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

Virus

"...in the first five minutes) and stand down their wild-eyed Captain. You know the rest. Sutherland, to his credit,..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II is the most splendidly imaginative and creatively uncorked piece of fantastic cinema since his Pan's Labyrinth netted an Oscar trifecta in 2007.

"...the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Co-scripted with wild abandon and plenty of heart by del Toro and..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Fish

Tim Burton is all grown up and getting serious.

"...is all grown up and getting serious with this wildly scattershot tale of a dying old man and serial..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A New Cuppa Tea in Tripoli

Actress Bernadette Nason takes tales of a year in Libya and brews a potent memoir

"...scary run-ins with Moammar Gadhafi's morality police, and the tales proved so popular that her theatre pals began to..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Satanic Hispanics

Latino horror anthology hangs wild and loose in its pan-American chills

"...of the Traveler, a mysterious figure (Ramirez) recounting bizarre tales of the supernatural to two disbelieving cops, Detectives Arden..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Moby Dick McConaughey

People have been spinning tall tales about celebrities in Austin for years

"...People have been spinning tall tales about celebrities in Austin for years, but after a..."

May 17, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc

Beware: Bigfoot Ahead

The homegrown horror of The Wild Man of Navidad

"...Austin's Duane Graves and Justin Meeks to make The Wild Man of the Navidad, a Texas bigfoot tale that..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Dust to Glory

The Baja 1000, the longest off-road race in the world, is captured on film by Step Into Liquid's Dana Brown.

"...annual returnees to the event, some of whom recount wild tales from the race’s early years in the Sixties..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Night Visions

Director Alison Maclean and author Denis Johnson on Jesus' Son, a soulful, darkly comic take on life and death as a junkie

"...Indian chief, like a little boy who wakes up bewildered in the middle of the night and has to..."

July 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Book Reviews

Winter's Tales

"...an appearance in Great Plains. Le's big personality and wild stories are fun. He tells tall tales that could..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Books Feature by Lissa Richardson

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Blues on the Green, Texas punk tales, and more recommended local shows

"...Blues on the Green w/ Devon Gilfillian, Wild ChildZilker Park, Tuesday 18 – Wednesday 19..."

July 14, 2023 Music Column by Doug Freeman

Boyhood Nominated for Six Oscars

Academy singles out Linklater, Adair, Arquette, Hawke

"...Moore, Still Alice Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl Reese Witherspoon, Wild Actor in a Supporting Role..."

Jan. 15, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

"If These Walls Could Talk" at Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery

The artists in this Cloud Tree Studios & Gallery exhibition get the walls not only to talk but to spin some fantastic tales

"...venue are quite vocal, and they spin some remarkable tales...."

Aug. 20, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

AFF Knows We Like to Watch

Local film Harmony and Me tops sneak peek at festival lineup

"...comedy (Robert Townsend's Why We Laugh), screenwriting (Peter Hanson's Tales From the Script), and the 2008 national party conventions..."

Aug. 26, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Dr. Dolittle 2

"...and all that fictional dander and spoor rendered the tales of the amazing physician who could "talk to the..."

June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Myth, Blood, and Ink

What people have invested in the debate over the de la Peña diary : which suggests that famed Alamo legend Davy Crockett was executed by Santa Anna and not in the heat of battle : is not some mere fandom or kitsch, but a genuine passion for how the story of Texas is written and how it affects real life. It may no longer matter how Crockett was killed, but it does matter how we now allow him to live.

"...he could merely be retelling false or distorted secondhand tales. Still, there was a curious mood in the LBJ..."

May 5, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Marie Windsor

Tales of Noir and B Movies

"...Simon and Simon, Murder She Wrote, Fantasy Island, and Tales From the Darkside, she's a very gracious and pleasant..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down

Music and madness fill festival lineup

"...unleashed, and not only is it packed with incredible tales of fantasy, action, and horror, but prepare to have..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jason Phelps & Co.'s Landfallen – the lost and found

This new work of dance-theatre takes us on journeys through wild wastes and personal histories, but leaves us in a place of hope

"...conscious of journeys – hard journeys being made through wild wastes and through personal histories. Of course, this being..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Top 10 Video Games

Whether you wanted intimate tales or cars being blown back from explosions, 2015 had you covered

"...V: The Phantom Pain (Kojima Productions); The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED); Bloodborne (FromSoftware) Yes, I'm cheating..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Book Review: 'The Last Kind Words Saloon'

Jes' Wyatt and Doc and the setting sun in McMurtry's latest

"...50 books, has a reputation as tall as the Wild West’s tales. His latest, The Last Kind Words Saloon,..."

May 22, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Top Fiction of 2020 for the Angry Girls

Rosalind Faires chooses several tales of righteous indignation

"...6) EMPIRE OF WILD (William Morrow) Cherie Dimaline intertwines the story of the..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Immigrants

Turkey tales in translation

"...Despite her hesitancy to introduce Americans to anything too wild, Cayrel shares that part of the fun of integrating..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Devenyns

Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few

by Diana Finlay Hendricks

"...Beatles, early-Seventies L.A., Austin's progressive country, and outlaw-upturned Nashville. Wild tales prop up the background, but the focus remains..."

Dec. 15, 2017 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Top Books to Inspire Hope Amidst Change

Jessi Cape's top reads of 2016 helped ground her during a roller-coaster year

"...a bonus chapter, "Secrets." Gleaning protesting pro-tips from her wild and poignant recollections is a feisty morale boost. Local..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

10 Minutes with Graham Nash

Yesterday’s hot-button issues remain ‘blazingly’ relevant today

"...BookPeople – signing copies of last year’s terrific autobiography Wild Tales (12:30pm) – then in concert with David Crosby..."

Aug. 27, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Gay Place

Halloqueers and Dia de las Lezbos, just another wild weekend in the gAyTX

"...hear tell these folks will tell their most embarrassing tales from the humiliation-laden coffers of youth. Fri.-Sat., Nov. 1-2,..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

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