Gender Studies

Kino goes back to the classroom with How to Be a Man and How to Be a Woman

"...to Be a Man and How to Be a Woman and curated by the A/V Geeks' Skip Elsheimer. Frankly,..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Cowboy del Amor

Ivan Thompson, the "Cowboy Cupid" who brokers marriages between American men and Mexican women, is a truly fascinating documentary character that is expertly revealed through rock-solid storytelling.

"...16 years this "Cowboy Cupid" has been introducing marriage-minded American men to Mexican women. Well, that's one interpretation, anyhow...."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Grace of My Heart

"...Carole King, the movie takes the story of one woman's songwriting career and her journey toward self-expression and sets..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Supercop

"...seem, the most enjoyable action film currently playing in American theatres is a four-year-old, atrociously dubbed, modestly budgeted (by..."

July 26, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

2nd International Festival of Short Films

"...Maclean (Crush), a creepy, compelling fantasy in which a woman creates her ideal man from some revolting glop she..."

April 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rhapsody in August

"...Richard Gere. Kurosawa's lovely meditation on the nature of American-Japanese relations could not come at a better time. While..."

March 27, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

Compassion, grace, and humor distinguish the Oscar hopefuls

"...event more than two years ago, a distrustful Christian woman is saved by the selfless actions of her fellow..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fourplay

These four stories of unabashed sexual intimacy are often funny, sometimes poignant, always unconventional and playfully erotic.

"...interiors were filmed in Austin, where Henry (University, Inc., American Cowboy) had been based prior to his recent move..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Anything Goes

That free-for-all spirit is part of the kick of FronteraFest

"...Things)," by Jason Grote. Capital T Theatre presents a one-woman show about America's commodity fetishism in the wake of..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Song of America

"...bigwig: “Born to Cynthia Parker, an abducted settler white woman, and Chief Noconas, the young warrior led the Kwahadi..."

Dec. 27, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Breakfast on Pluto

In this latest from Neil Jordan, Cillian Murphy plays the swinging transvestite Patrick "Kitten" Braden, who wanders through and into the pop-and-politics culture of Seventies England.

"...grows up and longs to seek out this mystery woman, if only to assuage his unshakable belief that she..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Double Trouble: James Fotopoulos & Julia Halperin

"...short takes us down the slippery slope of an American woman's homicidal crack-up. The film is based on the..."

Nov. 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

War by the (Text)book

The State Board of Education's first public hearing on social studies textbooks confirmed that, underneath the thin cloak of bureaucratic civility, an ideological battle is raging over whose story the textbooks should tell.

"...and divisiveness. Eleanor Hutcheson, representing the Daughters of the American Revolution, pointed to a Holt textbook that included the..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

"...screening in an audience with a high percentage of Greek-Americans in it and the howls of delight and recognition..."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

World affairs and more Critical Mass mess missives

"...in her assessment of the situation. Today the Austin American-Statesman once again reports that Syria is a sponsor of..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Column

Jump Tomorrow

"...is an impetuous Frenchman who's been dumped by the woman to whom he has just proposed; Alicia (Verbeke) is..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love and Basketball

A young woman learns to navigate the hoops on and off the court.

"...and Quincy (Epps) are childhood pals from an upscale African-American neighborhood in L.A. Two things bind them together for..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

One Night Stand

"...snazzy career, and impeccable fashion sense. He's the Nineties American Dream taken to its next logical level, and he's..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The People Under the Stairs

Wes Craven mixes social injustice into urban horror

"...be imagined. Here reside the deranged landlords, Man and Woman, who are both husband and wife and brother and..."

Nov. 8, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

How Texas Wreaked Havoc on One Man's Journey to Citizenship

Living the American nightmare

"...night, he came upon two Honduran men and a woman from El Salvador. They continued until late afternoon the..."

May 19, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

SXSW and Amazon Announce Virtual Festival Lineup

Feature and shorts from 2020 fest going online for 10 days

"...in the U.S., and will be available to any American viewers with an Amazon account, for free...."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gretel & Hansel

The woods are dark and deep, but far from lovely ...

"...in the House is a neu-tragic take on the American ghost story...."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Asia in Winter

Austin Asian American Film Festival celebrates women in cinema

"...The Austin Asian American Film Festival may be taking the year off, but..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Shalavé Cawley

The Long Road to Telling Cathy's Tale

Author Sarah Bird's journey from overheard story to screenplay to book

"...rodeo subcultures, Bird overheard some cowboys talking about a woman that served as a Buffalo Soldier. She didn't know..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Arts Feature by Marisa Charpentier

Anything

True love overcomes convention in this stylish, earnest romance.

"...between the two, although this Southern gentleman and trans woman appear to have more differences than commonalities. By the..."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Quiet Passion

A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson

"...a series of full-color stills of carnage and the American flag, the worse for wear, flapping in the wind...."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin's Most Famous Atheist

The life and death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, The Most Hated Woman in America

"...you counted Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the infamous founder of American Atheists and the woman who got the Supreme Court..."

March 17, 2017 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club

Tyler Perry makes a comedy about single mothers who don't get enough credit.

"...in theatres. Perry has found a built-in yet underserved African-American audience for his movies, although it’s starting to seem..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Room

Room wears the skin of a psychological thriller, but plays out as something far darker, weirder, and more distancing. The film was invited to Cannes and earned Independent Spirit Award nominations for its Austin artists, Kyle Henry and Cyndi Williams.

"...a while – as a film programmer, a documentarian (American Cowboy, University Inc.), and an editor (Manito). But Room,..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pulse

The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.

"...and purchased by Miramax for the rights to an American remake (which is in the works and being directed..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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