Eighties Punks Meat Joy Reminisce After Landing in Austin for Reunion Dates

Triple homecoming shows around their 1984 LP reissue kick off tomorrow

"...– dished on the joy of found treasures in early-Eighties Austin...."

Oct. 17, 2023 Music Post by Genevieve Wood

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Sharon Watkins

Chez Zee maven looks forward to another 25 years

Dec. 5, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Early to Rise

Daniel Johnson loves early music's purity of sound and intimacy, and he's not alone

Dec. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Susan Auler

Winery owner helped define Austin as wine and food destination

Nov. 17, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Dennis Hopper Is Totally Not on Drugs in Eighties Gem White Star

White lightning in a bottle at AFS Cinema

Oct. 4, 2019 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Something Old, Something New, Something Eighties, Something P.U.

Scanlines' Summer Rentals, Games, and Favorites

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature

Lou Reed Box Set Tells Tale of Early Solo Career

The RCA & Arista Album Collection's 17 discs document the Seventies and Eighties

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Elaine Martin

Chef, restaurateur helped pioneer Eastside treasure

Feb. 18, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

AFS Spotlights the Early Work of Support the Girls Director Andrew Bujalski

Three from the heart

Jan. 4, 2019 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

George Kinney, Who Helmed the Golden Dawn’s Early Psych Rock Treasure Power Plant, Has Died

Homegrown psychedelic trailblazer passes at 75

July 18, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sleepers Worth Showing Up Early For

April 29, 2016 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Valerie & Stephanie Schuster

Upper Crust Bakery is a sister act

July 15, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Jackie Davies

Austin entrepreneur was national restaurant delivery pioneer

April 10, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Up Too Early

Google Streetview fashion critique from West Riverside Drive

July 22, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

The House of the Devil

This retro horror film is the freakiest and most unnerving shocker in theatres this season.

"...Devil is an assuredly sinister and faithful re-creation of late-Seventies/early-Eighties horror that succeeds (mostly) in lulling the audience into..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights gets under the skin of the porn film industry's exuberant burst of public semirespectability in the late Seventies, prior to the home-video revolution that changed the rules of the game forever. The movie is no socio-cultural abstract though; it is at heart the story about a group of characters and the de facto family that emerges from their relationships.

Oct. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Son of Rambow

Amid this endearing story about two boys in Eighties England who join together to make their own Rambo movie, lies an uncommon, unaffected portrayal of young male intimacy.

"...of a strict (and unspecified) religious sect in the early-Eighties, young Will Proudfoot (Milner) is a runty innocent mourning..."

May 16, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Skateland

Skateland is a sweet, knowing, visually spot-on evocation of early-Eighties teen life in a small East Texas town.

"...Skateland is a sweet, knowing, visually spot-on evocation of early-Eighties teen life, and while maybe nothing much seems to..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waking the Dead

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blood Simple: The Director's Cut

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Lie

A well-told story about four lost boys and girls of the Sudan in America gets a welcome assist from Hollywood.

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mystery Date

"...whole mess around and force the silliness of this early-eighties sub-sub-sub-genre to work in a whole new way. Hawke..."

Aug. 23, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Charlie Wilson's War

Despite a script by Aaron Sorkin, direction by Mike Nichols, and star turns by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this good-natured geopolitical romp falls flat.

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hoboken Hollow

This Texas-made slasher film draws on the early Eighties Ellebracht slave-ranch case in Kerr County for its story, but like the real thing, it's a bloody mess.

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Shawn Badgley

City of God

City of God, like the Rio de Janeiro housing project for which it’s named, is often grim and dire, but the film is also imbued with hope and transcendence.

March 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Imagine the Sound

April 30, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wet Hot American Summer

Spoof of old summer-camp sexcapades is performed by a sprawling cast of comedic hams, largely culled from comedy troupe the State.

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Heavy Metal

With music by Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Devo, Grand Funk Railroad, Sammy Hagar, Journey, Nazareth, and Stevie Nicks, this animated anthology is a heady mix of sci-fi, sex, and early Eighties hard rock.

"...and occasionally brilliant coupling of American animation and classic early-Eighties heavy metal (does anybody even remember Riggs and Trust?)...."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Return to a Better Tomorrow

Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

In the Army Now

"...comrades from certain death. A loose rip-off of the early-Eighties Bill Murray/Harold Ramis vehicle Stripes, director Petrie, Jr. (Toy..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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