The Horrors of SXSW Can’t Touch Nate Southard

Local screamworthy scribe is sitting, we reckon, on a killer property

"...Of course there’s a plethora of horror-genre stuff going on at SXSW...."

March 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What If The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Was Really About the Horrors of Modern American Society?

Putting the Austin-made seminal slasher back into context

"...To paraphrase George Santayana, those who cannot remember the past may well be condemned to a chain saw..."

March 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Dark Backward

"...hand it to first-time director Rifkin: if nothing else, The Dark Backward is a rabidly Nineties type of film...."

Feb. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Reflecting Skin

"...and David Longworth. Like an irrational but beautiful dream, The Reflecting Skin unfolds with a clarity that's disturbing. It's..."

Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Zookeeper's Wife

World War II drama based on the bestselling book

"...The Zookeeper’s Wife tells a unique story of Holocaust heroism..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ambassador

With daring, gonzo filmmaking, this documentary film penetrates the blood-diamond trade in the Central African Republic.

"...Danish documentarian and full-time provocateur Mads Brügger is either fearless or insane, possibly a combination of both. His..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Haunting of Molly Hartley

A frighteningly dull updating of The Omen and Rosemary's Baby for the Gossip Girl set.

"...producer Liddell and co-screenwriters John Travis and Rebecca Sonnenshine the Beelzebubs of the banal thanks to this frighteningly dull..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Descent

Urban professionals go spelunking in an attempt to wipe away old horrors, only to find some new ones to call their own.

"...Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Oliver Milburn and Molly Kayll. Is The Descent the horror film to beat for the foreseeable..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Documentary about the effort to place children of European Jews during WWII within safe homes in England.

"...Directed by: Mark Jonathan Harris. Harris won the Best Documentary Oscar for 1997's The Long Way Home,..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Acid House

"...films adapted from Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh's collection of the same name with Danny Boyle's groundbreaking Welsh-adapted tale of..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Company of Men

"...no better movie this year than Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men. As disturbing as it is well-made,..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Quarrel

"...Cohen. Starring: Saul Rubinek and R.h. Thomson. Based on the story My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner by little-known Yiddish..."

June 25, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

In the Land of Blood and Honey

Angelina Jolie steps behind the camera to helm this picture she also wrote, which focuses on the emotional fallout of the Bosnian War.

"...Ironically, the very attributes that make Angelina Jolie’s debut as a..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let the Right One In

This multi-award-winning Swedish film might be summarized as a vampire tween romance, but that cheap and tawdry sum-up does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gem. A discussion of the adaptation follows the film.

"...Ah, young love. Whatever would we do without it? The multi-award-winning Swedish film Let the Right One In could..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ruins

Four friends on a Mexican vacation discover something evil among the Mayan ruins.

"...Laura Ramsey and Joe Anderson. In his short story "The White People," Welsh author and dark fantasist Arthur Machen..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ghost and the Darkness

"...it would be like to spend two hours inside the skull of Papa Hemingway? Here's your chance to find..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Welcome to the Dollhouse

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Heather Matarazzo, Brendan Sexton, Matthew Faber, Eric Mabius, Angela Pietropinto,..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Cowboy Way

"...Directed by: Gregg Champion. Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan Mcdermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono, Marg Helgenberger and..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Map of the Human Heart

"...both its narrative scope and its cinematography, Map of the Human Heart is an epic love story between two..."

May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Duel

Ridley Scott reinvents the historical drama through the lens of stardom

"...At the tender age of 83, Ridley Scott remains a force..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Birth of a Nation

Controversial slave uprising epic finally hits theatres

"...Jackie Earle Haley, Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gabrielle Union and Tony Espinosa...."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Moving Toward the Light

On the heels of its balletic colleagues, Chrous Austin melds music and movement to voice the unutterable

"...Those who did not attend Ballet Austin's remount of Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project last weekend missed an unmistakably..."

March 30, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

How The Pulse Nightclub Massacre Transformed "Conversion Therapist"

Local horror-tinged short makes the personal political

"...Conversion therapy - the quack science practice of using psychological and..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Edgar Cantero Scoobies the Fhtagn Right Out the Ol’ Lovecraft

The geek-savvy author brings his Meddling Kids to BookPeople

"...It’s here: The new paperback edition of Meddling Kids, that clever AF..."

June 15, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Zach Theatre's The Inheritance, Part 1

Epic in length and ambition, this portrait of gay life in the 21st century is stunning

"...The Inheritance, Part 1 is stunning. It’s the kind of..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Johannes Roberts Says Welcome to Raccoon City (Hope You Survive the Experience)

How the latest Resident Evil film goes back to basics

"...recognition. But when Johannes Roberts was tasked with rebooting the films for his new adaptation, Resident Evil: Welcome to..."

Nov. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: The Boy Behind the Door

David Charbonier and Justin Powell on their dark thriller

"...thriller to tackle, especially when it's all told from the kid's point of view. But in between the horrors..."

Sept. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Theatres Are Moving the Stage Beyond Zoom

Companies thinking outside the boxes bring theatre to your radio, your mailbox, and your neighbor's yard

"...For the first six months of the pandemic, the two words..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lit in the Time of Coronavirus

From emerging writer to potential vector at AWP in San Antonio

"...ends. It starts in August 1972, my dad sealing the deal on a used two-tone cobalt/sky blue Cutlass while..."

March 12, 2020 Arts Post by Mark Gozonsky

Staging Building the Wall Before Trump Builds His Wall

Robert Schenkkan races to get his latest work on stage

"...Robert Schenkkan had no time to waste. The playwright couldn't afford the years it took to craft..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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