All About Nina

Mary Elizabeth Winstead excels as a comic in freefall

"...writer/director Eva Vives’ debut feature. Centering on stand-up comedian Nina Geld (Winstead) fleeing the East Coast for potential fame..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Checking In: Nina Diaz Ponders Playing As the Titanic Sinks

“I thought to myself, ‘Would I play ’til the ship sank?’”

"...highlight of Vallejo’s new duets LP, Amigos Amigos, is Nina Diaz. “A tremulous indie rock contribution from Nina Diaz,..."

Nov. 18, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film Review: Nina Forever

Everybody loves some body sometime

"...Why does the movie Nina Forever exist?..."

March 19, 2015 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Nina Forever

When the three-way includes his dead ex

"...Nina Forever, the darkly comic yet decidedly serious debut feature..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Nina Katchadourian's Indecision on the Moon

The Apollo 11-inspired work, housed in a pitch-black room at the Blanton, may tell us how adventurous or conservative we really are

"...I'm simplifying, of course. Simplifying is also what Nina Katchadourian has done in her space odyssey (actually created..."

June 2, 2017 Arts Review by Dave Randall

“Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser” at the Blanton

Driven by untamable curiosity and over-the-top commitment, the artist makes work that revels in improvisation and play

"...I left Nina Katchadourian's "Curiouser" with the conviction that I had found..."

May 12, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Girl in a Coma's Nina Diaz Debuts Solo

Screaming without a sound

"...By 2012, Nina Diaz had bottomed out. The singer's addiction to alcohol..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Nina Diaz Record Review

The Beat Is Dead (Cosmica)

"...Nina Diaz's solo debut finds her in an unusual position..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Spotlight: Nina Nastasia

Nina Nastasia bewitches.

"...Nina Nastasia, whose album The Blackened Air is as beautiful..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

From Leather to Chiffon With Nina Proctor

Costume designer talks season 2 of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

"...mastermind behind Dusk's badass looks is Austin-based costume designer Nina Proctor, who has worked with Robert Rodriguez on over..."

Aug. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Alexa Harrington

Nina on Netflix

Simone leads a chorus of music docs streaming online

"...its documentation of folk, jazz, and civil rights activist Nina Simone. A review of it is quite simple: Devastating...."

July 29, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Counting Bones With Nina Nastasia

"...guitar Wednesday night, it seemed an appropriate environment for Nina Nastasia. The New Yorker’s songs have always exposed an..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Nina Forever

A dead woman haunts a couple in this indie horror romance

Feb. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman whip things into a baroque frenzy in this crazed hybrid of drama and horror set amid a ballet corps.

"...In an opening dream sequence, an overlooked ballerina named Nina Sayers (Portman) imagines herself dancing the lead in Swan..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Truly, Madly, Deeply

"...seem to be practically all that's left of heroine Nina (Stevenson). With her lover Jamie gone, she finds herself..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live Here!

An all-star cast evaluates the final episode of Rupaul's Drag Race

"...true. Especially sad because most in the room felt Nina Flowers was robbed. But you know, Bebe Zahara Benet..."

March 25, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

The Object of My Affection

"...of the complicated relationship between a pregnant social worker, Nina (Aniston), and her gay roommate and best friend, George..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cake

In a rare dramatic role, Jennifer Aniston plays a woman grappling with chronic pain, painkiller addiction, and personal tragedy.

"...collective grief over the suicide of former group member Nina (Kendrick). Maybe it’s just the pills and the pain..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Finding the Write Word

Nina Marie Martínez and Liliana Valenzuela

"...Among these is one on translation, which brings California-based Nina Marie Martínez, author of Caramba! (now out in paperback..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Broken English

"...Kiwi director-writer Nicholas (Avondale Dogs) centers on young lovers Nina and Eddie -- he's a native Maori, she's the..."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal gives a terrifically fierce performance as a tenacious and delusional self-actualizer.

"...camera and a police scanner, then a news producer Nina (Russo) interested in buying his better clips, then an..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Oranges

The great ensemble cast is the highlight of this movie about a 50-year-old man who falls in love with his best friend's daughter, who is half his age.

"...adapt to the responsibilities of adult life. So when Nina Ostroff (Meester) arrives home for Thanksgiving after five years..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Chinese women's relationships in the past and the present are told in parallel stories in this film based on Lisa See's bestselling novel.

"...bound on the same day. Their descendants, Sophia and Nina (Jun and Li again) are childhood friends who try..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Adam's Rib

"...that hangs over her bed. Her twice-divorced, middle-aged daughter Nina (Churikova) works in a museum, and remains thoroughly jaded..."

Oct. 9, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Seagull

Chekhov's tale of Muscovite misery takes unsteady flight.

"...Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, fatalistically romantic ingénue Nina gives artistically struggling writer Konstantin a piece of tough-love..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

ABCD

"...Indian-American family headed by arch-traditionalist mother, Anju (Joffrey). Daughter Nina (Sheth, who eerily suggests a DNA fusion experiment involving..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Dog Days

By-the-numbers summer rom-com has more going for it than just puppers

"...Directed by: Ken Marino. Starring: Nina Dobrev, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wolfhard, Eva Longoria, Tig Notaro..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Gay Place: Big Blue Body

GIAC's Nina Diaz is her own dang thang

"...She's a big gal now, pals. Nina Diaz, whom most of us know as the wildcat..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

The original girl detective makes a modern return

"...Screenwriters Nina Fiore and John Herrera have modernized Keene’s decades-old storyline..."

March 15, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Zach Theatre's Tribes

Nina Raine's award-winning drama explores the different forms of language and how we understand each other

"...For Zach Theatre's production of Nina Raine's script, Producing Artistic Director Dave Steakley has gathered..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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