The Cult of Truland

Pop culture sparkles over the edges of Kevin Brass' mystery set among the SoCal celeb set

"...The Cult of Trulandby Kevin Brass Glowing Sand Media, 350..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Michael King

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...Everybody knows Ray Benson: the big guy with the big hat, booming baritone, and..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): The Cult of Dom Keller

The madcap still laughs – occasionally

"...There’s a fine line between studied artistic apathy and the..."

April 29, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

The Cult of Neutral Milk Hotel

Suddenly, there they were, first show of a sold-out Moody stand

"...At the bright age of 17, I took my first paycheck..."

Feb. 18, 2014 Music Post by Luke Winkie

Documentaries and the Cult of Personality

How documentarians pick a winner

"...I had a thought the other day while watching Frontrunners, Caroline Suh’s documentary about..."

March 12, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Cult of Nick Curran Remembers His Guitar Genius

From rhythm & blues to rockabilly and punk, the late Austin shredder lived to subvert genres

"...Iggy Pop once claimed that his groundbreaking group the Stooges plied a version of the blues aimed at..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Making 'Room' in the Cult Canon

Tommy Wiseau's so-bad-it's-sublime debut feature

"...Tommy Wiseau, the enigmatic director, star, and co-executive producer of 2003's independently..."

May 1, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Playback – Nonprofit Holidays: The Cult of Black Fret and More

Homegrown music nonprofits that need your holiday cheer

"...accepted his $17,000 grant at Saturday's Black Fret Ball, the local singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist promised, "I'm going to invest all this..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Cult of Pitchfork

How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine

"...There's never an excuse, in 2006, for men to wear..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...said that you had to get rid of all the toxic people in your life? Not when they're the..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Strange things are afoot in the morgue

"...As consumers of fiction, we’ve become used to the concept of unreliable narrators, but what to make of..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

How much you'll love (or loathe) JB and KG's passion for the power chord and all it entails will depend, most likely, on your familiarity with the duo beforehand.

"...a verdant midnight glen (kinda). JB's hallucinatory romp with the furry one is classic Tenacious D weirdness: It's stoner..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Visually stunning sequel to the cult 1995 anime.

"...upgrade in this loquacious albeit visually stunning sequel to the cult 1995 animé. Set in Tokyo in 2032, Innocence..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Game

"...and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Shadows, fluorescent lighting, and David Fincher. The unholy trio. Fincher's first outing since the wildly popular..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

David X. Cohen Brings Futurama Back to the Future

ATX Television Festival brings some of the cult show's voice actors together for a table read

"...national heroes for saving Brooklyn Nine-Nine when Fox dropped the popular sitcom...."

June 8, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Erica Nix's New Show Promises This Is Not a Cult

Get swept up in communal aspect of spiritual sweep-ups

"...Wellness is near impossible to describe unilaterally; that’s why the National Wellness Institute proclaims there to be six dimensions..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Fantasia Review: Cult Hero

Silly Canadian comedy-horror gets the biggest laughs from its smarts

"...If there isn't a show called Cult Buster, there maybe should..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Finding Sasquatch in Summoning the Spirit

How a Texas bigfoot migrated to Oregon for new cryptid horror

"...Is there a word for fans of bigfoot movies? There are..."

Aug. 10, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Greasy Strangler

It's lewd, crude, and full of grease

"...The idea of the cult classic has historically been linked..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Review: Emma Cline's The Girls

This seismic literary debut tracks a California girl drawn to a dark cult in 1969

"...novel with some social significance, set (or not) in another time, illuminating the present, becoming an instant sensation. It..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

The Big Bounce

There's very little bounce in this new Elmore Leanard adaptation that stars Owen Wilson and Morgan Freeman.

"...is as cute as a box of kittens, but there’s just not a lot of juice in this limp..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Endless

Sibling banter and cosmic terror means observational comedy horror.

"...There's no more abused term in horror fiction than Lovecraftian...."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Highlander II: The Quickening

"...Christopher Lambert, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside and Sean Connery. The original Highlander (1986) is one of those films that..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Louis Black

Life at the Cha-Cha Palace

Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.

"...It was one of the most schizophrenic eras, but so typical of Austin --..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Office Space Star David Herman Is the Real Michael Bolton

"Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks!"

"...First released in 1999, Office Space remains one of the most relatable and hilarious comedies of all time. Mike..."

March 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Britt Hayes

Confessions From the King of Fuzz

Cult soundtrack composer Davie Allan comes to the Alamo Ritz

"...That's the first confession from the cult composer whose signature sound..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...SXSW has strapped on the rockets with not just a few titles for this..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

They Bring the Party

Party Down Ultimate Marathon: May make you kinda stalky

"...The Alamo Drafthouse has been hyping for a couple months..."

June 15, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

One in a Crowd: The Away Team

Millenarian cult mockery seeks crowdfunding

"...Tragedy plus time equals comedy, as the saying goes. So nearly two decades after America was..."

June 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Vaults: Phantasm-ania

Don Coscarelli, Angus Scrimm, and Reggie Bannister talk 'Phantasm'

"..."Call it existential-surrealist horror, and you're halfway there," said the Chronicle's Marc Savlov in 2000 while describing..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

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