Fat Girl

"...sex, as is the case in her latest, Fat Girl, a story of virginity lost. Titled À Ma Soeur!..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tank Girl

A movie that combines Busby Berkeley chorus lines with killer mutant kangaroos and the wildest female action hero this side of La Femme Nikita.

"...Hewlett and Alan Martin's neo-underground cult comic book Tank Girl comes to life looking, amazingly, exactly like it ought..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

On the Cutting Edge: Four Short Films About Violence Against Women

"...short, experimental films that all examine the topic of violence against women. Beyond this shared theme, they all have..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tonight's Your Last Chance to See 'Girl Rising'

'One girl with courage is a revolution'

"...Girl Rising is a story of big dreams. The feature..."

May 2, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Review: black girl love: an adaptation project

GenEnCo play emphasizes range of gender roles, relationships

"...Adapted from Anondra Williams' poetry and prose, black girl love rips open the current void in representation of..."

June 18, 2019 Arts Post by Lilli Hime

A Question of Compassion for Travis County's Family Violence Court

A woman alleged rape. The man she accused went free. Should his attorney run our court?

"...seeking election as the judge of Travis County's family violence court – tried to circumvent state rape shield laws...."

June 19, 2020 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Girl Talk

A Focus Group

"...of that research is focus groups, in which teen girls play with Girl Games products and talk about the..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Austin V-Day: Victory over violence with the 'Vagina' and its author, Eve

Eve Ensler joins Austin in the fight to stop violence against women and girls

"...If you've ever known a woman or a girl who has been a victim of violence, or you're..."

March 14, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Confronting Intimate Violence: A Dress Speaks: Heeding the Voice

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin.

"...don't always apply in this era of widespread domestic violence. Home isn't always sweet, sad to say. Silence can..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Girl Crazy

Austin Women Taking Center Stage

"...Theatre Center and Frontera/Hyde Park Theatre, both, coincidentally, with "girl" in their title: the musical Dreamgirls by Tom Eyens..."

May 12, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest Review: The Girl With All the Gifts

A post-apocalyptic world that really grows on (or in) you

"...The Girl With All the Gifts, the new survival horror adapted..."

Sept. 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Breaking the Cycle

Schools move to end teen dating violence

"...A conversation about teen dating violence is long overdue, according to the numbers. Love Is..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Border Violations

What happened to the thousands of unaccompanied children who crossed the U.S. border last year?

"...– Amnesty International reported in 2010 that 60% of girls and women crossing from Central America to the U.S...."

April 3, 2015 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Only God Forgives

Drive's Nicolas Winding Refn reunites again with Ryan Gosling and adds Kristin Scott Thomas to the mix for this descent into heartlessness.

"...personally, my reaction is not terribly forgiving. The film’s violence is wicked, its performances bereft of emotion or compassion,..."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Assassination Nation

Dark satire lets social media tear us apart

"...comparison the film seems glad to bear) are four girls at a high school in Salem, Mass. Lily (Young)..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Trauma defines these glimpses into other real lives

"...being tossed back into a world of persecution and violence is too much for some children, who instead block..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Enough

"...when she's a steely warrior poking holes in the pretty-girl veneer. That's why it's such a kick when Slim..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Before the Rain

Manchevski's debut film impresses with its cagey temporal structure, incredible cinematography that exposes the precipitous Macedonian landscape, beautiful performances, and a thematic structure that adds to our understanding of specific and universal issues.

"...has taken a vow of silence. A young Albanian girl takes refuge at his monastery and the consequences prove..."

April 14, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicka

Girls and their horses. They're grist for this new update of Mary O'Hara's beloved novel My Friend Flicka.

"...Roberts. Does the world need another movie about a girl and her horse? If only someone would have posed..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Villains

Delicious black comedy finds bad guys in a battle of the generations

"...car. Instead, they find themselves caught between a little girl chained in the basement and a white-collar couple (Donovan..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Devil's Rejects

A viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-‘n’-wreckage-romance.

"...atrocities that’d have Norman Bates shrieking like a little girl. The Devil’s Rejects fairly spurts off the screen like..."

July 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Very Bad Things

"...binging on liquor, cocaine, and, eventually, a high-priced call girl. Although Kyle nixes the traditional sleep-with-the-hooker idea, Michael has..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...that there is quite a bit of sex and violence in the following piece, so young children and people..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Bad Guy

Early film from South Korea's enfant terrible Kim Ki-duk is a coarse and distubing drama about obsessive love.

"...tale that uses minimal dialogue, striking imagery, and vivid violence to weave a depressing portrait of obsessive love and..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Happiness of the Katakuris

Katakuris is something of a departure for Miike, seeing as how it's chock-full of robust romance and – we kid you not – musical numbers. While this is ultimately a crazy meditation on family values and the like, it's still mind-bogglingly goofy filmmaking, at once deeply moving and deeply annoying.

"...smack upside the head with the psycho stick. Psychotic violence, twisted love, and genuinely creepy characters are par for..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

"...literally. That conscience, belonging to the 19-year-old illiterate peasant girl Jean (Jovovich), crops up midway through, after a frazzled..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Small Town Crime

John Hawkes hits the bottle and the case as a modern day detective on the trail for redemption

"...inner cop comes back when he finds a dying girl, dumped by the side of the road...."

Jan. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Getaway

Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez try, but they can't getaway from this action mess.

"...Early on, a young girl (Gomez) tries to take the car away from him...."

Aug. 30, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Hell Ride

This grindhousey biker film, executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino, is a convoluted, overly snazzy-looking tale of bad blood between even worse people.

"...with the whole ride, mystical peyote journeys, naked Suicide Girl wannabes, and crazed displays of overly art-directed violence. But..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Body Shots

"...O'Connell and Sean Patrick Flanery. “Sex without love equals violence.” That's the bleak thesis lashing around at the bottom..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

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