Gone Girl

When a lady vanishes, David Fincher holds the moral compass.

"...glass darkly and deadly, in David Fincher’s nightmarishly fine Gone Girl. I say nightmarishly because nearly the whole of..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gone Girl

Amy charts Amy Winehouse's tragic path

July 10, 2015 Screens Feature by Nina Hernandez

The Girl on the Train

Another girl gone in this tedious adaptation

"...Gone girls are very big business. Certainly Paula Hawkins’ bestseller..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gone Baby Gone

Ben Affleck's feature directing debut is strong on atmospherics and moral quandaries.

"...in dark mood to that 2003 award-winning film adaptation. Gone Baby Gone is a story that seems to gurgle..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Amy Gentry on Good as Gone

This Austin author didn't set out to make her first novel a thriller, but now that it's out, she's good with that

"...Amy Gentry to discuss her debut novel, Good as Gone. The Houston native and longtime Austin resident was excited..."

July 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

The Match Factory Girl

With not even 70 minutes total running time and, seemingly, not more than two dozen total lines of dialogue, The Match Factory Girl spins a compelling narrative, a devastating cultural portrait, and an object lesson in the less-is-more school of storytelling.

"...in Finnish director Kaurismaki's 1990 film The Match Factory Girl. With only 70 minutes running time and, seemingly, not..."

April 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What a Girl Wants

"...dry wit would be cause for nostalgia?); but the girl's got charisma, and that's all Bynes needs to breeze..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Girl on the Bridge

"...Vanessa Paradis, Claude Aufaure, Bertie Cortez and Giorgios Gatzios. Girl on the Bridge is a film about luck and..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gone

Is Jill really the victim of a serial abductor or is she just very troubled?

"...barely enough to recommend the bland and criminally yawn-inducing Gone to even his most rabid fans. Paré is just..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Girl Cut in Two

French master Claude Chabrol's latest film is the tale of the downfall of a cheery, open-faced weathergirl in Lyons who falls in love with two different men.

"...its tale of the downfall of a cheery, open-faced weathergirl in Lyons named Gabrielle Deneige (Sagnier). With Sagnier's angel..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gone in Sixty Seconds

"...the latter part of the century, films like Valley Girl, Wild at Heart, Birdy, and Vampire's Kiss, all of..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girl God Checkmates Comedy

Trans comedy duo brings their new sketch show to Austin

"...Girl God, the trans comedy team of writers Grace Freud..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Blue Kentucky Girl Loretta Lynn

Rodeo Austin’s opening weekend kicks off a cold bang

"...a topmost 2011 Rodeo Austin headliner. Despite him having gone to pasture as a performer, it was quite the..."

March 3, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Luv Doc: Gone Soft

Has the Luv Doc gone soft?

"...Tommy Lee's measured West Texas drawl laid a solid..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Girl Crazy

Austin Women Taking Center Stage

"...Theatre Center and Frontera/Hyde Park Theatre, both, coincidentally, with "girl" in their title: the musical Dreamgirls by Tom Eyens..."

May 12, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Three Guys, a Girl, and a Dog Named Friday

Austin film collective Jollyville Pictures on its ingredients for success

"...But thanks to a girl, a dog, and one of the most exquisite short..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Girl in a Coma

"...When Girl in a Coma did "Cherry Bomb" with Cherie Currie..."

May 21, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Girl in a Coma's Nina Diaz Debuts Solo

Screaming without a sound

"...Frontwoman for San Antonio punk trio Girl in a Coma – famously named after Smiths song..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Girls Gone Geek

Weird Girls is an Austin-based website and YouTube channel dedicated to all things geeky, but from a female perspective

"...Call Danni Danger a weird girl, and she'll probably take it as a compliment. Although,..."

May 23, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report: Girls Gone Wild

Tiny angry terrorists assail America with cookies

"...the minds of our children. That devious group? The Girl Scouts...."

March 2, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

How to Be a Popular Girl

What will shy novelist Sarah Bird do now that she's back in the limelight, Dick Holland asks in this profile of the author of The Yokota Officers Club.

"...root beer, we hear, from the other room, "Brown-Eyed Girl," the Van Morrison classic important to the plot of..."

June 22, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Girl Talk

A Focus Group

"...of that research is focus groups, in which teen girls play with Girl Games products and talk about the..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Seven Decades of Fame and Fear in Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

New documentary on legendary star plays Cine Las Americas, Tribeca

"...The film they made together, Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It will be the..."

June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Cribdeath: Bellocq's Girl'

Second-place winner

"...and a washstand – perhaps a chair ... crib girls could command as much as a dollar a 'trick.'..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Books Feature by F.J. Schaack

Gone Gone Gone

The Head Cat himself, Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, talks in his sleep.

"...was the King of rockabilly if you ask me. “Gone Gone Gone.” [Singing], “That must be your girl, man,..."

May 7, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Go, Girl! Go!

A father beams as her records his daughter's first season as a middle school football player.

"...for the middle school football team. The stud. No girl has ever made "the cut" at her school. I've..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Features Feature by Phillip Schmandt

Watch This: Paige Plaisance Swampy-Tonks Her Blues Away on “Good Time Girl”

The new video features a slew of Austin creatives at Sam’s Town Point

"...she prepares her first LP, latest single “Good Time Girl” dishes an anthem of Austin nightlife, fuelled by good..."

Sept. 6, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Good as Gone: A Novel of Suspense

Amy Gentry's page-turning thriller is set apart by its realistic and empathetic portrayal of abuse victims and their families

"...of victims and their families that set Good as Gone apart from other page-turning crime dramas...."

July 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Austin Oyster Festival Is Shella Fierce, Progress Coffee Is Back in Black, Girl Scouts Are Out for Blood, La Condesa Is Gonna Try Hard, and Who’s Putting All That Queso on the Verde?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...cried big tears for the caffeinated hangout of days gone by? Well, after almost a decade of focusing on..."

Feb. 22, 2023 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Girl in a Coma

San Antonio's badass grrrl trio just needs to stay together

"...often on last November's Exits & All the Rest, Girl In A Coma's fourth, for example toward the end..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

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