Mastodon's 'Blood Mountain' Flows Into Austin

Coming down the mountain with Mastodon

"...to write a follow-up to Leviathan and about the writing process in general? Troy Sanders: It’s just the next..."

March 14, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Miller's Girl

A questionable relationship develops between a creative writing teacher and his teenaged student.

"...Dagmara Dominczyk. A questionable relationship develops between a creative writing teacher (Freeman) and his teenaged student (Wednesday's Ortega)...."

Jan. 26, 2024 Movie Review

The Austin Songwriters Group Symposium Returns With Country Hitmakers

Including Russell Sutton, who got his start at the gathering

"...Russell Sutton was working a job at Dell and writing songs on the side. The Austin native had grown..."

Jan. 7, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Rad

Hal Needham's BMX action flick restored

"...film’s raison d'être. And if the actors or the writing or literally any other aspect of the film were..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Austin Playhouse's Tiny Beautiful Things

There's excellent work in Austin Playhouse's production about Cheryl Strayed writing an advice column, but where's the humility?

"...construct Sugar's character with dimensions beyond what her own writing reveals. Rather, it's a director's choice to make Sugar..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Alvin Schwartz's beloved nightmares come to the screen

"...old tome in question turns out to be a self-writing storybook of horrors, and one that quickly turns out..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hail Satan?

The Satanic Temple’s idiosyncratic quest to remind America about freedom of religion

"...in American politics: It was item one in the writing of the U.S. Constitution. So while the accommodationists and..."

May 3, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hacking Whiskey at Treaty Oak Distillery

What’s a brief moment of Brooklyn in a Hill Country paradise?

"...He writes a whole bunch about whiskey, and it’s writing that, if you like whiskey at all, you should..."

Feb. 14, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Venom

Spider-Man's nemesis gets a spin-off without web-head

"...us, but Venom is such a deluge of bad writing that it’s hard to see anything else. Brock is..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Wife

Glenn Close is icily brilliant as a woman who refuses to be diminished

"...occasional infidelities and her having to sideline her own writing ambitions to support him. The bulk of the film..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Super Troopers 2

Vermont's finest return, and this time they're Canadian.

"...more yawns than laughs. Even though the Broken Lizard writing team hurls roughly a thousand gags at the screen,..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Baja

Kerouac-loving road trip stalls out fast.

"...like reading a short story by that insufferable creative writing student who so obviously worships Jack Kerouac. Imitation is..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Ismael's Ghosts

French drama follows the artist split between two women.

"...without them. John Ford directing John Wayne, Martin Scorsese writing roles for Robert De Niro (er, Leonardo DiCaprio); Wong..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Carry Illinois Queers Up Free Week

Local indie-pop band joins the Nine Mile Records showcase

"...Mile Records showcase tonight. And while Lehman has been writing songs for over 10 years now, she hasn’t always..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

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..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Amanda & Jack Go Glamping

A couple try to reignite their marriage

"...are on the verge of divorce now that Jack’s writing career is on the rocks and the magic has..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Rebel in the Rye

The early life of J.D. Salinger is explored

"...a dinner table, sullen and mechanical, about Jerry’s brilliant writing. To wit: “Oh it’s great but we must change..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

I Do ... Until I Don't

Marriage (comedies) ain't easy

"...of those tropes. But it’s not. Despite some clever writing (Widespread Panic jokes never go out of style), a..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Wind River

Crime and punishment on a Wyoming reservation

"...is in the spotlight for directing, in addition to writing, Wind River, a police procedural set on an Indian..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Fire

A delirious shoot'em-up comedy

"...trigger-fingered Harry. Wheatley, who co-scripted with his spouse and writing partner Amy Jump, sustains a level of comic violence..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Regional Office Is Under Attack!

This adventure tale pulls elements from many corners of pop culture, but Manuel Gonzales’ writing chops make it wholly his own

"...his collection The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, Gonzales' writing chops keep this from becoming merely a pastiche of..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Arts Review by Adrienne Martini

Slash

A sweet coming-of-age film set in the world of fan fiction

"...who spends his days holed up in his bedroom writing erotic fan fiction. For those who’ve never heard of..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ouija: Origin of Evil

This horror sequel is vastly superior to its cheesy precursor

"...enough, her eyes roll back white, she begins automatically writing in Polish, and the dark secrets of their sunny,..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Birth of a Nation

Controversial slave uprising epic finally hits theatres

"...in the film as Nat Turner, in addition to writing the screenplay (based on a story he developed with..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Knight of Cups

Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups is a vessel half-empty

"...both his life and the stalled script he is writing. Verbally, the film conveys itself mostly in murmured voiceovers;..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Uncovering Leah Lax

Author Leah Lax on coming out of the closet and religion

"...weird thing,” says author Leah Lax as she recalls writing her memoir, Uncovered. Lax, the Dallas-born writer now in..."

Feb. 16, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)

Did anyone really ask for a third helping of this stomach-turning provocation?

"...he’s a narcissist nonpareil working down the clock. Bad writing, shoddy effects work, and Laser’s nonstop shouting of every..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Vanish

Bryan Bockbrader takes the sealed-bottle drama on the road

"...what Bryan Bockbrader was asking himself when he started writing Vanish...."

Feb. 21, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Gambler

Mark Wahlberg has one of his juiciest roles ever as a creative-writing professor by day and a compulsive gambler by night.

"...ever, is Jim Bennett, a failed novelist and collegiate creative-writing professor by day and a compulsive gambler by night...."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Best of Chris Isaak

Stylish, Orbison-esque crooner hits the Moody

"...“I’m writing on a moving bus and it’s hitting every pothole!”..."

Sept. 4, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

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