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Getting Behind The Tender Bar With Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan
The challenges of authenticity (and George Clooney's acting class)
"...J.R. and Dorothy, you've got three levels: there's the script, there's the memoir, and then there are the real..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet
From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests
"...their post-Doctor Strange return to terror, they flipped the script and cast the Boyhood star as the Grabber, a..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Poupelle of Chimney Town
Charming enviro-metaphor anime appeals to the outsider kid in us all
"...subplot (plus, with a similar “look to the stars” script device to the lumpen Don’t Look Up, it’s definite..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

See for Me
Home invasion thriller smartly updates Wait Until Dark
"...it really weaves the lead character’s disability into the script, in a way that arguably wasn’t equaled in the..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Legend of La Llorona
The weeping woman has reason to cry in this flat supernatural horror
"...Candlewoods’ effort to save their kid. But when the script briefly Rambo-izes its corporeal mother, be prepared to guffaw..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Broken Spoke’s Terri White & More Featured on Queer Eye
Locally-filmed reality show picks three Austin music subjects
"...The season finale (“The Mis-Inspiration of Reggie Devore”) takes..."

Jan. 2, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Top 10 Most Read Film Reviews of 2021
Which films did you care most about as the pandemic rolled on?
"...the MCU. Yet that doesn’t explain how weak the script she co-wrote is, or why it’s so insufferably long,..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Street Corner Arts' Strange, But Perfect
World premiere is a delightful treatise on the stuff of which friends are made
"...allow the subtle, potentially plot-twisting red herrings in the script to be merely the playful devices employed by the..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Bee Cave Wines, Bee Cave Dines, Bee Cave Now Shows All the Signs of … Becoming a Worthy Destination Unto Itself?
The Sonesta's great for exploring this nearby escape-from-the-city
"...person who was guiding us wasn’t working from a script, she actually understood the sotol and the cocktails. She..."

Dec. 29, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The New Moneyball in National Champions
Ric Roman Waugh calculates the human cost of NCAA profits
"...him with a proposal. "He said, 'We had this script that we weren't going to show you because you..."

Dec. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Into the Valley: Alana Haim Bites Into Licorice Pizza
The musician-turned-actress makes the movie a family affair
"...and finally about two years ago I got the script sent to me. He sent it to me when..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spider-Man: No Way Home
The multiversal smackdown you’ve been waiting for!
"...The script from Homecoming and Far From Home writers Chris McKenna..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The King's Man
Spy comedy threequel is a king-sized disaster
"...Vaughn's script (although Karl Gajdusek is equally to blame) is a..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sing 2
Animated singing animals sequel is bear-able (geddit?)
"...one of the friends pitches this wild, never-in-a-million-years spec script they’ve written and Crystal loves it. He tells them..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

The Tragedy of Macbeth
Joel Coen's stark and silvery take on the Bard's revenger
"...buffed up to a much larger role in Coen's script, is a perfect mixture of distance and empathy, and..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Robert Rodriguez Opens The Book of Boba Fett
The Austin filmmaker takes the mask off Star Wars' enigmatic bounty hunter for new Disney+ show
"...comes to this merciless merc. "When I saw the script and saw Boba was in it, I didn't know..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Nightmare Alley
Guillermo del Toro goes into the dark of greedy souls in this noir remake
"...on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 controversial cult novel, the script by del Toro and Kim Morgan is exactingly constructed..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Lost Daughter
Olivia Colman is coiled and complex in this portrait of motherhood
"...Gyllenhaal's script cuts back on the novel's depiction of multiple generations..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Being the Ricardos
Miscasting (except for J.K. Simmons) derails this Lucille Ball biopic.
"...and The West Wing to Moneyball and his Oscar-winning script for The Social Network, there’s no doubt the man..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

West Side Story
Bernstein. Shakespeare. Sondheim. Spielberg. ’Nuff said!
"...her performance as Anita in the original film. The script by Tony Kushner, a frequent Spielberg collaborator (Munich, Lincoln),..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Faster Than Sound: Black Fret Ball Returns to the Stage With $250K for Austin Artists
The latest on two homegrown music nonprofits looking to expand
"...California trio Haim played a surprise concert last Saturday..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Hamilton's Resident Director Makes Bass the Room Where It Happens
Austinite Ashley Brooke Monroe leads the touring Broadway show back to the stage she loves
"...touring production of Hamilton. If her life was a script, you'd call that a callback. "It's pretty surreal," she..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Arts Events to Get You in That Holiday Spirit
Classics, classical music, ballet, and more
"...With an original script by Penfold Theatre Company's Nathan Jerkins, this holiday classic..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Other Worlds Review: Madelines
Brea Grant faces a multiplicity of herself to gory, funny effect
"...is the penchant for intriguing violence integral to her script for subversive rap-revenge psychodrama Lucky. But Madelines is lighter..."

Dec. 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Review: Red Snow
Vampire comedy takes a bite out of Twilight fans
"...This is arguably when Lynch's script has most snap and exceeds the superlow budget restrictions..."

Dec. 6, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Review: Minor Premise
Lo-fi sci-fi updates Jekyll and Hyde for modern psychology
"...for many of the more convoluted corners of the script to be delivered in lab-speak exposition. It's OK for..."

Dec. 6, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Refineries and Suitcase Pimps: Riding the Red Rocket With Sean Baker
The filmmaker talks about poverty porn and real porn
"...called me out a couple of times on the script. “That wouldn’t happen, He would not refer to himself..."

Dec. 5, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

House of Gucci
Ridley Scott is a bad fit for the tale of the fashion house's fall
"...that echoes the unengaging and episodic nature of the script, which suddenly terminates, like someone added a cuff to..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fueling the Algorithm and Finding Community: Music Creators Thrive on Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram
On discoverable platforms, Austin musicians experience encouragement, engagement, and unexpected viral moments
"...Right around the time he released the eventually sold..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Johannes Roberts Says Welcome to Raccoon City (Hope You Survive the Experience)
How the latest Resident Evil film goes back to basics
"...and dark RE film. "As we were developing the script, Capcom came full circle and released the reboot of..."

Nov. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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