Lady Bird

An enchanting coming-of-age tale from Greta Gerwig

"...In her first solo writing and directing effort, the hard-working indie film actress Greta Gerwig proves that she is..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Atomic Blonde

Spies duke it out in Cold War-era Berlin

"...James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones and Roland Møller...."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Audits Ahead for APD Crime Labs

Forensics lab to onboard new director, plus SARRT letter

"...Austin Police Department shuttered its DNA lab due to out-of-date procedures and unqualified analysts, department officials have tapped a..."

July 17, 2017 News Post by Sarah Marloff

The Lovers

Breaking the doldrums of marriage

"...vows is moribund. They put up with each other out of sheer loveless inertia, communicating via monosyllabic non sequiturs..."

May 19, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fifty Shades Darker

Oh bondage, I'm yours!

"...There’s something liberating about reviewing a film that is bulletproof. This franchise of..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Future Is in Flux for the Texas Film Incentive Program

Texas loses productions to states with bigger and better incentive programs

"...rent an office at Austin Studios but is now working out of Atlanta. She said, "The incentives war has..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc: Strew Your Seed

Usable knowledge in the agricultural sciences

"...Neighbors have raved at my success. When they matured about June or July, I pulled up the dry plants..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Leon and Stella Alesi: Love Conjures All

Leon and Stella Alesi provide ocular proof of a life in the arts

"...in-home gallery that showcases a diversity of Austin artists throughout the year...."

Oct. 28, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Doc chronicles a shameful chapter in San Antonio history

"...the start that Deborah Esquenazi’s film couldn’t care less about aesthetics, filming the story’s participants in various roadside diners..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Pete's Dragon

Old Disney musical is remade as a new children's classic

"...magical dragons. But Lowery does have a knack for working with actors and eliciting from them heartfelt performances. Thus,..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cracking the Mighty Coconut

Inside the Austin animation studio

"...it's already making an impact: The studio has already outgrown its first offices on South Lamar, moved up Burnet,..."

July 22, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Interview: Santigold

Philly pop songstress struggles with change on new disc 99¢

"...singer had a son, took on acting, and put out a makeup collaboration with Smashbox. Midnight slot scheduled for..."

March 18, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Midnight Special

Is a boy with special gifts a savior or a weapon – or neither?

"...Shelter, and Mud), Midnight Special finds the Austin-based filmmaker working here in the familiar American genres of chase films..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

99 Homes

Orlando real-estate drama is a microcosm of the U.S. financial crisis

"...2007-09, 99 Homes has enough dramatic moments of boo/hiss outrage to stir up audiences, but it’s unfortunately not the..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sinister 2

Round 2 for this supernatural horror franchise

"...Deputy So-and-So (Ransone, his character remaining unnamed) from Sinister working as a private investigator whose main raison d’être now..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Committee Versus Commission

Public Safety Chairmen Rossmo and Zimmerman trade invitations

"...length of three minutes. Rossmo, likely on his way out the door after six years of service and nearly..."

June 12, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Slow West

A whimsical and wistful fable follows a young romantic and a hard-nosed realist out West

"...the American Civil War as a collection of natives, outlaws, and settlers often meet violent ends in pursuit of..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Food-o-File

Let them eat brisket

"...providing Larsen and her team the freedom to create without having to keep an eye on the ovens or..."

May 8, 2015 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

MerlinWorks Works the Improv Wizardry at ZACH

Teaching that whole yes-and thing at the city's shiny core of theatre

"...that Shana Merlin-helmed powerhouse of improv training, has been working out of ZACH Theatre for the last couple of..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Homesman

Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones point their wagon east while confronting the myths of the Old West.

"...east – for confirmation. The Homesman is a story about the human toll of our nation’s westward expansion, about..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Zero Theorem

This science-fiction romp from director Terry Gilliam explores a demented and surreal technological future.

"...endless attempt to film Don Quixote, Gilliam’s film is about a lone, slightly mad hero's picaresque journey through a..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Be Here Now: Ray Lamontagne

Writer’s block? Call Elvis Costello!

"...performance Friday at the Long Center, we talked to about focus and Elvis Costello – among other things...."

July 31, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Through the Weeds of Hemlock Grove

Famke Janssen, Landon Liboiron talk going off-book for season two

"...a body bag, presumed dead, with her tongue ripped out by her own son. Janssen conceded, "That leaves you..."

July 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Optimus Prime finds a new pal in franchise addition Mark Wahlberg.

"...a black-ops mission to eliminate Autobots and Decepticons alike, working in league with intergalactic bounty hunter Lockdown (voiced by..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Marmalakes Homecoming

Popular Austin trio returns from tour to ready its debut LP

"...Marmalakes rounds out its seventh tour with a homecoming fête Friday at..."

June 5, 2014 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Rise of the Valkyrie

Kate Leth talks women in comics and fake geek girl phobia

"...The good thing is that he was quickly called out for it. The bad thing? That he even thought..."

May 26, 2014 Books Post

God's Pocket

Philip Seymour Hoffman, in one of his last performances, heads up a terrific ensemble cast for this offbeat drama adapted from a Pete Dexter novel.

"...be as focused as we might like, but Slattery’s outstanding gallery of actors make this an ensemble piece that..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rio 2

The animated blue macaw family takes a trip back to the Amazon.

"...find a whole flock of blue macaws that turn out to be Jewel’s long-lost family. Jewel, meeting both her..."

April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Divergent

Yet another dystopic YA book series gets translated to film – and one that resembles thebestseller: engrossing yet flimsy.

"...before blood,” which means that when Beatrice’s test turns out inconclusive – she’s tapped for three different factions, hence..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Free Birds

Animated film about the Turkey Liberation Front and the first Thanksgiving is ideologically cute, but unremarkable.

"...of levels, appealing to the broadest of audiences, usually working in different ways for different age groups. Free Birds..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

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