Showing Up

Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams reunite for this tale of middling artists

"...artist Jo (Chau), who uses her own slightly more successful career as a good excuse to be a slumlord...."

April 14, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...at the push to let AI take over the creative industries, expect a boisterous discussion from all side of..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Lazaro and The Shark: Cuba Under the Surface

Protest, poverty, and art intersect in Cuba's conga culture

"...establishment-favored. Materials are scarce and all competitors scrounge for creative resources, but in the margins of the upcoming conga..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Annie Flores

Jurassic World Dominion

Nothing new in the DNA of this dinosaur trilogy capper

"...World Dominion that is made evident by the recent success of Top Gun: Maverick, another legacy sequel that used..."

June 10, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Lux Æterna

A strange change of tone defines Gaspar Noé's half-a-film

"...that Gaspar Noé used in his still-controversial international breakout success Irréversible, but it's a trick that's been played on..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Days of Being Wild: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Reflects on Source Tags & Codes

Twenty years after its release, the band and producer look back ... while always looking forward

"...in 2000 – the year of his first great success. The band he'd founded six years earlier, ...And You..."

March 4, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

Back to the puzzles in this teen-friendly Saw-alike

"...lose the magic formula that made the original a success; play it too safe and you offer your audience..."

July 23, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Without Getting Killed or Caught

The troubled life and haunted love of Guy Clark, the Dean of Texas songwriters

"...its title from the lyrics to his first commercial success, "L.A. Freeway." Written in 1970, made famous by Jerry..."

July 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Bigger View With Blindspotting

How Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs on making the small screen bigger

"...out of their 2018 under-the-radar festival favorite and critical success. Blindspotting the movie was the culmination of years of..."

July 17, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Five true stories of a world in turmoil

"...the world, and if it does not push the creative envelope in the process, well, that certainly seems a..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Checking In: Sweet Spirit Alights to Trinidad

Austin glam rockers’ third LP casts a deep digi/Tropi spell

"...months of ‘officing.’ The behind-the-scenes world of music isn’t creative or expressive or instantly gratifying. It was months of..."

May 27, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 24-30

"...that I have been working hard and with great success to eliminate my unconscious tendency to hurt myself. And..."

April 24, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 26-April 1

"...a beloved activity that hasn’t garnered the level of success you’d hoped for. APRIL FOOL! The truth is, it..."

March 27, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

How the Red River Cultural District Was Made

Decades of off-kilter activity and music activism culminate in our current concert hub

"...the group may have been victims of their own success in rebranding the side street as a live music..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Rachel Rascoe

A Decade in Austin Films

The city’s cinema, from indie visions to Oscar winners and international blockbusters

"...a music city into one of the most important creative hubs for cinematic storytelling. Our writers have looked back..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Gifts to Make You Look Away From Your Screens

Plenty of films to read about this holiday season

"...Robert Rodriguez had the biggest commercial success of his career this year with his long-awaited adaptation..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Cyrano, My Love

The true (possibly) tale behind the writing of the French classic

"...take a loving of slightly goofy look at the creative process for the stage. Whether it’s broad spoof like..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Improviser Shannon Stott Brings Some Lord of the Rings to Out of Bounds

The Gandalf of improv is all over the comedy festival

"...care of an audience in a way that is creative and fun and surprising to me and the audience...."

Aug. 23, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rooster Teeth’s Animated Series gen:LOCK Brings an All-Star Cast to Dark Horizons

Michael B. Jordan, Maisie Williams, and David Tennant voice the Austin studio's team of misfits

"...wrapping RWBY season 4, and had a bona fide success on their hands, so the hunt was on for..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...But while he pursues dreams of the NBA, his success contrasts with the effects of gun violence on his..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Mother!

Jennifer Lawrence on the brink of madness

"...As a meditation of the predations that come with success and its dark twin fame – something Lawrence and..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Do ... Until I Don't

Marriage (comedies) ain't easy

"...the thesis of her new film, after the questionable success of Tween Jungle. And this is the entry into..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

10 Minutes With Jason Isbell

Three-show Moody Theater run begins tonight

"...weekend at the Moody Theater, Isbell spoke about his creative resurgence of the past five years, the pressures of..."

July 14, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Kevin McNamee-Tweed: The Exit Interview

As he leaves Austin, curator and artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed reflects on the city's artists and art community

"...different. That's the nice thing about material-based modes of creative inquiry; you work within the confines of the truth..."

March 10, 2017 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

Robert Earl Keen

Inside REK's inner sanctum, the "Scriptorium"

"...this month, he looks ahead with restless ambition. His success spurs away from traditional country, and he's defined a..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Seth MacFarlane furthers his Hollywood onslaught with this Western spoof in which he's no longer strictly a voice talent but is now playing the onscreen lead.

"...Show, and American Dad!). Yet after the surprising, blockbuster success in 2012 of his movie Ted – in which..."

May 30, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It's Not Easy Being Green

The city's Office of Sustainability is still trying to find a sustainable mission

"...Pro­gram. But beyond that meritorious ambition stand much less successful programs – like the city's complicated effort to green..."

April 5, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

'The NFL Beat': Week Two

Back to the grind

"...occurred in week one when the Patriots were having success running the ball with Stevan Ridley, and needed no..."

Sept. 15, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

The End of the Double Rainbow

Does it take a pot of gold now to go viral?

"...talk about "going viral" like it's the key to success. Aspiring comedians hoping to find an audience for a..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Jim Carrey plays a man who inherits six penguins in this family film that finds the actor neither too manic nor mawkish.

"...animals and CGI, but the animals, despite a little creative license, behave like the animals they were born to..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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