McConaughey and Harrelson Ask Texas Senators for New Film Incentives

New fund would smooth out cash crunches ... for culture warriors

"...met yesterday to discuss a massive new investment in film and TV production incentives that would break the current..."

April 1, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Waterloo Records Owner John Kunz Saves His 42-Year-Old Baby – By Selling It

With new partners in tow, the pioneering record store moves up Lamar

"...big bite for someone to take, and money and financing were not magically appearing. However, we had an angel..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Film Festival Review: The Stones Are Speaking

A Central Texas dig site offers new insight into human history

"...in by-the-numbers fashion. However, the main focus of the film is the Gault Archeological Site, located in Central Texas,..."

Oct. 27, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Texas Senate Warms Up to Film Incentives After Taylor Sheridan's Testimony

Yellowstone franchise mastermind makes argument for funding

"...long and star-studded hearing about how to attract more film and TV production to the Lone Star State...."

Oct. 10, 2024 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Megalopolis

Bold but frustrating vision of the American empire in decline

"...the sole invention and reflection of its writer/director. The film is a story about society, creation, history, and the..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Festival Adds First Panels for 2024

The Last of Us and The Simpsons make a date

"...They may call it the Austin Film Festival, but the first wave of panels announced for..."

Aug. 14, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin-Made Comedy Home Free Is Taking Homelessness Seriously

How a chance encounter in 1997 keeps changing lives

"...A lot of filmmakers say their film was truly conceived in Austin, but..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Farewell to the Danger God: Gary Kent (1933-2023)

The stunt legend who called Austin home died this week

"...a danger. Whatever it was, Austin stunt performer and filmmaker Gary Kent, who died Thursday in a South Austin..."

May 26, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Killing Nazis the Finnish Way: Jalmari Helander on Hyperviolent Action-Comedy Sisu

How mud and sand made for a gritty World War II romp

"...In Jalmari Helander's office, there are two film posters. One is for Rare Exports, his unexpected international..."

April 25, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Trusting Your Gut: Texas Film Awards Honoree Michael de Luca on a Life in Cinema

From New Line to Warners, the exec discusses his career

"...Luca is being honored this week at the Texas Film Awards seems to be Michael de Luca himself. Modestly,..."

March 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Weird Wednesday Celebrates Low-Budget Legend Albert Pyun

An unstoppable workhorse whose films celebrated earnest fun

"...A aspiring film artist harboring a sprawling pulp vision – radioactive dreams..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Screens Feature by Julian Towers

Austin Filmmakers Take Their Three Headed Beast to Tribeca

Open relationship drama gets its world premiere

"...Beast is getting its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, it's to never give up...."

June 9, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Archives: Organizing Outside the System – Deborah Shaffer and The Wobblies

Our 1981 interview with the filmmaker behind the classic doc

"...union activism in America has rarely been captured on film – especially its earliest days – than in The..."

May 3, 2022 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

An unmissable lesson in this county's tortured history

"...As the film’s screenwriter and presenter Jeffery Robinson notes, the best educations..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Michael King

Fantasia Interview: A Vision Quest With Richard Bates Jr. in King Knight

Coven comedy where the witches are just like us. Dorks.

"...With films like the grisly Excision and violent social satire Tone-Deaf,..."

Aug. 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Jeffery Robinson's captivating lecture on America's shared legacy

"...As the film’s screenwriter and presenter Jeffery Robinson notes, the best educations..."

March 24, 2021 Screens Post by Michael King

Banned Leader: The Contradiction of Frank Zappa in Zappa

Alex Winter sees the combative side of a cultural maverick

"...documentary (which screened as part of the Sound Unseen film festival and is available on VOD now) does not..."

Jan. 6, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Justin G. Dyck Would Do Anything for Jackson

Christmas romance movie maker delivers this year's chilliest horror

"...Anything for Jackson, because it was his first horror film a lot of people thought it was his first..."

Dec. 30, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin's Flatiron Pictures Acquires The Naked Rower

Studio to develop story of Olympian Rob Hamill

"...days to travel from Tenerife to Barbados. However, the film will also tackle a great tragedy in Hamill's life,..."

Nov. 25, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Horror Crew Launch Bloodoath Filmmaker Consulting

Paper Street creatives join forces with genre experts

"...not knowing who to ask about anything. Now veteran filmmakers and distribution experts, including many recognizable names from the..."

Nov. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

20 Years of Austin Studios

More than just soundstages: Looking back on the unique success of Austin Studios

"...It's a memorable moment in film history: Sandra Bullock strutting on high heels out of..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin-Made Horror Anthology Comes Back Home for Other Worlds

Delivering a Scare Package

"...few things Aaron B. Koontz hates more than horror films that mock horror films. So while his new anthology..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

David Giancola Puts the Pedal to the Metal With Axcellerator

Director leaves tragedy behind and embraces the B-movie

"...can hear David Giancola's grin on the phone. The filmmaker is driving from his home in Vermont to Boston..."

June 25, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rafiki

Kenyan LGBTQ drama is a miracle solely for existing, yet also a vibrant, colorful romance

"...voice intones barely above a whisper. In the Kenyan film Rafiki (the title is the Swahili word for “friend,”..."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019

Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer

"...Becoming Leslie, 5:30pm, Rollins Theatre, Badge required..."

March 1, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

The Future May Finally Be Brightening for Texas Film Incentives

The sequel to film rebates?

"...it to Hollyweird, the state's economic support for the film, TV, commercial, and gaming industries has seen its financing..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

UT Grad Brings Politics Back to the Multiplex With The Oath

Producer Ray Mansfield and star/first-time filmmaker Ike Barinholtz on their timely satire

"...There's a change in modern cinema. For decades, films with an overt political message seemed doomed to failure;..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Long Road to Telling Cathy's Tale

Author Sarah Bird's journey from overheard story to screenplay to book

"...appropriate. She decided Williams' story could be told through film. So she wrote a screenplay, but it didn't go..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Arts Feature by Marisa Charpentier

Fantastic Fest: Starfish Clings to Grief

Writer/director AT White on how his own loss shaped his film

"...Every film is somewhat intimate to the filmmaker: A.T. White, the..."

Sept. 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Stream Analysis

Dispatches from the couch

"...avoiding this New World Order (no, not that one). Film distribution is currently in flux, a tumultuous time where..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

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