San Antonio Current (film coverage)

Editor Linda Matys O'Connell and her husband Geoff O'Connell, who had worked at alternative papers in Massachusetts and Phoenix, launched the San Antonio Current on April 3, 1986. San Antonio then had two dailies and no alternative weekly. The paper ran short of money within a year, and in 1989 the O'Connells sold it to Bob Walton of the Dallas Observer. It went biweekly in 1991 and kept covering local politics and the arts. Its 20th-anniversary year in 2006 included public movie nights.

The Current's film coverage today runs in its Movies & TV section. San Antonio critic Kiko Martinez, founder of CineSnob, is a contributing writer, and in May 2020 he used the section to survey eight Texas film podcasts. This research did not find a documented history of the paper's film critics or of its later ownership changes from sources other than Wikipedia.