Austin Author Chandler Baker Talks About Creating a Novel for the #MeToo Movement

Writer of Whisper Network offers a healthy dose of righteous indignation

"...Whisper Network feels like a beach read for the #MeToo movement. Its complex narrative has garnered other attention: Whisper..."

July 26, 2019 Arts Feature by M. Brianna Stallings

Complicity And #MeToo in The Assistant

Kitty Green unravels systems that enable the Weinsteins of the world

"...office scutwork, she quickly realizes that this is a #MeToo nightmare, and even if she's not a direct victim..."

Feb. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

#MeToo, Time's Up Panels Lead SXSW Speaker List

Conference speaker list also adds Sanders, Schwarzenegger

"...additional attendees and speakers includes panels dedicated to the #MeToo and Time's Up movement reshaping the larger world, as..."

Feb. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A #MeToo Measure for Measure?

Austin Shakespeare gives a peek at a modern Measure Saturday

Dec. 6, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Assistant

The film industry’s quiet complicity in #MeToo crimes placed in stark context

"...The #MeToo era has unleashed a tsunami of long-suppressed anger, voiced..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bombshell

Finding sympathy in Fox’s #MeToo moment by ignoring everything else about Fox

"...Ailes and some of the first stirrings of the #MeToo movement – is the subject of the double-entendre’d Bombshell...."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Countdown

It's like Ring, but with an app instead of a ghost in a well

"...that land with a thud – including an awkward #MeToo narrative and a reoccurring flashback to childhood trauma –..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

On the Basis of Sex

RBG biopic focuses on a single case, but blurs the details

"...scriptwriter Daniel Stiepleman is keenly aware of the current #MeToo climate. As Ruth (Jones) is practicing for the courtroom,..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

My Obsession: Norma Jean & Marilyn

How HBO’s Monroe biopic highlighted the need for #MeToo

"...most of which look very different now in the #MeToo era, for better or worse. While these TV movies..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Screens Column by Britt Hayes

Assassination Nation

Dark satire lets social media tear us apart

"...Homophobia, jock culture, body image, #metoo, noods, hacking, the corrosive nature of social media, online..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Subverting Expectations at Fantastic Fest With Ladyworld

Female-fronted film prepares for a #MeToo backlash

"...filmmaker. Ladyworld sounds like the perfect movie for the #MeToo era, and yet writer/director Amanda Kramer is ready for..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Damsel

Austin's Zellner brothers head out to demolish myths of the Old West with Robert Pattinson

"...to make a Western genre film appropriate for the #MeToo era’s audience. As we all know, many cowboy films..."

June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Revenge

Bloody vengeance fit for the #MeToo era.

"...more opportune time, either. It’s the horror film our #MeToo vs. entitled-white-male-“grab ‘em by the pussy” and/or Golden State..."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tyler Perry's Acrimony

Tyler Perry takes on the "woman scorned" trope.

"...the villain. It made me wonder, in light of #MeToo: When women tell their stories, aren’t we supposed to..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Half Magic

Heather Graham turns director in empowerment comedy

"...boyfriends, and bad bosses in the age of the #MeToo zeitgeist, but it does little more than nibble on..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Shana Feste Says Run Sweetheart Run

The Austin filmmaker on her #MeToo thriller with a twist

"...might be surprised that she's the writer/director of twisted #MeToo horror Run Sweetheart Run. But it's less of a..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panel: Christiane Amanpour on Sex & Love Around the World

From covering international politics to female sexuality worldwide

"...editor Kara Swisher, Amanpour discussed female sexuality internationally, the #MeToo movement, the state of the media, and current political..."

March 10, 2018 SXSW Post by Acacia Coronado

The Luv Doc: A Hard “No”

It's not uncommon to have awkward, shitty dates

"...irresponsible witch hunt or a valuable addition to the #metoo discourse?..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

Women Empowered: Five SXSW Panel Picks

"...Between the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of female candidates this election..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Courage Moves in Ballet Austin's Exit Wounds

For his new dance, choreographer Stephen Mills turned to moments of inspiration in his own life

"...Eighties. The people speaking out against abuse are the #MeToo movement. They are part of his life and points..."

April 6, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ending the Boys' Club of Online Film Culture

Female industry professionals on power in parity, equality in cinema at SXSW Interactive

"...mirror up to itself, exploding in October when the #MeToo movement started to form, and emphasized later as Time's..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

A Broken Trust at the Alamo Drafthouse

After executive mismanagement of sexual harassment accusations, the movie chain reconsiders what it means to do the right thing

"...Austin-based anti-sexual- and domestic-violence nonprofit SAFE, said, "Just saying #MeToo is powerful ... but now we've got to move..."

March 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Royal Hotel

Disturbing trip to the sexist outback is cut short by a simplistic ending

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

God Is a Bullet

Merciless and bleak Satanic abduction drama is Mandy on crank

"...remove from the actor and director's last collaboration, 2014 pre-#MeToo revenge rom-com The Other Woman, in which Coster-Waldau played..."

June 23, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Grabbers

Men are not at all civil

"...of life experience hasn't yet caught wind of the #MeToo movement? I mean, Jesus, even Joe Rogan knows about..."

April 14, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

She Said

The journalistic investigation of Harvey Weinstein gets the rage but not the tension

"...industry – and in the process helped launch the #MeToo movement...."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Watcher

Stalker thriller is coldly gorgeous and creepily enthralling

"...to regard Watcher as part of the procession of post-#MeToo gaslighting thrillers, but that’s not quite what’s at play..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Too Late

Standup comedy can be murder in this stage-set satire

June 25, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin’s Sexual Assault Controversies Roil the District Attorney’s Race

Margaret Moore's controversial handling of rape cases brings opponents to the race

"...Weinstein's crimes broke in October 2017, kicking off the #MeToo movement. A year later, many watched in horror as..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

UT Theatre & Dance's 12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)

In a work more poetry than story, playwright Caridad Svich has drowned Ophelia resurface, freed from Hamlet's shadow

"...worldwide are seeking a reckoning of their power via #MeToo and other movements. Under Jess Shoemaker's direction, the show..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

1   2   3   4     NEXT ›    4 »