Love Field

"...Latham. Love Field is a quietly engaging and uncharacteristic little period piece set in the American South in the..."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Game Plan

The Rock plays a quarterback whose life is altered by the daughter he didn't know he had.

"...football quarterback named Joe Kingman whose perfectly empty, materialistic little life is being turned upside down by an 8-year-old..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Paradise

"...goes up to the attic to fondle her lost little boy's booties or his tiny little jacket. Into these..."

Oct. 4, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Barbershop: The Next Cut

Cutting hair and cutting up

"...underrated 2002 comedy about making a living with a little off the top. Like its predecessors, Barbershop: The Next..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Arthur Christmas

The folks at Aardman Animation, who gave us Wallace & Gromit, seve up an instant – and funny – holiday classic.

"...The worst thing I can say about this sweet little slice of holiday cheer is that it is preceded..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Promise

This fantastical story from the Chinese director Chen Kaige mixes battles, magic, romance, and mistaken identities for a lovely but unsatisfying blend.

"...a goddess promises beauty, riches, and power to the little girl Qingcheng at the cost of never experiencing lasting..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Family Circle

Don Howard's new documentary turns Texas football, cheerleading, and weddings into an anthropological model -- with a little help from Jung.

"...tryouts is actually fraught with important life lessons for girls. A ritual that fairly credible moms like Kathleen deem..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Element of Crime

"...eyes of the waterlogged, mutilated corpses -- donkey and little girl -- that open the film. Fisher stumbles around..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Specialist

"...when he notices that the bad guy has a little girl in the car with him. Woods, ever the..."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Review: The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour gets post-apocalyptic with her second feature

"...her riveting filmmaking debut, the feminist vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is this fascinating post-apocalyptic..."

Sept. 27, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trailer Park Gets Dramatic

From Dallas to Germany, these features highlight global conflicts

"...One little girl is keeping a secret in Nazi Germany, a..."

Aug. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

What It Is to Be Human

Actor Martin Burke, now in the midst of his fifth sell-out run as David Sedaris' Little Elf in The Santaland Diaries, talks about that show's success and his career as an actor.

"...the midst of his fifth sell-out run as Sedaris' Little Elf, we talked about that show's success and his..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Kacy Crowley Stirs Strange Brew

Singer-songwriter-booker soundtracks South Austin hot spot

"...books the Manchaca Road coffee house, calls it “the little club that could.”..."

Feb. 13, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Annie: A review

Roadshow at Bass Concert Hall, June 5-7

"...Fortunately, the little girls of Austin were considerably more thrilled to be..."

June 6, 2009 Arts Post by Katherine Gregor

The Singer Not the Song

But the Little Girls Understand

"...selling over one million copies a month to teenage girls just like me. Mark Lindsay (l) and Gloria Stavers..."

June 11, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Epiphanies for the Blind

Who's Teaching Who at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired?

"...take a hit to my left hip from a little bespectacled blond boy (he looks like the "Messy Marvin"..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000. Cast: Matthew Gray Gubler, Annalynne McCord, Alisha..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Believing the Children

In 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at their Oak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It's likely they were innocent. Indeed, it's very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution

"...When the little girl on the witness stand said, "No, it didn't..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Miller's Tale

Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'

"...band photo of the Prairie View Co-eds, the black, all-girl swing band from Texas that toured nationally during World..."

July 6, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

What a box set should be:'One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found'

"...heartache of young love like a heavenly choir of girls' angel voices. One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...people who were at her birth. I took this little pup tent wherever we went. I'd just put blankets..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...later to find he's no longer cool and the girl he still has feelings for now dates the former..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Genre-Hopping Hustler Quentin Arispe Wants to Be in Every Room

The Past Lives’ theatrical lead singer takes on a party girl role on new solo LP, As Above, So Below

"...shorthand. Song titles tumble out of their mouth with little explanation; it’s implied that the impact of each release..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Mi Vida Loca: My Crazy Life

"...you've hardly seen before in a commercial movie. Sad Girl (Aviles), a Latina gang girl from the Echo Park..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...Midnighter's willingness to push more buttons and go that little bit further. He said, "There's tons of crazy stuff..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Susanna Kaysen Lays It on the Line

The Camera My Mother Gave Me, by Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, is a memoir that has nothing to do with either the author's camera or her mother, Marion Winik writes. It is about her vagina. It is the chronicle of a mysterious and intractable medical problem she had with this little-discussed part of the body, and of the interesting experiences she endured in what I think of as Patient-World, the alternate reality inhabited by those of us who have something wrong with our bodies.

"...mysterious and intractable medical problem she had with this little-discussed part of the body, and of the interesting experiences..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Marion Winik

TV Eye

A small-screen return to twitching noses, magic potions, and girls who hold the power; also, a review of TNT’s daring live-action Animal Farm.

"...Sometimes, I find myself wishing I were a girl. Not that conflicted, hormone-crazed girl-beast I was at puberty,..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Before the TV series, there was the movie in which a Nineties Valley Girl discovers her true calling.

"...alright. Only problem is, Buffy's chosen to shop. Valley girl Buffy (Swanson) is a high school cheerleader whose biggest..."

Aug. 7, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...staying the same. "There's a mix of everything. A little horror, a little found footage, lots of thrillers and..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed

Late-night fare and short film lineup announced

"...and the world premiere of Austin Chick’s revenge thriller Girls Against Boys. Of the Midnighters selections, programmer Jarod Neece..."

Feb. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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