SXSW TV Review: Mrs. Davis

Mad nuns, mad AIs, and mad energy from the new Peacock show

"...This year, it is the upcoming Peacock show Mrs. Davis. Set in the present, it’s a sci-fi/fantasy/fable starring..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Joe Gross

Angela Davis Closes Out UT's Inaugural Black Matters Conference

Educator and former political prisoner captivates with keynote address

"...of the conference was planted by [civil rights leader] Mrs. Aaronetta Pierce, who is the chair of the Black..."

Oct. 7, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Steve Davis’ Top 10 Films of 2018

"...Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal (Blindspotting); Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara (The Favourite); Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian (Searching)..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Steve Davis' Top 10 Films of 2022

"...Cate Blanchett (TÁR), Hong Chau (The Whale), Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris)..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...(Sorry to Bother You), as well as AI-versus-nuns dreamed Mrs. Davis, and the debut of another previously-SXSW-annointed title, season..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Last Days of Chez Nous

"...This Australian film from director Armstrong (My Brilliant Career, Mrs. Soffel) presents a microcosmic story of an extended family..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jumping the Broom

This urban family rom-com actually has something interesting to say about race and romance.

"...Loretta Devine, Meagan Good, Tasha Smith, Julie Bowen, DeRay Davis and Brian Stokes Mitchell. An urban family rom-com that..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival to Celebrate Lost's Damon Lindelof With Outstanding TV Writer Award

Fall fest also adds All of Us Strangers, The Holdovers

"...Mrs. Davis, his big-swing sci-fi for Peacock (co-created with Tara..."

Sept. 14, 2023 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Brings the Cosmos to Austin

Keynote brings unseen images from the James Webb telescope

"...Hernandez will be discussing their new Peacock series Mrs Davis, about a nun (The Hunt star Betty Gilpin) battling..."

Jan. 10, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Making Out With Marianne Faithfull

Through the fog with Marianne.

"...emancipation. All of it, from Jimi Hendrix to Miles Davis. And there it still sits, on the corner of..."

May 31, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Public Notice

Gather 'round the Yule log and the figgy pudding, get out a paper and pen, and jot down some of these items form our Annual Holiday Wish List 2000. Local organizations need you!

"...his honeymoon money to quell their fears. When it's Mrs. Davis' turn in line, after a number of nervous..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

Musings on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

"...hard) is ostensibly about Jackie, the author, John H. Davis (who happens to be Jackie's cousin), evidently has a..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Books Feature

When It Felt True

The Austin Chronicle's Raoul Hernandez curates an AFS Essential Cinema series on the 'enigma' of William Wyler

"...Wyler," wrote the actress, "because of stories from Bette Davis and other actors about his endless retakes and bullying...."

Oct. 15, 2010 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

"...Vogel (far right) is helped by her grandson John Davis, daughter Peggy Davis, and granddaughter Chelsea Davis...."

Dec. 12, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Public Notice

From race riots in South Florida to the MLK Day March in Austin, "Public Notice" reflects on how far we've come and how far we've yet to go.

"...Pride (In the Name of Love) Mrs. Byrd used to walk Blackie every night. We could..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer

Postmarks

VanScoy on Wrong Track

"...Scott Polikov Vote for Davis..."

April 10, 1998 Column

Aural History

Hannibal Lokumbe and his trumpet stand at the crossroads of jazz, blues, and Jimi Hendrix

"...the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's hiring Lokumbe to write Dear Mrs. Parks, an oratorio for desegregation symbol Rosa Parks...."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Turning

Henry James' creepy classic resurrected yet again

"...Directed by: Floria Sigismondi. Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Niall Greig Fulton, Denna Thomsen,..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Stuart Little

Retelling of E.B. White's children's classic.

"...Directed by: Rob Minkoff. Starring: Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Brian Doyle-Murray, Estelle Getty, Dabney..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...Pellington; with Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope Davis...."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Filigree Theatre's The Turn of the Screw

The carefully crafted atmosphere in this ghost story from Filigree Theatre may have you wondering if unseen spirits are lurking in the dark

"...as the remote gentleman, then as the estate's housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, and the boy Miles, whose recent behavior at..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Rosenwald

Chicago-based, Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald is profiled

"...of television’s very first (and unquestionably Semitic) sitcom, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg. Rosenwald doesn’t quite knock it out of the..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The History Boys

If you like your British movies quick, raunchy, reflective, and bittersweet, then The History Boys, based on the stage play, is for you.

"...lessons in “general studies” include re-enactments of old Bette Davis movies and the singing of showtunes. Dripping with poetic..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

After a Fashion

Join Stephen on his adventures with Buh-buh-buh-buh-Bing's widow, some cuties at Club DeVille, and the scene at Factory People, Austin's latest grab at its allocated 15 minutes.

"...with a horror-movie theme, presented fabulous vignettes of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...with Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Judy Davis...."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mansion Fire Fallout

DPS head Col. Tommy Davis steps down; meanwhile, Texas first lady Anita Perry steps up to raise funds for restoration

"...Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, Col. Tommy Davis stepped down last Friday as head of the Texas..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...All About Eve D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Marilyn..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Three Canyons

The Southwest Edge of Texas Hill Country -- Home to Lost Maples and Garner State Park -- Is Rich in Both Beauty and History

"...the 1800s. Very few places in Texas, notably the Davis and Guadalupe mountains and the Big Bend, remained contested..."

May 18, 2001 Features Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Letter

"...The Letter D: William Wyler (1940); with Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Gale Sondergaard, Frieda Inescort. Bette..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Fool for Love

"...Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor and a lesser Bette Davis vehicle from 1956, The Catered Affair, finish the evening...."

Feb. 12, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

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