Opinion: Capitalism Has Failed Americans in This Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed longstanding structural problems. This is an opportunity to rethink our systems before they collapse.

"...older woman, and doing her job means traveling and working in close proximity to patients with COVID-19. She lives..."

April 10, 2020 Column by Marina Roberts

Hustling Uncut Gems With the Safdie Brothers

How their family history glistens in their New York story

"...story not just about gambling addiction, but the very American mindset about not just winning but winning big. He..."

Dec. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Irishman

Scorsese's filmmaking excellence can't mask a flawed retreading of mob history

"...still honorable. Protection rackets work. Sheeran is just a working stiff whose job happens to be murdering people. It..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

AFS Announces 2019 Feature Grant Recipients

Over $100,000 in cash and aid for next generation of filmmakers

"...half of the grant process, covering features. If you're working on a short film, running 40 minutes or less,..."

Sept. 4, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Alvin Schwartz's beloved nightmares come to the screen

"...lit and shot (by cinematographer Roman Osin, fresh from working with Trollhunter director Øvredal on Fantastic Fest favorite The..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Local Band Montopolis Scores a Multimedia Ode to the Texas Coast

Galveston (and you) will be blown away by this production

"...The Great Galveston Hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in American history, happened way back in 1900, and neither the..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Amid New Immigration Policies, Local Attorneys and Immigrants Navigate a Broken System

Lawyers say the system has been thrown into "chaos"

"...a day, usually from clients who trekked from Central America and are seeking protection. Southwest border apprehensions hit a..."

July 26, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

American Woman

Sienna Miller pulls pages from a journal of loss in small town

"..."missing, presumed dead" trope has been a fixture of American crime drama: But American Woman is less a whodunit..."

June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019

"...President of Acquisitions, said, “We’re thrilled to be back working with Black Fawn on what we consider to be..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bisbee ’17

A dark piece of American history exposed through theatre

"...this documentary about one of the worst crimes against America's workers, and a hideous piece of buried history. On..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Red Sparrow

Erotic spy thriller is Fifty Shades of Gorky Park.

"...– is as real as bugging and assassination. In America, it's called honeypotting. The Russians called men sent to..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panels: Food and Technology

More highlights from the 2017 food track

"...became interested in microbes when he met a doctor working in Ethiopia who struggled with the problem of supplying..."

March 13, 2017 Food Post by Emily Beyda

Page Two: Where Do We Go From Here?

"...resilient as to survive changing administrations. Core to it working is the idea that even with radically different political..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Denial

Holocaust courtroom drama parallels contemporary issues

"...chaos is afoot. When Elon Musk and Bank of America postulate (as they did last week, no joke) that..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Otto Binder Had a Vision

The great science-fiction and comic book writer already had a name for Trump back in the 1950s – Bizarro

"...characters: During the Golden Age he wrote for Captain America, The Human Torch, Shield, and Dollman and co-invented Kid..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Zero Days

Chilling cyber warfare doc explores the Stuxnet virus

"...film repeatedly notes. Stuxnet remains so classified here in America that the many government officials interviewed can’t even mention..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What to Make of It

Local activists seek justice for black lives

"...and Black Lives Matter organizer Margaret Haule have been working toward solutions, some already in place following the death..."

July 15, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Women and Children First

Immigration raids targeting families strike fear in Austin's Latino community

"...taking them away." Casar said that his office is working on gathering information about the raids, including whether ICE..."

Jan. 15, 2016 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Concussion

Will Smith is the doctor who pioneered research into NFL head injuries

"...a quack, lest his findings diminish the nobility of America’s most popular sport...."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Wild

Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed in this autobiographical trek of expiation.

"...dazzling enough to earn her the silly sobriquet of “America’s Sweetheart” more than once in a 25-year-long career. Whether..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Snowpiercer

This English-language debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is a riveting sci-fi action film entirely set on a speeding train.

"...Working from the French source comic book Le Transperceneige, Bong..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

HOG Wild

How a concrete wasteland has become a street-art wonderland called the HOPE Outdoor Gallery

"...mindful street art and mindless graffiti; in the excited all-American boy from Round Rock, enthralled with the maze of..."

June 20, 2014 Arts Feature by Bob Makela

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...Peace Prize lifetime achievement award, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and two National Endowment..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

Texas Book Festival 2013

Oct. 28, 2013. 36 photos.

"...Speaking about This Town, his D.C. tell-all (working title: Suck Up City), Mark Leibovich said, “You have..."

Oct. 29, 2013 Photo Gallery

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...through TV screens via MTV and vintage programs like American Bandstand and Tomorrow. There remains an uncanny pop intelligence..."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

News Ticker: July 24

All the news that's fit to blog

"...According to website Movato, Austin is the fourth most hard-working city in America. Most of that work seems to..."

July 24, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

American Mary

The plastic surgery performed in this horror film gives real meaning to going under the knife.

"...to expect: blood, guts, and more blood and guts. American Mary, however, communicates nothing along those lines. In fact,..."

May 31, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Angels' Share

Scottish social-realist director Ken Loach is back with a new movie about young delinquents and a whisky-distillery heist.

"...“coont” in brogue, the term is less taboo in working-class Scotland than it is in middle-class England, and still..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Trento

In West Lake Hills, Italian fare that'll have you licking your plate

"...and was determined to attend the Culinary Institute of America, hone his skills working for some nationally-known chefs in..."

July 6, 2012 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Men in Black 3

Josh Brolin's spooky good impersonation of the younger Tommy Lee Jones is the only fresh thing happening in this sequel.

"...of actual belly laughs. Permanent franchise helmer Barry Sonnenfeld, working from a punitively obvious story co-scripted by David Koepp,..."

May 25, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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