her sincere dedication to wildlife conservation that propels the core of this lovely travelogue...."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Valoneecia Tolbert Geeks Out in Tales of a Blerd Ballerina

The actress looks back at what it was to be young, geeky, and Black

"...in the title of her new autobiographical solo show, Tales of a Blerd Ballerina, tells you where she's coming..."

April 9, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Inside the Seventies Weed Business in Wild Times in Old Austin

Dazed, confused, and profitable

"...cavalcade of era-appropriate escapades: an out-of-state acid-laced rock festival; wild drug-'n'-booze-fueled lake parties; encounters with the Mexican mafia and..."

June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Where the Wild Things Are

The 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival features more female athletes, more mindfulness, and more emotion

"...An identifiable wild streak runs through the films. "Desert Ice" features breathtaking..."

April 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

DVDanger: Wild Boys

The Boy and other examinations of the pre-teen male mind

"...No one does twisted fairytales quite like the Western Europeans, with the implication always..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Good Eye: Tales From the Quirky Box

More side-eye examination of "quirky" female film roles

"...Unlike the actors I interviewed for "Tales From the Beauty Box," Feb. 20, Beeler doesn't often..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Afield: A Chef's Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish

"...Afield: A Chef's Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fishby Jesse Griffiths; photos by Jody Horton,..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

The Wild, the Innocent, and the Five Armadillo Shows

"...poster artist Micael Priest snuck a copy of The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle onto Armadillo..."

April 3, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Less Wild Side to Argentina

AFS Essential Cinema: More Than Buenos Aires: Film Renaissance in Argentina

"...American cousins from Mexico and Brazil in favor of tales of domestic restraint and quiet personal redemption. Argentina may..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Tales Behind the Posters

"...Priest's posters are impressively memorable. The sly wit and wild style imbued within is instantly recognizable. Yet beyond the..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Fish Tales

Eaves Bros. Quality Seafood, At the Sign of the Neon Lobster

"...drum, tuna, catfish filets, ready-to-cook stuffed crab, turbot, and wild Atlantic salmon. The freezer case contained everything from alligator..."

March 22, 2002 Food Feature by MM Pack

Real Life Rat Tales

Carol Brorson consults the experts to get to the roof of Austin's rat problem.

"...are probably always going to be there from the wild," she said...."

Jan. 21, 2000 Features Feature by Carol Brorsen

Fantastic Fest Interview: Every Body Has a Story in The Mortuary Collection

Ryan Spindell brings period creep to the horror anthology

"...the yarn to spin about archiving and collating those tales...."

Sept. 21, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Once Upon a Time in Spain

Guillermo del Toro on fairy tales, facists, and everybody's new favorite movie

"...Fairy tales, real fairy tales, that is, speak to the darkest..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

There Is No Evil

Iranian anthology walks the line between life and death

"...1916 silent epic Intolerance, which boldly interwove four historical tales of religious and political oppression (one featuring no less..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Missing Link

More than just fuzzy fun in this latest stop-motion wonder

"...absent-minded, amiable best) is tired of being the only wild man of the woods. Not that he’s that wild:..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror Roundup

The best and the rest of the month's home releases

"...Speaking of morality tales, Spanish-Argentinian anthology Wild Tales bears a more than passing..."

July 3, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lady Vengeance

The South Korean master of revenge dramas, Park Chan-wook, offers another entertaining puzzle of emotional nuance, riotous color, and bloody hell.

"...thieves, cops, and killers and instead focus on the wild pas de deux of remorse (or lack thereof) and..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shrek

Animated comic gem.

"...on the whole nature of those classic Disney fairy tales. It's a smart film that kids will doubtless enjoy,..."

May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gladiator

These Coliseum slavery capers earned a Best Picture Oscar.

"...– but that story seems cribbed from previous, better tales. Much of what is good about Gladiator stems from..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Household Saints

"...their own luck and the older woman's old wives' tales and superstitions that become self-fulfilling prophecies, and the old..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Station

"...in a Forties romance, but Buy's lover is a wild card. Dangerous and brutal, every time the couple in..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Sister Aimee

A slightly true story of America's first megapastor on the run

"...Rumors ran wild at the time of Sister Aimee’s reported evaporation while..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Year in Movies, and in Moments

What didn’t make my Top 10

"...slant-eyebrowed confidante of two women unhappily pregnant in both Wild and Obvious Child, while a sublimely snarly Gyllenhaal crashed..."

Dec. 31, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...back yard and put her in it. She related tales of the Kellers torturing and killing animals and said..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Cabaret Balkan

"...series of interwoven vignettes. The episodes all have different tales with different characters, although several of the characters wander..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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