South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...his traditional Indian parents must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist-boyfriend and helping them plan the most fabulous Indian wedding..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Zach Theatre’s A Christmas Carol

Boisterous but shallow jukebox musical of the Dickens classic misses opportunities

"...fact that they were singing this to a sickly orphan in a time of rampant child mortality. Furthermore, the..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Arts Feature by Jasmine Lane

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

YA epic's prequel can't catch the book's inner fire

"...outer self. Without that insight, Snow’s evolution from war-scarred orphan to what Donald Sutherland is playing in the original..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Emerald Fennell and the Hideous Allure of Saltburn

Director’s aristocratic follow-up to Promising Young Woman opens Austin Film Festival

"...Saltburn, the story of two Oxford students – poor orphan Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) and gilded aristocrat Felix Catton..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Knights of the Zodiac

Overstuffed adaptation of smash manga Saint Seiya

"...Seiya (Mackenyu), an orphan who’s made his own way through life on the..."

May 19, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Smoking Causes Coughing

Rubber director's sentai spoof is weird, discursive magic

"...where there’s some big secret at stake, like the orphan child is really an adult or the whole movie..."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Black Adam

The Rock joins the DC Universe as the shadowy version of Superman

"...pictures such as the House of Wax remake and Orphan, and energetic Liam Neeson actioners of the 2010s like..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 2-8

"...behind a tree and cried out, 'I am an orphan.'" Over the years, though, O'Hara underwent a marvelous transformation...."

Sept. 2, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Orphan: First Kill

The cuckoo's nest classic gets a gruesome and surprising prequel

"...When 2009 cuckoo's nest horror Orphan revealed its brain-bending twist, audiences were left genuinely gobsmacked...."

Aug. 19, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Luck

Animated adventure is a bright if undemanding pleasure

"...Traditionally in fantastical cartoons aimed at small children, orphans turn out to be monarchs in hiding or magical..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Five Arts Events for Wannabe Time Travelers

Journey into the past (and to one nightmarish future) with these dazzlers

"...1899 – when Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway "newsies" on a two-week action against Pulitzer,..."

July 29, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Deer King

Gorgeous epic fantasy anime replaces combat with compassion

"...An orphan. A widower. A doctor. The trio are the unlikely..."

July 15, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Five Live Performances to Make You Laugh and Think

From musical spoofs to Broadway classics, the best of the Austin stage

"...1899, when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway "newsies" on a two-week action against Pulitzer,..."

July 8, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Panic Fest 2022: Woodland Grey

Fear in the forest in this subtle psychological horror

"...with a mysterious past (Ryan Blakely, best known as Orphan Black's Reverend Mike), and Emily (Jenny Raven). She disturbs..."

May 18, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: The Last Thing Mary Saw

A nightmare in nineteenth century New York

"...Last Key) and her family's maid, Eleanor (Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan). The era of witchburning is long gone, so subtler..."

Aug. 17, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jungle Cruise

Take the Disney ride with Emily Blunt and the Rock, straight to adventure

"...capacities. Director Jaume Collet-Serra, an old hand at horror (Orphan, House of Wax), earns the film’s PG-13 rating with..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Playwright Carlo Lorenzo García Paints His Mother's Sacrifice

A Portrait of My Mother staged by Jarrott Productions, depicts maternal perseverance in loving strokes

"...young María Guadalupe suffered this life of a Dickensian orphan. Small wonder, then, that she was desperate to run..."

July 9, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

12 Mighty Orphans

Historical football drama can't get past first down

"...“Stay down in the dirt where you belong, loser orphan” is a line that is shouted on the football..."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Luke Wilson Plays a Long and Lonely Game in 12 Mighty Orphans

The story behind the period drama about Texas' most unlikely high school football heroes

"...script for true-life Great Depression sporting biopic 12 Mighty Orphans, he'd never heard of Rusty Russell. "Somehow the story..."

June 11, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Violet Evergarden: The Movie

The Auto Memory Doll finally writes her own story

"...lot of anime, the eponymous Violet (Ishikawa) is an orphan, found in the wastes of a war that decimated..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva

Anything can happen in the wonderfully weird Ukraine of this short story collection

"...through their characters: Zaya, first seen as a 4-year-old orphan with a cleft lip who makes her escape from..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Other Lamb

Cult drama revisits, rather than revises, an old narrative

"...ewe who has had a stillbirth to adopt an orphan or a rejected twin: skin her baby, and tie..."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Turning

Henry James' creepy classic resurrected yet again

"...is sent to care for a pair of aristocratic orphans, Miles and Flora (Wolfhard and Prince). However she soon..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Meteor Turns a Convenience Store Into a Neighborhood Hang for a New South Congress

Before and after noon, diners find craveable carbs and chill vibes

"...iced tea was made with leaves harvested by Peruvian orphan llamas and brewed with unicorn tears...."

Jan. 31, 2020 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Ip Man 4: The Finale

The adventures of the martial arts legend come to an end ... possibly.

"...safe for his son, who will soon be an orphan. Ip, like his late wife, has cancer and is..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Little Women

Relish the contemporary touches in this new version of Alcott’s classic

"...but immature, a dandy in slightly overlarge suits, an orphan looking longingly at the chaotic, battering affection the March..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Playmobil: The Movie

Toys and film franchises, toys and film franchises ...

"...But apparently Marla’s permanently stressed state as a tragic orphan, dutiful guardian, and sole breadwinner isn’t fun enough for..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pain, Pathos, and Prescience: The Work of Agnieszka Holland

AFS and Austin Polish Film Festival celebrate the Polish pioneer

"...boy who fled Germany and ended up in an orphanage in Soviet-occupied eastern Poland, where he becomes a fanatical..."

Oct. 22, 2019 Screens Post by Anne S. Lewis

Luce

High school drama becomes an indictment of “either/or” culture

"...a young man destined for great things, a war orphan being raised in suburbia by doting parents. But that’s..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How Rooster Teeth Built Meaningful Diversity Into gen:LOCK

Austin studio emphasizes representation in its animated show

"...casting process, they had approached Tatiana Maslany, star of Orphan Black. In that show, Maslany had played multiple clones..."

July 10, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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