Bride of Chucky

"...dismemberment that's remarkably well-done. Hong Kong transplant Yu (The Bride With White Hair) reworks the Chucky mythos while cinematographer..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of the Bride

In this Argentinean film, a single dad and businessman struggles to keep his personal life afloat while undergoing a midlife crisis.

"...Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as a Young Child if that gives you any indication). It's been a..."

May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

FLDS Bride Says Attorney Should Shut Up

Daughter of polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs tells her attorney to "shut your mouth" and stop talking crap about her "spiritual" marriage

"...Judge Barbara Walther says that evidence collected by Texas Child Protective Services proves that Teresa Jeffs, daughter of jailed..."

July 21, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Committee Considers FLDS Raid

Invited testimony today related to last year's raid in Eldorado

"...town of Eldorado. Last year investigators with the state's Child Protective Services, and dozens of law enforcement officers with..."

April 14, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Ready or Not

Party games will be the death of Samara Weaving in this raucous black comedy

"...until you're playing. So, for example, if newly wed bride Grace (Weaving) had been told by her husband, Alex..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Imagine Me & You

A traditional romantic comedy with a lesbian twist, Imagine Me and You has its charms, but for a movie about loving radically, it sure plays it safe.

"...Darren Boyd. British Ensemble Romantic-Comedy Scenario No. 3: Broody bride sees attractive stranger at the wedding, questions the possibility..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Freddy vs. Jason

Did anyone realize Camp Crystal Lake is right down the highway from Elm Street?

"...Walks Among the Rows" doesn’t show up to menace children in the corn. Per usual, the cast is working..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Heaven & Earth

"...the eyes of a Vietnamese citizen -- a peasant child who grows to become a woman, a prisoner, a..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happily N'Ever After

The animated Happily N'Ever After isn't just cynically humorless, it's shoddy-looking to boot.

"...that might appeal to both camps (e.g., The Princess Bride). The point is, up until the arrival of Jay..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moving Violation

Classic sexploitation films shake things up at the Alamo

"...He might say that 1938's Child Bride, with its infamous scene of 12-year-old Shirley Mills..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sea of Dreams

She's married to the sea, and he belongs to the earth: This Mexican film relies on prehistoric folk myths and a delightful color palette for its impact.

"...Grecia (Bar), a beautiful young woman who is a bride of the sea. Even as a child, the sea's..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Madame Butterfly

"...10 operas at gunpoint. In 19th-century Japan, the teenaged bride Cio-Cio-San (Ying), aka Butterfly, foolishly takes her arranged marriage..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Better Than Chocolate

"...time with a host of subsidiary issues, including censorship, parent-child relationships, and homophobia. The main characters are Maggie (Dwyer),..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

I'm Not There

This meditation on Bob Dylan is infused with love – not the slavish kind but a true-eyed tribute to the artist who belongs to nobody and everybody at once.

"...performs “Goin’ to Acapulco” as funeral dirge for a child bride. The narrative stops in its track for something..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

FLDS Sect Thriving in West Texas

Despite leader Warren Jeffs' legal woes, group's gated compound in Eldorado reportedly growing

"...trial to detail the horrors of being an FLDS child bride. Wall (who, until deciding to go public two..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Prophet Fires Attorney...Again

A strategy to avoid July trial?

"...trial, on charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child (which could net him a life sentence) and sexual..."

July 8, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Fugitive fundamentalist Mormon leader possibly spotted in Florida

"...counts of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a child and sexual conduct with a child, for arranging a..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Book Festival 2019:
On the Topic of Mothers

Saeed Jones, Michele Filgate, & Angie Cruz grapple with a mother’s love

"...understand the mystery of her mother, who was a child bride in the Dominican Republic in the 1960s, and..."

Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Barbara Purcell

Jess Klein’s Jamaica Farewell

Local songcatcher exits Austin after Cactus Cafe newlyweds gig

"...House in Manchaca. It was a small affair. The bride wore sparkling white and glowed like a woman who’d..."

April 19, 2016 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Redacted, Then Redressed

AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films

"...screenwriter Tennessee Williams' deliciously overheated tale of a still-virginal child bride (Carroll Baker) putting off the advances of her..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'The Voice in My Head'

Psyche!? Fake dead girlfriend breaks Internet.

"...Information Age ensures TMI about practically every man, woman, child, and grumpy cat on earth. Now fake dead girlfriends..."

Jan. 22, 2013 Sports Post by Russ Espinoza

The Soul of the Scent

Perfume and pleasure in Alyssa Harad's 'Coming to My Senses'

"...Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride (Viking) before I burrowed my nose into my wrist..."

July 11, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

The Pomology of Sweetness and Light

This musical drama about Johnny Appleseed, told with puppets, bears sweet fruit

"...as chaste as he was peripatetic, and his putative child bride remained untouched by those hands that sowed the..."

June 18, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Jeffs Sentenced for Being Rape Accomplice

Polygamist prophet gets two consecutive terms of five years to life

"...convicted in a Utah court on Sept. 25. The child bride, Elissa Wall, now 21, testified that she pleaded..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Polygamous Prophet Update: Jeffs Found Guilty of Being Rape Accomplice

Warren Jeffs nailed for role in arranging and carrying out marriage of 14-year-old to her cousin

"...At last month's trial, the former child bride, Elissa Wall, now 21, took the stand, testifying..."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Polygamist Prophet Update

FLDS leader Jeffs asks that rape-as-accomplice trial be moved; in different case, judge orders him to pay up

"...eight FLDS men charged with polygamy, after his former child bride, Candi Shapley, refused to testify against him. Although..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

FLDS' Jeffs to Stand Trial

"Prophet" accused of abetting rape by arranging and presiding over the 2001 "spiritual marriage" of a 14-year-girl and her 19-year-old first cousin

"...Concluding that the child bride referred to in court documents as Jane Doe..."

Dec. 22, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Prophet Jeffs Will Stand Trial

"...Concluding that the child bride referred to in court documents as Jane Doe..."

Dec. 19, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

Polygamous Prophet Update

Court hears testimony of alleged victim of "spiritual marriage" arranged and presided over by Warren Jeffs

"...The child bride known in court records as Jane Doe No...."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Jane Doe No. 4 Testifies Against Polygamist Prophet Warren Jeffs

"...The child bride known in court records as Jane Doe No...."

Nov. 22, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

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