Fantastic Fest Review: The Other Lamb

Cult drama's inevitable twists may not convert you

"...starts to unravel the more she converses with the cast away broken wife (Denise Gough). Big eyed and innocent,..."

Sept. 23, 2019 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Theatrical Provocateurs Rubber Repertory Return to Austin

Two of the best and oddest come back for their own good and ours

"...in L.A. and Matt jetting overseas to be a cast member at Disneyland China … and then the both..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fantastic Fest Interview: Richard Stanley Sees the Color Out of Space

How his mother's love and death shaped his Lovecraft adaptation

"...And generally, when you're trying to cast a movie, you need a star to put a..."

Sept. 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Paper Chairs Makes Theatre With a Little Lone Star Surregionalism

The Texas premiere of Will Arbery’s Plano play knows place like home

"...Heather Hanna, Hannah Kenah, and the rest of the cast haven't rehearsed endlessly in order to make themselves look..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Fantastic Fest Is Shaping the Genre Film Scene

Fifteen years in and still fantastic

"...who made the leap from indie premiere to A-list casts, like Nacho Vigalondo (whose Timecrimes led to working with..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: 2020 Hopefuls Tackle Queer Rights Convo

Gender Unbound, AIDS Walk with Big Freedia, Butch Queen, and more

"...for the party's nomination – will be held far away from Austin (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), expect it to be..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Rob Zombie Resurrects the Firefly Family for 3 From Hell

Here to do the devil's work: Director talks how being cool is no excuse

"...It's two weeks, the set were built, everybody was cast, it was go time. So I quickly rewrote the..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

After the Wedding

American remake of Danish Oscar contender flails into melodrama

"...absurd that its hard not to laugh – A-list cast or no. The enigma becomes a ludicrous plot twist,..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Beto-Castro-Meter: A Tier of Their Own

Iowa is 23 weeks away, how are our 2020 presidential Texans doing?

"...traveled different paths since we last fired up the Beto-Castro-Meter, both former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of El Paso..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

How Much Reform Is Enough in the Travis County District Attorney Race?

Incumbent D.A. Margaret Moore faces challengers from the left

"...off an upset – or together pull enough votes away to force Moore into an unpredictable run-off – it..."

Aug. 23, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Blinded by the Light

Semi-true story of how the Boss shook the world of a boy from Luton

"...racial violence against immigrants of color. If the shadow cast by this political climate wasn’t enough, Javed’s authoritarian father..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...masterpiece, Doug Sahm & Band, the San Antonio hepcat cast his gaze from the stage and spied the New..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

A War on Passivity: Rick Alverson and Tye Sheridan Climb The Mountain

The confrontational director challenges audiences to work once again

"...The biggest challenge was arguably in his fellow cast members. Goldblum, Kier, and Denis Lavant, all performers who..."

Aug. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Rose: Trouble in Paradise at ColdTowne Theatre

ColdTowne's improvised riff on The Bachelor captures the raw, trainwreck appeal of reality TV dating shows

"...and of itself, this current iteration captures the raw, can't-look-away-from-a-trainwreck appeal that defines the TV dating genre, even when..."

July 26, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Linklater's Latest, Reality TV Taps Locals, and More Austin Film News

"...now arrives in the warm-up for awards season. The cast may be filled with A-listers (Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne,..."

July 26, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

16 of Austin's Best Downtown Restaurants

Excellent eateries to explore on foot

"...conversation over escargots de Bourgogne and bubbles while hidden away from the Downtown melee. CHINESE Wu Chow..."

July 22, 2019 Food Post

Lulu Wang Introduces Us to The Farewell

Director talks identity, family, and Awkwafina's superpower

"...shot in China, with a Chinese and Chinese American cast, and much of the script is in Mandarin, writer/director..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

aGLIFF 2019 Announces Full Lineup, Including Trixie Mattel Documentary

Gay Chorus Deep South to open jampacked fest schedule

"...character becomes more difficult to understand as new information recasts events in both the past and present in different..."

July 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Soul Stunner Miss Lavelle White Turns 39 (or So)

“I had a hard life, but it channeled into the music”

"...and I don't mess with married men. I stay away from that...."

July 5, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Austin-Travis County EMS Saves Real Lives on First Responders Live

Why are local emer­gency medical services on Fox's popular TV show?

"...– but was convinced to try out and was cast again. “Something about me must be compelling to somebody,..."

June 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Los Coast Doubles Down on Its Psych-Soul for Label Debut

Local fivepiece embraces the spirit of wandering

"...to prevent retribution for his cardinal sin. Cain then cast himself "away from the presence of the Lord and..."

June 14, 2019 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

ATX TV Fest Recap: Taking the Future One Day at a Time

Series creator says "there’s hope" show will be saved

"...Gloria Calderon Kellett, series co-creator), EP Brent Miller and cast members Justina Machado (Penelope), Stephen Tobolowsky (Dr. Leslie Berkowitz),..."

June 11, 2019 Screens Post by Beth Sullivan

Veronica Mars, All Grown Up at the ATX Television Fest

Series creator Rob Thomas explains why the cult show has to change

"...Veronica Mars has never shied away from life's gritty realities. Unlike many millennial teen melodramas..."

June 7, 2019 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

Reliving Roky Erickson: July 15, 1947-May 31, 2019

Creature with the Atom Brain

"...eventually granted to younger brother and tubaist Sumner Erickson, away from his mother, Evelyn Erickson...."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Terrence McNally Knows About Lasting Impact

About to open a new play at Zach Theatre, the Tony Award-winning playwright talks about what endures

"...original Broadway runs, singing along with his parents' original cast recordings when they lived in Corpus Christi; and as..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Souvenir

Joanna Hogg's dreamlike memoir of love and loss in 1980s London

"...socially important, even as her lecturers politely warn her away from drowning in a topic about which she knows..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Broadway in Austin's Hamilton

This national touring production doesn't throw away its shot

"...Hamilton bears the burden of comparison with the original cast recording. Fortunately, the national touring production that’s now playing..."

May 30, 2019 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

Voter Purge Leader David Whitley Resigns

Embattled SoS calls it quits after discriminatory voter purge

"...citizenship was possibly in doubt (of whom 58,000 had cast a ballot in the past), it ignited a voter-fraud..."

May 27, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Booksmart

The kids are better than alright in Olivia Wilde's raucous, resonant comedy

"...Booksmart is so finely textured: in set design (a throwaway Virginia Woolf prop made me giggle) and blocking (campus..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hot Luck Music Headliners Dig Into the Festival Menu

Talking turkey with Archers of Loaf, Erika Wennerstrom, Robert Ellis, Sunflower Bean, the Suffers, and PJ Morton

"...the release of fifth LP Texas Piano Man, which re-casts his notoriously eccentric musical flair as a grand-piano-toting, white-tuxedoed,..."

May 24, 2019 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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