OUTsider Fest Review: Nia & Ness' Home.

Splitting the world open, one performance at a time

"...poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote, the world would split open. Nia and Ness are definitely in the business of splitting..."

Feb. 23, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime

Film Review: Amazônia Groove

An entrancing collection of music from the rivers of northeast Brazil

"...its name, celebrating the communal delight in his band’s “Amazônia Groove.”..."

March 9, 2019 Screens Post by Michael King

Connie and Carla

Witnessing a mob hit can be a real drag.

"...Directed by: Michael Lembeck. Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, Stephen Spinella, Dash Mihok, David Duchovny..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Larry Crowne

Tom Hanks directs and co-stars in this rom-com with Julia Roberts, though I suspect neither actor will list it high on their résumés.

"...by Tom Hanks and My Big Fat Greek Wedding's Nia Vardalos, Larry Crowne is a slight, facile, and ultimately..."

July 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

Nia Vardalos’ fossilized sequel to a sequel still has its charms

"...Directed by: Nia Vardalos. Starring: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor, Andrea..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Marvels

Lower, lesser, slower, baby

"...Directed by: Nia DaCosta. Starring: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Candyman

Cabrini Green’s monster returns to manifest abiding Black fears

"...Directed by: Nia DaCosta. Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett,..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Little Woods

Tessa Thompson takes all the tough choices in a grimy tale of downtrodden life

"...Directed by: Nia DaCosta. Starring: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, James Badge Dale,..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

New on DVD: Equals

Kristen Stewart sci-fi romance is long on mood and light on plot

"...have succumbed to Switched on Syndrome (SOS), a four-stage sickness in which a typically placid person starts to experience..."

Sept. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

It ain't reality TV, but it may be closer to approaching real life: Nia Vardalos' My Big Fat Greek Life.

"...critical TV watcher go belly-up. From the Michael Jackson exposés and ABC's smarmy Are You Hot? to the "scandal"..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Held Up

"...Directed by: Steve Rash. Starring: Jamie Foxx, Barry Corbin, Nia Long and Jake Busey. The talented people in front..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Bryan Poyser

Public Notice

Las Niñas de las Faldas

"...to heed the all-points bulletins issued by Cornerstone Gay & Lesbian Center: Club Skirt, The El Niña Skirt a..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Column by Kate X Messer

Thunderbolts*

Marvel assembles a new team of misfit superheroes

"...Speaking of redemption, director Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank, Paper Towns) is the latest director in the..."

May 2, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: Deaf Austin Theatre’s Tiny Beautiful Things

Fostering connection through Cheryl Strayed’s advice columns

"...
Sorrowfully, Nihilist in Need..."

May 24, 2024 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Missing

Screen life thriller Searching sequel is fun if preposterous

"...Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Nia Long, Megan Suri and Tim Griffin...."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

OUTsider Festival Beams Us Up and Away to a Gayass Galaxy Far, Far Away

Austin’s queer transmedia fest goes virtual on March 5-7

"...Latinx artist Xandra Ibarra (aka La Chica Boom) and Nia & Ness, a Black, out-lesbian couple and performance art..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

The Vast of Night

Jaw-dropping reinvention of the UFO scare genre is audacious and brilliant

"...it was. Not some modern spin, not making them millennials in thrift store sock-hop cosplay, but real and of..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bacurau

Brazilian drama mixes social commentary and exploitation action

"...Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Starring: Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Jonny Mars,..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Playhouse's Tiny Beautiful Things

There's excellent work in Austin Playhouse's production about Cheryl Strayed writing an advice column, but where's the humility?

"...a period of terrible isolation. Then, after a time – days, months, years – we find that we aren't..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...Ferguson; then Matthew McConaughey gets back to the urgent business of taking it easy in Harmony Korine's The Beach..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces First Wave

New films star Melissa McCarthy, Frankie Muniz, Joel Edgerton

"...begins to unravel in a horrifying fashion. Plagued by illness and nightmarish visions, the clerk believes he's the target..."

Aug. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Los Premios 2010 Around the Bend

Win tickets to the Los Premios Texas Concert at the Long Center.

"...Diana Reyes BEST SPANISH ROCK/POP ARTIST Jaguares Maria Jose Moenia Aleks Syntek BEST HIP HOP/URBAN ARTIST Bomba Estereo Angel..."

July 28, 2010 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Good Hair

In this thoughtful documentary, Chris Rock touches on – if by no means produces a definitive telling of – many facets of the highly charged topic of African-American hair.

"...interrogating everybody from Hollywood actresses such as Raven-Symoné and Nia Long to sketchy weave salesmen and the bantering clientele..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cinderella/Mi Madre y Yo

Mothers danced in both Long Center venues on Mother's Day, but oh, what different moms

"...Madre y Yo, a dance-theatre piece by Barcelona-based choreographer Sònia Gómez, was how much her mother seemed to trust..."

May 15, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Food-o-File

All the movies you can watch and all the food you can eat: Virginia B. Wood reveals the Eat, Drink, Watch Movies lineup for spring.

"...little comedy that broke all box-office records in 2002, Nia Vardalos' My Big Fat Greek Wedding at the Alamo..."

April 18, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Bend It Like Beckham

"...that soccer calls for. It's a game of extraordinary finesse, skill, and nuance. When it least appears anything is..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It's the Thoughts That Count

The folklore of love

"...that occupy an area of western Brazil known as Rondônia, which today, according to Mindlin, is home to about..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Books Feature by Rachel Feit

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

"...bloodstream and activated by remote control. Sever (Liu), the NIA's top Female Asian Assassin in Black (and you can..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World, every MCU film reviewed

"...allusions don't stop there; his tips-of-the-hat range from Powell & Pressburger's 1946 picture A Matter of Life and Death..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Field Guide Festival Returns to Celebrate Ties Between Local Farmers and Restaurants

Food festival to feature 65 local chefs and farmers

"...ingredients. This dinner pairs the following farmers and chefs: • Ana Torrealba de la Vega (El Naranjo) and Tracy..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Food Post by Maryam Ahmed

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