Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin, V/H/S/99, sharks, and more

"...Casanova Spain, Argentina, 2022, U.S. Premiere, 84 min. A terminal cancer diagnosis upends a claustrophobic mother-son relationship in Spain’s..."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

14 Austin Terror Fest Picks

The best metal for brave ears

"...Unearthly Trance left an ugly smear on the Long Island landscape beginning in 2000. A 2012 breakup proved short-lived,..."

June 7, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Graham's bear necessities illustrations. 1997 debut Escape From Monster Island now roars and rasps on vinyl for the first..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...dancehall into infectious Jamaican pop. YouTube enthusiasts: 2016 single "Island Girl" (not Elton John's 1976 hit), an erotically catchy..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

SXSW Music List Four

Spoon, Kate Nash, Malcolm London, and 141 more added

"...Al Rocco (Hong Kong Island, China)..."

Jan. 19, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Other Worlds Austin Adds Owen Egerton's Latest

Plus sci-fi fest's closing night title, and shorts

"...Dreamer" D: David Gaddie, USA, 26 min. Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to..."

Nov. 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Enter the Domain With Other Worlds Austin

Sci-fi film festival adds world premiere, new score, and award winners

"...iconic movie joins the list: Erle C. Kenton's masterful Island of Lost Souls, the 1932 adaptation of The Island..."

Nov. 5, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: Six Baseballs for Cuba

Capt. Day Trips makes friends in Cuba by handing out new baseballs

"...got – six total. After I got to the island nation, I wished I had brought chewing gum, too...."

March 16, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Page Two: May the Circle Be Unbroken

Exploitation film's family tree

"...was college. And we're talking Black Mama White Mama, Terminal Island, The Student Teachers, Crazy Mama, Bloody Mama. Just..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Making Music from the Sound of Speech

Austin's JoySpeak Project brings light from conquered darkness.

"..."I'm focusing on people with terminal illness," says Creed. "People that have such a hardship..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Shine a Light

'In the Shadow' and more selections from the 15th annual Cine Las Americas

"...the water, because it's an active element on that island that you are literally surrounded by all the time...."

April 20, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Exploitation's Glass Ceiling

Feminist filmmaker Stephanie Rothman on her short but brilliant run making B-movies

"...World, The Student Nurses, The Velvet Vampire, Group Marriage, Terminal Island, and The Working Girls – are all solidly..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A History of Pigs in America

"...cattle and the offspring of Columbus' pigs on the island of Hispaniola boucanier. English colonists anglicized the word to..."

April 10, 2009 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Death Race

All the busted heads and blasted gaskets can't turn this makeover of a cult classic into anything but a real drag.

"...safely taking place behind the privatized penitentiary walls of Terminal Island, while being streamed live via the Internet to..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...and The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman), Terminal Island (Stephanie Rothman), Jackson County Jail (Michael Miller), Vanishing..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Fare Fight

The pending sale of Roy's Taxi company raises a host of Austin memories

"...owning her own ride, Nwoko pays $220 weekly in terminal fees, plus maintenance, bonding costs, and additional surcharges (Roy's..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Larkin's Journey

New York choreographer Regina Larkin keeps coming back to Ballet East

"...as varied as spirituality, women, nature, Native Americans, and terminal illness to the melodies of Roberta Flack, Nina Simone,..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

Back to the Grind House

On the occasion of QT 6, an ode to the demented poetry of triple bills in iniquitous theatres

"...suburb, we took a bus to the Port Authority terminal on 42nd Street, and then walked down that street..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

An insular father-daughter relationship comes apart in writer-director Rebecca Miller's drama, which also stars her actor-husband Daniel Day-Lewis.

"...Rose (Belle), live in an abandoned commune on an island off the east coast of the U.S. Jack still..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sucking, Spewing, and Burning LNG and the Texas Gulf

Plans for LNG terminals in the Gulf of Mexico raise major environmental questions

"...The safety issues include the explosive volatility of LNG terminals, compounded by their close proximity to residential populations and..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Summer Fun

Oh, Galveston

"...of martini concoctions, and prime location, 21 is the island's new "It" girl, as it were. At the corner..."

May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...a few years ago with a killer debut on Island means nothing: This cat's got many lives left to..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...everything looked fine to you down on South Padre Island ["Postmarks," Feb. 16, 2001]? Get educated, and maybe you..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

Resurrecting Cointelpro; The Cold Side of 'Workfare'

"...A+. He had almost perfect attendance, cleaning the Coney Island Subway terminal, where his tasks included disposing of bodily..."

Dec. 28, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Spy Game

"...problem. The story, by writer Michael Frost Beckner (Cutthroat Island), is repeatedly and willfully stopped cold every time graying..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Why Mike Clark-Madison's cover story will be informative even to the most experienced city veteran, and why the work of exploitation director Stephanie Rothman deserves serious study.

"...Rothman and her work (including The Velvet Vampire and Terminal Island) can seem as exciting or as important as..."

May 18, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Working Girls

What do the eight films in the Austin Film Society's latest free series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s" have in common? They are all works by inherently feminist filmmakers, and the chronological order of the series tracks the growth of American feminist thought during these two decades.

"...filmmakers got their start. Two films in this series, Terminal Island by Stephanie Rothman and Humanoids From the Deep..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Terminal Island

"...Selleck, Roger E. Mosley and Clyde Ventura. "Welcome to Terminal Island, baby." This Seventies exploitation gem has been repackaged..."

May 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

To what citywide scandal has our monopoly daily directed its powerful attention? It's a local scourge, a plague, a deep-rooted city problem: the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals. (Okay, well, we don't get it either.)

"...May 22 Terminal Island (1973), Stephanie Rothman..."

May 11, 2001 Column by Louis Black

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...already late. While our two-hour drive down the Long Island Expressway turns breathtaking 30 minutes outside the city, an..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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