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On the benefits she’s eligible to receive from the government, one veteran says, “There’s nothing for me, and it's strictly because of my gender.” The fastest growing group of homeless people in America, more than 55,000 female veterans are disproportionately affected, and facing it largely unsupported by the country they risked their lives to defend.

1:35PM Tue. Mar. 14, 2017, Jessi Cape Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Ramblin' Freak

Twenty minutes into Ramblin’ Freak, I was ready to write off the documentary – Parker Smith’s feature-length debut after directing videos for local bands in Austin – as a lo-fi narcissist’s meditation on white privilege and cinematic obsession. Then, out of left field, came the most hypnotic, disturbing montage from any film I’ve seen yet at the Festival.

1:00PM Tue. Mar. 14, 2017, Sean L. Malin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Dara Ju

In the Nigerian Yoruba language, “dara ju” means “better.” This film from writer/director Anthony Onah is a deeply personal story of the immigrant experience, fraught with all the dangers that ambition brings.

9:30PM Mon. Mar. 13, 2017, Dan Gentile Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Peach Pit, Briston Maroney, Bnny

Moody Amphitheater

Showgirls
at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

Happy Together + God’s Own Country at Paramount Theatre

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

SXSW Panel: Gareth Edwards Keynote

The non-geek world may recognize Brit director Gareth Edwards as the man who helmed the second-best Star Wars movie ever made – George Lucas’ original film being the obvious first – but there was a time when he wondered if he was wasting his life on his childhood dream of being a film director.

9:02PM Mon. Mar. 13, 2017, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

There is nothing visually notable or narratively inspired in The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, but those who see the nonfiction feature in theatres are unlikely to notice this, as this love letter to the American author is pre-sold to Maupin’s international fan base.

4:30PM Mon. Mar. 13, 2017, Sean L. Malin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Walk With Me

With “unprecedented access” (their term) to celebrity mindfulness master Thich Nhat Hanh and his Plum Village retreat in rural France, Max Pugh and Marc J. Francis turned three years of footage into a ruminative poem as lyrically shot and edited as its subject’s own writing.

3:56PM Mon. Mar. 13, 2017, Sean L. Malin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Panel: You Are Not Anonymous: The Myth of Online Privacy

Several friends have been telling me it’s a good idea to get hooked up with a VPN, a virtual private network, so as to keep my personal data secret and unsold online, unlike what typically happens in the wide-open web. And, you know, those friends certainly meant well. But they were wrong.

2:40PM Mon. Mar. 13, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Bill Nye: Science Guy

One more dismal judgment of our benighted times is that a genial TV popularizer of the scientific method has in recent years become also an embattled defender of basic human knowledge. Bill Nye defies our public ignorance.

2:11PM Mon. Mar. 13, 2017, Michael King Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Porto

There is a shadow and a tragedy hanging over Porto. The tragic early death of Anton Yelchin adds poignancy to an already heartbreaking tale of tragic love, while re-enforcing that he was on the cusp of being one of the most extraordinary actors of his generation.

11:40AM Mon. Mar. 13, 2017, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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