Pom Poko

"Lost" Studio Ghibli tale of raccoons in peril gets long-delayed release

"...works. And then there were the problem plays, this weird melding of laughs and nightmares that never seemed to..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Holy Weapon

"...surrounding them. Jackie Chan cohort Maggie Cheung Man-yuk is delightfully perky as a spoiled princess, while Sandra Ng Kwan-yu..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Trollhunter

Wayward trolls threaten human life in this delightfully bizarre Norwegian film.

"...Holocaust, although here the heightened sense of the extremely weird borders on the farcically surreal. Thomas (Tosterud), Johanna (Mørck),..."

June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Addams Family 2

A spirit-crushing vacation for everyone's favorite ghouls

"...before arranging them in a vase) and introduced such delightfully weird characters as the diminutive hairball Cousin Itt and..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

French Exit

Pfeiffer embraces her zaniness in this tale of the ugly Americans in Paris

"...in and the dynamic is refreshed. Particularly, Valerie Mahaffey’s delightfully weird choices, like crawling across her couch in front..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Smoking Causes Coughing

Rubber director's sentai spoof is weird, discursive magic

"...It is that the film unfolds in such a delightfully discursive manner that to mention any of its elements..."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Marvel gets tiny, weird, and wonderful again

"...(Newton), and van Dyne's reunited parents, Hank Pym (the delightfully eccentric Douglas) and Janet van Dyne (a suitably enigmatic..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...Davis' J Records over differing marketing ideas for her delightfully glossy No Fear album, the Austin singer-songwriter has been..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SoCo Shopping

Local boutiques offer glitzy, weird, and downright Austin-y items

"...been around long enough to be self-aware of how weird it is, and the stores that now call this..."

June 14, 2016 Columns Post by Rivers Wright

Austin Music: What We're Listening to This Week

White Denim, Pocket Fishrmen, Sir Woman, and more recommended sounds

"...did not waste a moment of quarantine. Austin's most delightfully weird punk institution emerged with 11 sharp, tuneful, hilarious,..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Music Column by Austin Powell

Queer Collaboration Yields Otherworldly Campiness in p1nky and The Kwane: Another Soup Opera!

Genres collide in cartoon-inspired DIY musical

"...and props they’ve constructed, plan for interactive elements, and delightfully weird musical numbers are any indication – the performance..."

May 29, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Mac Irvine

Get Up Into the Arts Midwest Conference

Get Up – as in, Shannon McCormick & Shana Merlin

"...This show is FREE.) Next they'll take their off-the-cuff, delightfully weird-ass narrative show on the road. Big improv tour,..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts

Late-night Southern gothic from an insomniac

"...transcribed by Kinky Friedman, it's rife with Southern gothicisms, delightfully weird digressions, and the sort of 3am philosophizing that..."

June 15, 2012 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Dr. Demento

Dick Price pops up again

"...Moore at Emo's July 1, it's gonna be a delightfully weird month...."

June 14, 2011 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Tuesday with Teeth

Tonight just got less tame

"...at Beauty Bar, a decidedly different vibe and a delightfully weird show with a few bands from the Shdwply..."

July 22, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Japaniversary

A decade at SXSW and Japan's musical jack-in-the-box has lost none of its delight. China, Singapore, India, and Iran take their cue, in baby steps.

"...Delightfully weird Tokyo duo Kiiiiiii mixes a cappella cheers, electrostatic..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Elevator Game

Goofy horror-comedy transitions to ghoulish chiller at the flick of a switch

"...I have what I must admit is a weird gripe about the Insidious films. It's that one of..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Aporia

Judy Greer contemplates killing her own Hitler in this intriguing time-travel drama

"...voilà, Mal is back. He never left, and the weird but small changes to Sophie’s life – her shifts..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Kontroll

Hungarian writer-director Antal is like the conductor of a midnight express: Grab a rail and hold on while he whizzes through montages and extreme angles of impossibly precipitous escalators in the Budapest subway system.

"...per minute, you might call it Subwayspotting. The requisite weird little guy (Badár) even looks a little like Robert..."

July 8, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Wayne Alan Brenner's Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2017

Bold takes on history and art that moved around the city spoke to a growing, changing Austin this year

"...7) WEIRD HOMES TOUR Weird is in one's heart, of course..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Bill’s Oddball Odyssey

A robot’s epic adventure getting to tea in “Mainly Manly” video

"...wondrous world of Big Bill, Austin’s burgeoning New Wave weirdos, whose anxious and lysergic aesthetic translates into delightfully bizarre..."

June 6, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Cate Le Bon

"...frayed musical quirks to add her own element of weird, but Mug Museum remains delightfully off-kilter without resorting to..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Abby Johnston

Exhibitionism

The Ravaging: Seeds of a Biting Work

"...is manically acted by Andi Teran and Travis York delightfully oozes across the stage as Curtis Cash, Veronica's new..."

June 20, 1997 Arts Review

Faster Than Sound: Twain’s Texan Metamorphosis

The Big Thief favorite finds a home locally, Brew & Brew Solo Sets gratify, and a send-off to outlaw country drummer Paul English

"...of theirs in Boston, so it was like some weird fantasy joining your favorite band," remembers the singer...."

Feb. 14, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...begging him to visit, he is set on a weird path of discovery, unusual encounters… and a lot of..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...Small Crimes D: Evan Katz Small Crimes is a delightfully suspenseful, blackly comic tale that follows a disgraced former..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

We Learned It by Watching Movies

A film primer for the best in wicked entertainment

"...taboo. And yet The House of Yes – the delightfully witty tale of familial love and murder – touches..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

The Greatest Gift

An oral history unearthing one of post-punk's most seminal acts: Austin's Scratch Acid

"...was the underground sound du jour. Having embraced the weirder, artier sounds of groups like Public Image and the..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...GINGERSOL: Brooklyn's Gingersol plays delightfully melodic, rough-edged rock that recalls the Replacements, early Wilco,..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Intergalactic Nemesis Redux

Salvage Vanguard Theater has remounted The Intergalactic Nemesis and Return of the Intergalactic Nemesis, its pair of homages to the golden days of radio, with a double-bill of light-hearted, clever spins on those old serialized mysteries.

"...reporter Molly Sloan, sidekick Timmy Mendez, and lots of weird humans and weirder outer-space creatures. Sanders and Thomas play..."

June 21, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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