Along the longest stretch of international borderland in one state exists the Rio Grande Valley, where the convergence of Spanish guitar, German accordion and African-American and Anglo-European rhythms gave birth to innovative and eclectic music …
Actor/writer/comedian/extremely funny Pakistani man Kumail Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon held a press event at Franklin Barbecue the other day. They do not hesitate when asked how the food was.
“SO GREAT!” Gordon almost …
Some people see “The Honor Farm” as a psychedelic metamorphosis. Others see it as a prom nightmare. Some see it as a sweet horror movie. But Austin writer/director Karen Skloss says she sees it as …
The thumping sounds of two hearts beating co-mingle, indistinguishable from one another, as two prisoners smother a lavalier microphone in their tight embrace. This is The Work. And the visceral scene is also the essence of …
South by Southwest screens hundreds of films. Some of them fit right in with our Keep Austin Weird aesthetic.
“Lemon”: Critic Joe Gross calls this film “an unnerving and deeply weird portrait of the artist as …
Some facts: “Lemon” stars Brett Gelman, was written by Gelman and his wife, Janicza Bravo, and was directed by the latter.
It poses one of the year’s most important cinematic questions — is Isaac Lachmann, the person …
Why would the New Zealand government, at the urging of the United States government, conduct a raid on the home of an accused internet pirate with a force normally reserved for someone like, say, Osama …
Eleanor Coppola and her husband, Francis Ford Coppola, were attending the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, and they were supposed to fly to Eastern Europe afterward, where he had business. But Eleanor Coppola had a …
Melissa Leo delivers a powerhouse performance as the Austin atheist leader Madalyn Murray O’Hair in director Tommy O’Haver’s “The Most Hated Woman in America.”
As O’Hair, Leo is foul-mouthed, in your face, unapologetic and downright nasty …
Some were shot here. Some come from filmmakers who live here. And one is set in the Austin music scene (though our critic begs to differ). These are some of the movies with ties to …
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