Inbetween Girl
Funny, nuanced look at life as a Texas teen
Selome Hailu
1-30 of 46 entries
Movie Review, May 6, 2022
Language Lessons
Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass test the online connections formed in lockdown
Movie Review, Sept. 10, 2021
Brandy and Ryan Fons, Publicists, Fons PR
Then: "Well, what do you want to do? What are your goals now?"
Now: "We are just so happy we're still around."
Now: "We are just so happy we're still around."
Screens, July 8, 2021
Zola
Incisive drama explores the story behind the infamous tweetstorm
Movie Review, July 2, 2021
Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
A joyous historical document of the Harlem Cultural Festival
Movie Review, July 2, 2021
Inbetween Girl Comes Home for the Austin Asian American Film Festival
Austin-Made dramedy brings teenage dreams and Sorkin rhythms to the drive-in
Screens, June 3, 2021
The Get Together
Austin party movie is one perfect night in the velvet rut
Movie Review, May 14, 2021
Sparxs Studio Is Turning Cinema Into a Single Mom's Game
Founder and CEO Samenta Bruington doesn’t take no for an answer
Screens, April 29, 2021
Shatara Michelle Ford Wants to Make You Uncomfortable
The Test Pattern writer/director explains how microaggressions from white Austinites taught them how to write about trauma
Screens, April 15, 2021
2021 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action
Great performances bolster this year's Academy nominees
Movie Review, April 2, 2021
SXSW Interview: Bradley Grant Smith’s “Male Gaze Gazes on the Male Gaze” in Our Father
Dick Wolf, Chicago, and the politics of writing female leads
Screens, March 26, 2021
SXSW Interview: Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina are Fine (Thanks For Asking)
How a can-do attitude enabled a rapid pandemic production
Screens, March 25, 2021
SXSW Interview: Inbetween Girl Director Mei Makino
Down with Sixteen Candles says the Visions award-winner
Screens, March 25, 2021
SXSW Film Review: Inbetween Girl
Texas-set coming-of-age drama is witty, wonderful, and timely
Screens, March 19, 2021
SXSW Film Review: Language Lessons
Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass excel in this Zoom drama
Screens, March 18, 2021
SXSW Film Review: Executive Order
Brazilian speculative drama shows racism transcends borders
Screens, March 16, 2021
Mandabi
Seminal Senegalese social satire from the father of African film, remastered
Movie Review, March 5, 2021
17 Blocks
Incredible home-footage documentary blows shows that no one is voiceless
Movie Review, Feb. 26, 2021
Test Pattern
Issues of race and rape intersect in this startling Austin drama
Movie Review, Feb. 19, 2021
Sundance Review: Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Questlove's joyous celebration of the Harlem Cultural Festival
Screens, Feb. 14, 2021
Sundance Review: Cusp
Texas documentary raises and struggles with questions of consent
Screens, Feb. 14, 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah
The revolutionary power of Fred Hampton reignited in this powerful story
Movie Review, Feb. 12, 2021
Two of Us
Old loves and senility craft a complex tale of coming out late in life
Movie Review, Feb. 5, 2021
Malcolm & Marie
Relationship two-hander about Black Hollywood is more flash than answers
Movie Review, Jan. 29, 2021
Acasă, My Home
Extreme gentrification on the outskirts of Bucharest
Movie Review, Jan. 22, 2021
Rock Camp: The Movie
Music fans seek glam without the grit and grind as they play with stadium-fillers
Movie Review, Jan. 15, 2021
One Night in Miami ...
Regina King’s directorial debut floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee
Movie Review, Jan. 8, 2021
Sister of the Groom
Stilted rom-com is clueless about what to do with its star
Movie Review, Dec. 18, 2020
18 to Party
Gen X coming-of-ager is an unfocused but endearing debut
Movie Review, Nov. 6, 2020
An Easy Girl
French coming-of-age drama doesn't get what it means to be young
