Immaculate

Sydney Sweeney excels in just-OK nun horror

"...The imagery of Roman Catholicism is ripe with the melancholy..."

March 22, 2024 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

SXSW Film Review: Immaculate

Nun horror delivers decent scares, but gets in its own way

"...The imagery of Roman Catholicism is ripe with the melancholy..."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Dev Patel Swings Into South by Southwest With Monkey Man World Premiere

Fest gets new docs on Stormy Daniels, Alex Jones, and Jon Bon Jovi

"...TV Festival schedule is packed with big releases like The Fall Guy and Road House, but now it's added..."

Feb. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Different Stages’ The Art of Martyrdom (A Comedy)

For one of the season's best comedies, get thee to a nunnery

"...The folks at New Play Exchange, a digital resource that..."

June 30, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Consecration

Faith and fear as a woman investigates her priestly brother's death

"...in this tale of a woman seeking answers for the bizarre death of her priestly brother in a convent...."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Unsheathe your broad sword and unpack your boom stick. South..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Federal District Court Rules Employers Can Refuse to Purchase Health Insurance That Covers PrEP

When lifesaving medicines are against someone’s religion

"...In the post-Dobbs climate of right-wing backlash to what should be..."

Sept. 23, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Agnes

Sleazy, sexy, bawdy and surprising look at religion, lust, and power

"...I will admit, the fact that Oklahoma oddball Mickey Reece had recently become..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Benedetta

Paul Verhoeven gets historical for his new take on nunsploitation

"...a prerecorded intro prior to his film playing during the coveted Fantastic Fest secret screening spot: Benedetta is based..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Review: Agnes

Mickey Reece's church drama has a surprising, dark heart

"...I will admit, the fact that Oklahoma oddball Mickey Reece had recently become..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Outside Story

After a year trapped inside, a welcome comedic reminder of life in fresh air

"...comic and mildly melancholy slice of “a day in the life” fun follows an introverted film editor forced by..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Passion inflamed in this study of women repressed and resurgent

"...a Lady on Fire, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma gives the Gothic romance a feminist workout. Set in the late..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trey Edward Shults Returns for Austin Film Festival

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Blair Witch retrospective

"...War crimes, family dramas, and evil in the woods: Austin Film Festival has announced a second wave..."

Sept. 24, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Nun

The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania

"...First off: The Nun is quite likely the best entry in the..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Cracking Open The Devil's Doorway

Horror director Aislinn Clarke on Ireland's dirty secret

"...personal nightmares. For Aislinn Clarke, director and co-writer of The Devil's Doorway, her inspiration was a dark chapter in..."

July 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A’lante Flamenco’s Juana: First (I) Dream

The dramas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz were perfectly expressed through the language of flamenco

"...was a furious, delirious beginning: Olivia Chacón's heels hammering the floor, a long white skirt whipping around her calves,..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Novitiate

An original take on a crisis of faith

"...Director Margaret Betts’ superb debut feature arrives in theatres at perhaps just the right moment. At a time..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paper Chairs’ Catalina de Erauso

Elizabeth Doss’ latest plays with history in a way that serves its feminist hero, and it’s also a comedy that knows its stuff

"...Catalina de Erauso is somebody who's slipped off the pages of most surveys of European history, but she's..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Little Hours

Foul-mouthed nuns can't save this comedy

"...cinematic laughs, and that holds true in Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours, which is loosely based on a story..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...The worst part about summer is everyone demanding that you..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...The wintry-hued The Innocents imagines the unimaginable: the rape and..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Protextor

"...makes some of Austin's more thoughtful, slightly off-kilter alt-rap. The Iowa native has mastered his version of the singsong..."

June 3, 2016 Music Review by Kahron Spearman

Day Trips: Carmelite Monastery, Stanton

Adobe building was part of German colony that brought Catholicism and education to West Texas

"...The Carmelite Monastery in Stanton still dominates the town from..."

May 27, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Reeling in the Hill Country

Escape from the city with the Hill Country Film Festival

"...It's the height of spring in Central Texas, the pastoral Hill..."

April 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Tucker Whatley

Austin Diocese Implicated in Child Abuse Suit

John Doe claims he was victim of sexual abuse in the Seventies

"...On March 10, Father Milton Eggerling became the seventh Austin-based priest to be..."

April 1, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Film Review: Little Sister

Film is a deft mix of humor and melancholy

"...faith made blasphemous with toxic humor, Little Sister is the new film from director Zach Clark...."

March 13, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

The Letters

Mother Teresa biopic delivers no miracles

"...Remember those religious biopics the major Hollywood studios churned out for the faithful back..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

First Look: Cielito Lindo Mexican Cuisine

Interior Mexican food comes to Cedar Park

"...The newest Mexican restaurant in Cedar Park takes its name..."

May 12, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

The Merry Devil of Edmonton

Hidden Room Theatre resurrects an odd comedy of Shakespeare's day

"...The Apocrypha Project: The Merry Devil of EdmontonYork Rite Masonic..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Perry Estate Looks to Next Chapter

Two structures on grounds up for demolition

"...With the 1928 Commodore Perry Mansion now fully restored and returned..."

June 6, 2014 News Feature by Amy Smith

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