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Five Recommended Arts Events This Weekend
Are you having fun yet, citizen?
"...mope around, ever-so-subtly demonstrating how bored and miserable you are? Because it’s a cheap way of getting someone to..."

June 1, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List
Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more
"...the most praised. And master storyteller Claire Messud will share some of the secrets of her absorbing New York..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Where to Watch Game of Thrones’ Season 7 Premiere in Austin
Local watch parties, plus GoT trivia nights and menu specials
"...Because incest, patricide, and Melisandre’s witchy ways are best enjoyed in the company of fellow Game of..."

July 12, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: Last Girl Standing
Austin horror goes beyond the slasher
"...influence, or the most unexpected. Producer Rachel Moody said, "We wanted to make a Short Term 12 version of..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters
Director Kevin Burke on one-sheets and screenprints
"...Movie About Movie Posters. "It was There Will be Blood by Olly Moss. I'd never seen a screenprint movie..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Stock Austin's The Addams Family
The company's young artists infuse the musical incarnation of those spooky, ooky Addamses with fresh blood by the buckets
"...We knew that they were creepy and kooky, mysterious and..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Page Two: Stories Without Words
Would I miss Israel for Israel? I worried.
"...Over the holidays we went to Athens for a few days and then..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Column by Louis Black

ACL Fest 2015 Friday Listings – Second Weekend
Blurbing the second Friday of ACL 2015
"...dual guitar attack, yet singer Cody Cannon and compadres are still best experienced in the flesh. – Jim Caligiuri..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Feature

Wes Craven, Philosopher of Terror
Remembering the horror innovator
"...This week, the film community lost one of its leading luminaries:..."

Sept. 5, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Supremacy
A timely and tragic depiction of intolerance and bigotry
"...The roots of hate are twisted and deep, and they are never easily separated,..."

April 25, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Fun: Some Like It Hot Cold & Dreary
Counterprogramming Gidget: 11 icy, downer movies
"...Sixties films were wild about sandy frolics starring Gidget, Elvis, Frankie and..."

May 19, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Possessed by Paul James at Chicago’s Moonrunners Fest
ATX folker proves a reaffirming antidote to shocking violence
"...Vermillion and I arrived at Reggies for Moonrunners Fest. We’d be playing the next night, but our tour’s sole..."

April 28, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Red River
Hit-and-run leaves two dead
"...silent even. I rushed to the scene, taped off between Ninth and 11th, and listened as Austin Police Chief..."

March 14, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW 2013 Round Two: More Bands Announced
Big year for Bogota bands with a heavy playlist from Colombia
"...ticking before Downtown becomes one single party, South by Southwest just announced its second round of musical acts for..."

Dec. 5, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

The Master
Philip S. Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix act out the internal (and eternal) war between the analytical and implusive that is the principal inquiry of P.T. Anderson's film.
"...Devil or the Lord – but Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest film tenders a third: Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), a writer..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Evidence Missing in Skinner Case
Key evidence missing and no one knows why
"...Just two weeks after the state announced it would drop its opposition..."

June 13, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Headlines
"...by a comfortable margin on election night – a welcome piece of good news for Travis County progressives. See..."

Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature

Women Without Men
Although this film set in 1953 Iran is visually compelling, its story about four different women is slight and emblematic.
"...and the characters seem more like figurative representations than flesh-and-blood subjects. Munis (Tolouei) is an unmarried 30-year-old woman who..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
Handicapping SXSW 09 Wednesday night showcasers
"...WEDNESDAY PICKS..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

Black Christmas
Although this horror remake isn't as suspenseful or emotionally draining as its influential 1974 predecessor, the film almost makes up for that with its overriding weirdness.
"...that director Morgan and his producing partner James Wong were tackling a remake of Bob Clark's much-loved 1974 sorority-house..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pork Chop Wars: Big Enough to Tell the Story
With her new 'performance novel,' Laurie Carlos can finally tell her family's story with the epic, operatic form it deserves
"...and creative collaborator on local projects (Frontera's con flama, blood pudding, Alaskan Heat Blue Dot). Now, she's back, working..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Biopic of the only person to have ever won golf's grand slam.
"...Herrington. Starring: Jim Caviezel, Claire Forlani, Jeremy Northam, Malcolm McDowell, Connie Ray, Brett Rice and Aidan Quinn. If, like..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'There's Going to Be Some Changes'
The latest Mala Sangre testimony dismantles the APD party line
"...the now-infamous, mid-Nineties drug investigation code-named Mala Sangre ("Bad Blood"). White's is the third such suit filed in the..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Biker Boyz
"...Luke, Orlando Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Lisa Bonet, Brendan Fehr, Larenz Tate, Meagan Good, Vanessa Bell Calloway and Kid Rock...."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Denying Marisol
Third Place
"...off the jars of her hair, bent it in wells of her pockets...."

Jan. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Nancy Moser

Shadow of the Vampire
"...Ronan Vibert, Aden Gillett, Eddie Izzard, Catherine Mccormack, Cary Elwes, Udo Kier, Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich. F.W. Murnau's..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gambler
"...Makk. Starring: Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Luise Rainer, Dominic West, Polly Walker, William Houston and Thom Jansen. The life..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wyatt Earp
"...Madsen, Joanna Going, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Jobeth Williams, Mare Winningham, Catherine O'Hara and Isabella Rossellini. Wyatt Earp wasn't..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Killing Nazis the Finnish Way: Jalmari Helander on Hyperviolent Action-Comedy Sisu
How mud and sand made for a gritty World War II romp
"...In Jalmari Helander's office, there are two film posters. One is for Rare Exports, his..."

April 25, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Contractor
Mercenary drama fails its mission of being good
"...But when his first mission takes a sudden and bloody turn for the worse, James soon realizes that dollars..."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

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