
Richard Whittaker
Culture Editor at The Austin Chronicle
Award-winning journalist and reviewer. Rotten Tomatoes critic. Vice-president, Austin Film Critics Association. Yes, I married above me.
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6 days ago |
austinchronicle.com | Richard Whittaker
The Hills are alive! King of the Hill is back for season 14, and the ATX TV Festival got a first look Friday night Hank's back and he's mad as hell. So sayeth Mike Judge in the inimitable tones of Hank Hill, pater familias of the Hill family and heart of the unofficial state TV show of Texas, King of the Hill. With those words, Judge closed out the first look at Friday's sneak preview of season 14 of the newly-resurrected show at the ATX TV Festival.
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1 week ago |
austinchronicle.com | Richard Whittaker
2025, R, 91 min. Directed by John Maclean. Starring Kōki, Takehiro Hira, Tim Roth, Jack Lowden, Nathan Malone, Jamie Michie, Joanne Whalley, Bryan Michael Mills. REVIEWED By Richard Whittaker, Fri., May 30, 2025 The world has always been smaller than people believe. The Vikings traded with the Middle Eastern Sasanian empire. By the 15th century, Ethiopia had permanent embassies across Europe.
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1 week ago |
austinchronicle.com | Richard Whittaker
2025, PG-13, 94 min. Directed by Jonathan Entwistle. Starring Ben Wang, Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen, Aramis Knight, Wyatt Oleff.
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1 week ago |
austinchronicle.com | Richard Whittaker
There’s no dignity in death. When Andy (Barratt) walks into the bathroom to find his dad, naked, seeping blood, with frothy sputum around his mouth, the sight is both grotesque and pathetic. He sees it as a mercy that his stepsister Piper (Wong) will never see it because she can never see it. His sister is visually impaired, and he describes the world to her, just with some of the rough edges smoothed down. After all, what harm can a few white lies do? Well, seemingly unlock the gates of Hell.
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1 week ago |
austinchronicle.com | Richard Whittaker
BFFs Mark Duplass (left) and Barret O'Brien explore the limits of modern male friendship in their independent TV show The Long Long Night, available now through Kinema and featured at this weekend's ATX TV Festival A black-and-white comedy series about two men failing to commit suicide? The Long Long Night isn’t exactly the next How I Met Your Mother. “Where is the money truck?” laughed star and series co-creator Mark Duplass.
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