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The turbulent but creative connection between theatre legend Sam Shepard and writer and collector Johnny Dark is explored in this documentary. The film also features the work of a couple of Austin film mavericks: editor Sandra Adair and musician Graham Reynolds.

Sometimes it might be best to let sleeping vampires lie.

Late producer set the mood for one of music’s great summits

Venerable Hill Country bluesman digs into Cherry Springs

Austin Film Critics Association names P.T. Anderson Best Director

Reviewing our reviews of the 8 Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaborations

On cyberpunk

The Austin Pub Crawl

Johnny Torrez was one of the first Austin comics to work on a professional level, and every local comic who ever made a living in the business credits the self-proclaimed "Commissioner of Comedy" as an early influence and inspiration. On Valentine's Day, the Commissioner died. Here's how he is remembered.

The material legacy of playwright Sam Shepard calls Central Texas home

The masterful storyteller Jim Sheridan, along with a wonderful cast, tell the story of a family whom you'll never forget.

The late writer-actor left lots of himself in Central Texas

Johnny Depp plays the notorious South Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger

Burton and Depp's screen version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book is truer to the source material and generally splendid, artful, and often sinister, yet it doesn't completely displace the earlier screen version.

Not even Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and the Venice setting can rescue this would-be thriller from its slack storytelling.

Even the powerful combination of Johnny Depp and John Turturro can't save this Stephen King film adapatation.

Johnny Depp keeps it low-key in this bleak envirodrama

Johnny Rodriguez on HighTone

Dracula and Fur Tempt Females With the Dark Side

Johnny Toxic

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

One light version, one dark

Ambitious, brutish, and ruthlessly unromantic, this feminist reworking of the fairy tale has us under its spell.

As cautionary tales go, this is an entertaining take on finding your muse through chemical means.

Tim Burton's adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim classic shows just how dull violent retribution can be when it's all someone ever talks (or, in this case, sings) about.

Johnny Depp runs away with the show in this murkily filmed picture, cackling all the while and defiling beauty in all its forms as the exceedingly decadent Earl of Rochester.