Austin At Large: What Are Y'all Afraid Of?

Framing the gains and losses on all sides of Austin's battles over land use

"...When you study communications, you learn quickly about framing effects and how loss framing is more potent than..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

In the Heart of the Sea

Ron Howard sets sails with that famous Nantucket whale story

"...combative for Bradbury’s taste). Howard’s film employs a smart framing device for the saga, in which an Essex survivor,..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B

Be the most knowledgeable voter at your Oscar party

"...16-year-old Chau, a Vietnamese teenager disabled due to the effects of Agent Orange. Placed in a care center at..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Programs A & B

"...Chau – a Vietnamese teenager disabled due to the effects of Agent Orange – who, painting with his mouth,..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Men, Women & Children

We might be able to connect as human beings if we could just disconnect from from our wired lives, says this movie about our modern world.

"...disconnect, or something. A hysterical hand-wringer about the stunting effects of technology, dressed up as a dispenser of unvarnished..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Live Action

Judge for yourself among the five films contending for this year's Oscar for live-action short. The five international shorts nominated for Best Live Action Short Film include Patrik Eklund’s “Instead of Abracadabra," Luke Doolan's “Miracle Fish," Juanita Wilson's “The Door,” Gregg Helvey's “Kavi," and Joachim Back’s award-winning “The New Tenants.”

"...creates a small-scale, but fully realized, portrait of the effects of history’s most devastating nuclear accident without ever so..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dr. Seuss' The Grinch

Everyone's favorite Christmas misanthrope loses his edge

"...film in IMAX, but I could see the filmmakers’ framing for it in the first-person perspective of vertiginous drops..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The One

"...is pretty much what you get: a half-assed storyline framing a series of lavishly staged, wire-aided martial arts extravaganzas..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...silly to eerie and back again. Occasionally knockout special effects (a vision of the shores of Heaven upon which..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...and Ms. Hyde is instead a terminally lame special effects comedy with next to no laughs, smarts, or originality...."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

FF2012: How Fantastic Fest Got Twisted Up By 'American Mary'

Jen and Sylvia Soska are the new twins of evil

"...them, is the lighting right on you, is the framing right on you, did the focus come in and..."

Oct. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Seven Days in Heaven and Hell

Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest

"...you know, it's still my film, and [former KNB effects master] Greg Nicotero godfathered the effects work, and then..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...of pithy quips one moment and cheesy, oft-repeated special effects the next. Bassett, for her part, adds the only..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...of pithy quips one moment and cheesy, oft-repeated special effects the next. Bassett, for her part, adds the only..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

What We're Listening to This Week

Dayglow, Sunny Sweeney, Chucky Blk, Alexi 8bit, and more local sounds worth your time

"...producer Sloan Struble turns up bright synths, wacky sound effects, and hella falsetto vocals on his third LP's reach..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Music Column by Kriss Conklin

Memorable Moments From ACL Fest Weekend One

Some of our favorite performances that you can revisit this weekend

"...five tunes from 2021 star-crossed – a somewhat heavy-handed framing that inadvertently encapsulated their missing lightness of touch. This..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

AISD's "School Changes" Process Places Equity Front and Center

“Historically, this is a very racist city, and unfortunately, this school district is a part of that system"

"...parent and UT professor, told us that the "basic framing" of the plan showed a lack of vision and..."

Sept. 13, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Evan Smith on the Secret of Texas Tribune’s Success

Founder and CEO on the present and future of nonprofit journalism

"...Framing the Tribune’s aggressively “nonpartisan” approach to reporting, he acknowledged..."

March 13, 2019 News Post by Michael King

DVDanger: Horror for the Holidays, Part 1

Vintage re-releases for unseasonal scares

"...segment and a Kickstarter-funded indie project). The interlinking animated framing mechanism seems cheap, like a Heavy Metal outtake. Even..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Monsterland

Creature feature anthology, plus The Funhouse Massacre

"...falls apart because it never really hangs together. The framing mechanism is often forgotten about (so much so that..."

June 18, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Of Manos and Mosquito

Two schlocky classics get a pre-Halloween restoration

"...loosely) Robert Guidry doesn't seem overly bothered by composition, framing, lighting, or (in several key sequences) focusing. The performances,..."

Oct. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Invention of Love

Ambitious script, gifted cast take us inside a brilliant mind in Austin Shakespeare's production

"...abstract waves painted onstage, with loosely draped fabrics softly framing the scene. Jason Amato's mesmerizing lighting once again completes..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

The Drink/Drank/Drunk Issue: Operation: Absinthe

Going in search of a new world in absinthe

"...ink, as only business-like black will do, and starts framing all of the art before it goes on the..."

July 9, 2013 Food Post by Anne Harris

FlashDance, but Flashier: 30 More Dances in 60 Minutes

These microdances had beginnings, middles, and ends, and also heart

"...dancers performed equivalent steps that resulted in strikingly different effects...."

Dec. 9, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Sorting the Family's Dirty Laundry

AFS Documentary Tour revisits Alan Berliner's 1991 film Intimate Stranger

"...that could have benefited from things like Photoshop, After Effects, and nonlinear editing systems, this was it. I shot..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Chac-Mool

A rare glimpse inside the inner circle of accordion pioneer Esteban 'Steve' Jordan

"...once black as jet, is now shot with gray, framing his thin face dominated by the ever-present patch over..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Zeppelin 3

"...since the first track discos “Bubblelog Aftermath,” laser sound effects, Miami blackout, the whole nine yards. Dance partner “Cry..."

March 28, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Photoasis

Will van Overbeek's camera captures the eternal allure of Austin's favorite swimming hole

"...of wireless laptops, terror levels, and debate about the effects of global warming, and it remains popular because, global..."

June 29, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

There Is No Try ...

Foleyvision does the Turkish 'Star Wars'

"...Enter Austin's Foleyvision, Buzz Moran's sound effects 'n' dialogue troupe, who have united once again with..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...be backed up the Republican Supreme Court), and eloquently framing its importance for his readers, like only he knows..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Column

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