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With genuine sparks between its two lovestruck leads and a delightfully flinchy performance from Meryl Streep, this comedy is just what its title implies: prime.
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Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Perfect Man
Less a feature film than 90 minutes of tweenage feminine wish fulfillment, The Perfect Man is like Teen People come to life.
"...is that while it’s professing mad love for single mothers (in the form of Locklear), the film is concomitantly..."
June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Monster-in-Law
This banal and lukewarm slice of romantic comedy is as soft and ephemeral as any colorized Ted Turner outing.
"...Its breezy, pointless take on the old saw about mothers-in-law being such irascible harpies is as long in the..."
May 13, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Forgotten
Julianne Moore is out of her mind with grief – or is she just out of her mind?
Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Real Women Have Curves
"...locked in an age-old struggle. It's the struggle between mothers and daughters, expectations and possibilities, cultural constraints and individual..."
Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
About a Boy
"...up the ideal sort of women -- lonely single mothers -- and begins frequenting a support group called S.P.A.T...."
May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Kiss Me Guido
"...Kiss Me Guido: Jewish women are sexually frustrated, Italian-American mothers are hysterical, artistes are pretentious, gay men are bitchy,..."
Aug. 29, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Losing Chase
Feb. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor
The Jerky Boys
"...as though it's simply been too long since their mothers washed their mouths out with soap. Overgrown children are..."
Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Trading Mom
"...that these children have a whole string of successive mothers… this is all more book material than film material...."
March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Danzón
A woman leaves her home and family in Mexico City to embark on a romantic quest in Veracruz only to lose sight of the original subject of her search and, in the process, find something more precious – herself.
"...bustling city and makes fast friends with prostitutes, unwed mothers, a curious hotel owner and a couple of drag..."
Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Turtle Beach
"...women closer than their shared guilt about being bad mothers. But, at least, it's nothing that a little good,..."
May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
SXSW 2019 Reveals Initial Artist List
Amanda Palmer, Oh Sees, Laura Jane Grace, Swervedriver and 236 more
"...Against Me leader Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers, and Fugees founder Wyclef Jean...."
Oct. 17, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin
Day Trips: Bracken Cave and Other Bat Caves
The bat colonies around Texas are swollen with mothers and their pups emerging for the nightly feeding frenzy, making for spectacular shows
"...of the maternity colony swells as pups join their mothers in the feeding frenzy...."
Sept. 8, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Voice for the Missing Women
Cohen New Works Festival: 'The Women of Juárez' reviewed
"...and illegal immigrants. Now I think of daughters and mothers, of hundreds of unsolved serial feminicidios and the MISSING..."
March 26, 2013 Arts Post by Jillian Owens
Good Night Austin, Texas, Wherever You Are
Dweezil Zappa returns some ‘Bongo Fury’ to Austin, this time at Stubb's.
"...rock show I attended was Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention at the Fillmore East in New York..."
Nov. 20, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri
An Expanding Definition of Family
Karen Skloss' personal documentary explores mothers and daughters and the choices they make
"...began creating a series of video portraits featuring single mothers and fathers in the Single Parent Resource Network, a..."
March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Sarah Jean Billeiter
Page Two: The Stravinsky Theory
The healing power of prescience, set on "repeat"
"...since I first heard it on Freak Out!, the Mothers of Invention's first album, maybe four decades back. I..."
Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black
Scanlines
Mothering Heights
"...remember mama. Lots of mamas in lots of movies. Mothers and mammies, matrons and moms. Traditional moms, unconventional moms,..."
May 12, 1995 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Austin Film Festival Brings the Terror of Motherhood in Nanny
New Voice Award winner Nikyatu Jusu looks at horror with a Black woman's gaze
"...Festival New Voice Award) counts two films about imperfect mothers, Jennifer Kent's The Babadook and Kasi Lemmons' Eve's Bayou,..."
Oct. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf
Moms Describe Anguish in Letters From Inside the Hutto Detention Facility
Reuniting isn’t easy
"...different detention centers where "officers just laughed" as anguished mothers passed out from the pain of separation...."
July 13, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Made for a Woman
Nonprofit teaches Centex girls to be strong enough for a man
"...Teach Your Daughters, an "empowerment" program aimed at "empowering mothers and daughters from diverse socioeconomic, educational and religious backgrounds..."
Jan. 15, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson
Breast-Feeding Campaign Kicks Off
"...efficient than formula – yet the majority of Texas mothers stop breast-feeding before the recommended 6 months. According to..."
Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Sara Robberson
(Don't) Take Them out at the Ball Game
At Dell Diamond, there's more than one kind of boob to be found in the stands.
"...to their senses and vow henceforth to welcome nursing mothers – as required by Texas law...."
May 19, 2006 News Feature by Melanie Haupt
The Latest in Paper
Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood
"...pain. Mother Knows, a collection of short stories about mothers and motherhood from the literary quarterly Glimmer Train, salutes..."
May 7, 2004 Books Feature by Marrit Ingman
Naked City
Breast-feeding advocates seek to restore programs after hospital layoffs
"...community groups, such as Heart of Texas Lactation Consultants; Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin; and Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies...."
May 7, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith
The New Nuclear Family
What Was Once Inconceivable
"...to kids, people are very risk-adverse," he said. Birth mothers also play a large role in selecting adoptive parents,..."
Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll
Mr. Mom
More men are taking time off from work to enjoy fatherhood
"...fathers do not encounter the same physical problems as mothers, but certainly men should be given the time to..."
June 30, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll
Lege Lines: A Second Shot at Tackling Maternal Mortality
After years spent gutting women’s health care, are lawmakers doing enough?
"...ending isn't the case for hundreds of new Texas mothers, who statistics show are dying at an alarming pace...."
Aug. 11, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Mother's Little Monster
Lynne Ramsay and Tilda Swinton on the complexities of their Columbine-inspired collaboration
"...or not, we've all been children; we've all had mothers. And we've all seen moments on our mothers' faces..."
