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She's Out of My League
An average guy finds the woman of his dreams, but his insecurities undermine the relationship.
"...forgettable comedy starring Baruchel (the likable lead from TV cult fave Undeclared). He plays Kirk, an undermuscled air-safety employee..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
The blurbing of SXSW
"...the musical offshoot of the Source Family, the psychedelic cult formed by Father Yod in the Hollywood Hills and..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Point Austin: We're All Flakes Here
It's not the sideshow candidates who should worry Texas voters
"...a Texas-sized ego-gratification campaign. Since we have an increasingly cargo-cult culture, with everyone hoping for the big payoff, it..."

Feb. 19, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Friggin' Genius
SXSW Film announces feature film lineup
"...vs. George Lucas Director: Alexandre O. Philippe A no-holds-barred cultural examination of the conflicted dynamic between George Lucas and..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

There Will Be Blood
... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week
"...Musical, a show that takes Sam Raimi's already over-the-top cult horror films to yet more outrageous heights of comic..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Extract
Mike Judge, the writer/director of Office Space, mines the workplace for more satiric comedy.
"...theatrical run of Office Space (which grew into a cult favorite only after its release on home video) and..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Off the Record
Jesse Dayton walks with a Zombie, while T Bird & the Breaks spice things up for the annual Hot Sauce Festival
"...hangers in it kept rattling." Named for the 1962 cult film, Captain Clegg stirs an original witches' brew that..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Imagine That
Eddie Murphy has made an agreeable, family-friendly, kid-centric film without – lo and behold – a single fart joke.
"...Wiseau, the Bizarro World, actor-writer-director hyphenate behind the disastrous cult movie The Room? Like Spidey's nemesis, the Sandman, Church..."

June 12, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: R.I.P.
Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton
"...generation of Texas talents who forever changed the state's culture by eliminating the imitative and reclaiming the unique...."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade
'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake
"...I had ever seen the quasi-legendary Kid Blue, a cult film still in search of its cult, starring Dennis..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced
What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!
"...Conquers Tokyo Director: Jessica Oreck Untangling the web of cultural and historical ties underlying Japan’s deep fascination with insects…..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye
Inauguration Day might not count officially as a national holiday, but it certainly feels like a brand-new day
"...world can catch up. Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi). The cult favorite returns for its swan song in 10 final..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10
An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008
"...reviews on movies that are perfect candidates to be cult movies but which are not really considered as such:..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Will 'Safe-P' and TDCJ Be Held Accountable?
Legislative committee will hear testimony on a controversial substance abuse treatment program
"...responses thus far, the inmates may indeed find it difficult to convince the Legislature that the abuses they have..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Outer Limits
Outer Limits
"...Cult of Color, the latest Graham Reynolds-scored trip with the..."

May 30, 2008 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

512 + 1
Non-native filmmaker Kevin Ford got here as fast as he could
"...up with this Austin place? It sounded like a cult, right? The cult of Austin. And being from California,..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Ballet Austin: Save the last dance for me
Four of the company's most gifted dancers are taking their leaves after this season's finale
"...of, Stein would have said Betto, the villain in Cult of Color: Call to Color. But now that he..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Warped Tour
Tim and Eric of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! perfect the anti-joke
"...a chain-mall hell called Jefferton. The show attracted a cult following, which was then treated last year to the..."

April 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

Fuse Box by Day
Schedule
"...Cult of Color: Call to Color String Quintet..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sex and Death 101
This serial-killer comedy, which screened during Fantastic Fest, is a self-indulgent, snarky, scattershot affair.
"...based on one of Daniel Waters’ scripts. Following the cult success of his black comedy Heathers in 1989, the..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...years or so, is bizarre enough to excite the cult director's fans: A Michael Jackson and a Marilyn Monroe..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

One Missed Call
This American horror remake of Takashi Miike's eponymous Japanese original is a dud.
"...For every solid attempt to translate the maddeningly intricate cultural psychoses of Asian cult horror into boffo American box..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Alice in Wonderland': Drawn down the rabbit hole again
The universal appeal of Lewis Carroll's story inspires 45 local artists in a new group show
"...tend to be pretty hardcore. There's a pretty big cult. I'm not really qualified to be in the cult,..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Holly
Ron Livingston plays a lost soul in Cambodia who rescues a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, who has been sold as a prostitute by her parents.
"...time I saw him in Swingers right through his cult coronation in Office Space and his bout with drunken..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

P2
Horror overtakes a woman on level P2 of a parking garage, and the film's suspense plays on our collective unease with being alone, at night, surrounded by concrete and rebar.
"...Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, the team behind the cult French slasher film High Tension, may have here designed..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Southland Tales
Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.
"...own hype. Call it the Curse of the First-Time Cult Success Given the Keys to the Kingdom, or Too..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Data Riches
A data nerd's dream come true, the Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project's latest report is out
"...the local effort, admits Walker, "is as much a cult phenomenon as anything." Organizations hip to the data cult..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview
"...of songs, collected on brand-new EP Keep It Light (Cult Hero). The Austin quintet retains the intensity embedded in..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Music Feature

Weirdsville
Weirdsville accomplishes something that is rare for Canadian-made comedies: It's actually funny.
"...that Weirdsville reminds me of even more is the cult gem Safe Men. Perhaps that's because, to some extent,..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Descent Into the Maelstrom
Radio Birdman surfs out of Edgar Allan Poe's maelström a quarter-century later
"...brawl "1970" ("radio birdman up above") and Blue Öyster Cult's "Dominance and Submission" ("radios appear") hops punk rock's big,..."

June 22, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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