Delta Farce

In this multination offender, Larry the Cable Guy and two friends are Army reservists who are shipped off to Iraq but mistakenly wind up in Mexico – and can't tell the difference.

"...without offending state reservists.) Larry (Larry) is a restaurant manager with a humiliating cowboy uniform and a girlfriend (Christina..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Shane Black's directorial debut is a suckerpunch-and-a-half, a trippy tribute to L.A. noir and a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretensions that’s just as full of them as the pulp it lampoons.

"...outright fearlessness on the actor’s part. It’s a bravura performance, one that Kilmer has to run to keep up..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Freddy Got Fingered

"...features the hyperactive comic doing outrageous things to the man on the street (and frequently his long-suffering parents), such..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bauhaus

"...stay the same. From the spare, funereal pace of "Hollow Hills" to the double encore of "Ziggy Stardust" and..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Music Feature

Flirt

"...themes of love, trust, faith, and the dynamics of human relationships. With Flirt, Hartley makes his most ambitious film..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...I remember many hot summer afternoons when my master and I would..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

Estate Sale Roundup: October 17-19

The weather is perfect for rummaging

"...chrome ice buckets, vintage Buick toy car, Art Deco mantle clock, Kosta Boda vase, ornate wall sconce, Glenwood Blount..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Guest blogger professor Dana Cloud answers Frank's post

"...addition, the claim that things will get better is hollow when there is a complete silence on how they..."

Oct. 27, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Election Updates

Shootout at D.a. Corral

"...Patrick Woodson, an Earle campaign spokesman, counters Phelps' version of the story. "Actually, I hit..."

Nov. 1, 1996 News Feature

The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"...his clothes was cause for preachment from that old woman...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...and Poltergeist -- were, at their childlike heart, simple human dramas played out on an intergalactic scale. In Close..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

SXSW Record Reviews

"...of the dark soul. Walk this way with the man whose eyes bore deathlessly into your skull and let..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Sxsw

"...didn't really OD, but merely devised an acceptable and permanent escape from Blind Melon, then I suggest you look..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...his descendants reminisced about growing up under the old man's thumb. One is Melinda Marshall. Today a resident of..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...local talk radio show and bringing reactions from as many as seven people. Some acquaintances, after swearing me to..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...Sony Pictures Classics.) Of course, this summer offers dramas, romances, and comedies - although not much in the way..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...of native Mexicans moved north across the Rio Grande, many settling around San Antonio. With them came a curious..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.

"...one and only walk down the aisle with another woman. "I was losing the man that I loved," she..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

1999 Austin Film Releases

A complete list of all films released for theatrical runs in Austin in the calendar year 1999 and eligible for consideration in the Top Ten.

"...SHAGGED ME3.5(M.S.)6/11/99 AUTUMN TALE3.0(M.B.)8/27/99 BABY GENIUSES0(S.D.)3/19/99 THE BACHELOR1.0(S.D.)11/12/99 BAD MANNERS3.5(R.S.)2/5/99 BANDITS4.0(M.B.)10/15/99 BATS0(M.S.)10/29/99 BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS3.0(M.B.)9/24/99 BEING JOHN MALKOVICH4.5(M.B.)11/5/99 BESIEGED3.5(M.B.)7/16/99..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Book Reviews

"...and unbuttoned bodices, long, flowing hair, fiery-eyed women, and commanding muscular men, but she writes love stories, not romances...."

March 26, 1999 Books Review

Book Reviews

"...took. Barrett's latest mystery, Skinny Annie Blues, is in many ways his most off-beat, outrageous yet. And, coming on..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature

Owen Egerton Gets Physical for Mercy Black

Childhood trauma lingers in this Netflix horror

"...this week on Netflix, is the story of a woman (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's Daniella Pineda) released after a..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Evil That Men Do

Nothing Bad Can Happen, and other meditations on darkness

"...do, or something that we allow to happen? In German morality tale Nothing Bad Can Happen (Drafthouse Films), it's..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Got My Mojo Workin'

Paul Oscher used to blow harps for Muddy Waters

"...pulling jagged electric guitar lines from an old Harmony hollow-body. Then thick-toned Little Walter lines from a rack-mounted harmonica...."

June 27, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Fire in the Night, Music in Bone-Deep Bassnote Throbs

Reveling among the multiform delights of Art Outside

"...the night with giant wheeled butterflies and a ghost-pale, many-ridered rattlesnake that stretches almost a city block; about the..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Another Shadow-Day Knight

The Harry Ransom Center uncasks the curious life and works of Edgar Allan Poe

"...The man was a literary wonder: That's why we know about..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...annual open house each October. I was one of many New York kids who flew out for this year's..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...design clear into the squinting eye of the original man in the moon way back in 1914. That pioneering..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...we have Barton Springs, Town Lake, the bats, Hippie Hollow, the Sixth Street pseudo-Bourbon Street mess, overpriced musical events,..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...our legal efforts to protect the endangered Barton Springs salamander, though its help could be enormously beneficial...."

June 14, 2002 Column

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