Day Trips: World War I Memorials

Communities around Texas remember their fallen sons from the Great War

"...World War I memorials began sprouting on Texas courthouse lawns and..."

April 7, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

War Photographer

"...about James Nachtwey -- quite possibly the greatest living war photographer ever -- excruciatingly topical in its single-minded depiction..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

George A. Romero's Land of the Dead

Romero has again crafted a character-driven horror film that doubles as a metaphor for the economic disparity in America and, to a lesser degree, the war on terror.

"...cinematic taboo with the original Night of the Living Dead, and then topped himself twice again with 1978’s Dawn..."

June 24, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dead Presidents

"...have bitten off more than they can chew with Dead Presidents, an electrifying and occasionally powerful but unfocused work,..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Every generation gets the George A. Romero socio-political zombie opus they deserve. We must be living right, because this new film cuts right to the heart.

"...socio-political zombie opus they deserve. 2005's Land of the Dead, touted as Romero's comeback-little-Shiva head shot, now seems like..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Walking Dead

"...the plight of African-American soldiers in Vietnam,” The Walking Dead instead comes across as a straight-ahead, cookie-cutter festival of..."

March 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: My Dead Friend Zoe

A veteran processes her grief in emotional dark comedy

"...Grab the tissues: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’s directorial debut My Dead Friend Zoe is a dark comedy following Merit, a..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Madeline Duncan

Everything Went Black: I Was Dead Before Dead Was Cool

Shoot him in the head. He's dead, he's all messed up

"...from a 46-year-old who first latched onto the living dead well before he hit puberty?..."

Oct. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

The most costly and the most popular film in South Korean history is also one of the most gripping and epic war films ever made.

"...Je-gyu. Starring: Jang Dong-Gun, Won Bin and Lee Eun-Joo. War, uh, what is it good for? Some of the..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hart's War

"...by: Gregory Hoblit. Starring: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Marcel Iures, Cole Hauser, Vicellous Shannon, Rory Cochrane and..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waking the Dead

"...a seat behind the camera, directing the brilliantly evocative anti-war film A Midnight Clear, as well as the problematic..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The War Tapes

As raw and disturbing as it is wry and satirical, this film gives voice to U.S. National Guard soldiers in Iraq.

"...Zack Bazzi as he zooms his mini DV camera toward a septic-waste truck north of Baghdad, take on multiple..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The War Within

This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.

"...once a nonpracticing Muslim but now an anonymous holy warrior who unrolls his prayer mat five times daily and..."

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

War Watch

"Volunteer" international war correspondent visits Austin

"...Houston, and more recently Anchorage, who became an international war correspondent by volunteering for the job, visited Austin last..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Michael King

DVDanger: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

Star Alan Ormsby on the counterculture zombie classic

"...when Alan Ormsby starred in Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, it was all fresh meat. Ormsby said, "Everybody..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): Dead Skeletons

Icelandic aggression and attrition

"...Iceland’s Dead Skeletons evolved out of an art installation. Now, this..."

April 29, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

It's All Fun and Games Until Somebody Starts World War III

A Cold War classic turns 25

"...the Armageddon offensives faux-launched by a trigger-happy supercomputer in WarGames, the 1983 blockbuster that chilled to the bone anyone..."

July 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Latest Drug War Strategy: Cops Deliver the Drugs then Raid the House

SWAT team delivers drugs first, asks questions later

"...The endless War on Drugs hit another low on Wednesday when SWAT..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Bringing the War Home

No More Victims works for peace, one wounded child at a time

"...of Iraq in March 2003. The number of Iraqis dead and injured, though undoubtedly much higher, is unknown. In..."

Dec. 30, 2005 News Feature by Emily Pyle

War Made Easy

New echoes of Vietnam: 'Withdrawal would cripple U.S. credibility'

"...been frequent in the Oval Office. During the Vietnam War, such fixations were indifferent to the fact that the..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Norman Solomon

Civil War Landscapes and Legacies When Johnny Came Marching Home

"...The number of words written about the Civil War surpassed the actual dead on the battlefield well before..."

July 21, 1995 Arts Feature

Drug War Blowback

Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny

"...Kevlar vests and helmets, preparing to execute a drug warrant at the home of Felix and Cruz Rosales in..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Once Upon a War Story

Quentin Tarantino rewrites the spaghtetti western with a side of sour Krauts in Inglourious Basterds

"...with the local premiere of Inglourious Basterds, a World War II fantasia about American GIs hunting Nazis and the..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

I See Dead People

The Black Angels conjure Austin's psychedelic renaissance

"...as he recalls the gray outline of a Civil War soldier drifting among the trees at the Chickamauga battlefield..."

May 9, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...to spring up throughout the South after the Civil War. "The west side of the auditorium was filled with..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Everywhere Is War

A beginner's discography to Rock en Español

"...still being dragged out of their beds in the dead of night by government death squads, or worse, rebel..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Half a World Away, and at War

How one journalist went from a desk job to covering the war in Congo

"...imagined he would stumble into covering the shockingly underreported war in Congo – the death toll of which would..."

May 16, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Telling War Stories

National Book Award winner and SWT professor Tim O'Brien is real. He's blunt. But he's also, according to Chronicle editor Sarah Hepola, responsible for her hangover.

"...Prize nominee, Washington Post reporter, recreational gambler, National Book Award winner, Harvard student -- but most people associate Tim..."

April 28, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Drop Dead Gorgeous

This parody of beauty pageants in the flyover states takes the form of a mockumentary filmed at Minnesota's Sarah Rose Miss Teen Princess America Pageant.

"...versa, making this less a contest than an all-out war. Into this combustible mix Jann throws a bizarre panel..."

July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Means War

Hear from the star and co-directors of I Declare War

"...I Declare War, the latest release from Drafthouse Films, takes place one..."

Aug. 29, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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