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March 11, 2022 Movie Review
Short & Sweet: "First Down"
AFf documentary short tackles girls breaking into football
"...to play a traditionally male-dominated sport has helped young women, especially those living with deep trauma...."
Oct. 26, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
"Melanie Clemmons: Likes Charge"
This solo exhibition at Women & Their Work conjures digital comfort in troubled times
"...Although "your internet" is, of course, everybody's internet – because it's that putative Al Gore invention, the TimBL-activated..."
Sept. 11, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
ICE Quietly Renews 10-Year Contract With T. Don Hutto Detention Center
Taylor prison houses largely asylum-seeking women and has been the subject of numerous accusations of abuse
"...of the conditions in its Texas detention centers, U.S. Immigra­tion and Customs Enforcement quietly renewed a 10-year contract with..."
Aug. 21, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Opinion: A Crisis of Leadership in the D.A.’s Office
The women behind the sexual assault class action litigation are still waiting for meaningful change
"...is in a run-off election on July 14 with José Garza for the job. We write this open letter..."
July 10, 2020 Column by Sexual Assault Survivors
SXSW Selection The Toll Keeps Rolling
As special screenings are added, we talk to the filmmakers
"...they are not always the safest – especially for women. That's the core of the Toll, a SXSW Midnighter..."
March 12, 2020 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf
"Tia J. Boyd: Future Inhabitants" at the Carver
Tia J. Boyd's photographic portraits of warrior women reveal the subjects' power and beauty in a post-postapocalyptic world
"...ourselves out), leaving a cleansed Earth overseen by warrior women who have transcended humanity and become divine. The poster..."
Dec. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Texas Book Festival 2019:
Finding Their Power
Finding Their Power
Two authors mine the past for tales of queer sisterhood
"...and the story of a group of queer Uruguayan women creating a sanctuary where they can escape persecution in..."
Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires
One Child Nation
Inside China’s 36-year war on women’s bodies
"...In addition to sterilizations, there were late-term abortions against women’s wills and widespread abandonment of female infants (so that..."
Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
WWC Days 1-4: First Round Goes to Europe
U.S. opener tomorrow afternoon, as European teams dominate WWC early
"...first matches for all 24 teams at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France...."
June 10, 2019 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro
Booksmart
The kids are better than alright in Olivia Wilde's raucous, resonant comedy
"...bond can sometimes feel like a burden as both women prepare for college. Feldstein’s Molly is the alpha: class..."
May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Beach Bum
Fear and loathing in Florida with Korine and Matthew McConaughey
"...smokes a joint in a hammock, surrounded by naked women, with two hands on a bongo drum and a..."
March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Dan Gentile
Gloria Bell
Julianne Moore excels (as always) in this funny, poignant character study
"...And that word “trying” is important, because this takes work. No, not that kind of work, though we do..."
March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Level 16
Horror mystery used dread in a tale of the lies we tell young women
"...it’s made clear that the teenagers can’t even spell their own names) is that the girls, orphans presumably, will..."
March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White
Unbridled
Religion and horses are insufficient therapy for this abuse drama
"...counselors in Unbridled, a private program that helps young women overcome trauma by caring for rescued horses. Here Sarah..."
Feb. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Stan & Ollie
Coogan and Reilly breathe tender life into the Hollywood icons
"...The golden era Hollywood comedy duo Laurel & Hardy are certainly not getting the step-by-step biopic treatment..."
Jan. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White
The Front Runner
Jason Reitman revisits a long-ago time when a sex scandal could ruin a candidate's shot at the presidency
"...Working from a screenplay he wrote with Jay Carson and..."
Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Asia in Winter
Austin Asian American Film Festival celebrates women in cinema
"...appropriate as all four films featured are stories about women and – with one exception – by women...."
Nov. 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Shalavé Cawley
Studio 54
The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub
"...Seventies, the decade in between the popular rise of women’s liberation and the gay rights movement in the Sixties..."
Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup
Fall is full of fairs and fests
"...Fall colors and women’s undergarments are showing as the temperatures become ideal for..."
Oct. 1, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod
Support the Girls
The hidden rules of life in Andrew Bujalksi's breastaurant comedy
"...film, drops us into the world of service industry workers (chaos wranglers, no doubt) via a day in the..."
Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White
Abortion Gag Rule
Trump's war on women's health continues
"...Gilead, the Trump administration last Friday made good on their promise to defund Planned Parenthood by proposing a so-called..."
May 25, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Disobedience
Rachel Weisz explores the complexities and joys of choice in Britain's Jewish communities.
"...chart one’s own destiny is not equally afforded to women in patriarchal institutions such as Orthodox Judaism, an inequity..."
May 11, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Hustle for the Cause Debuts Chingona Fest ATX
Promoting diversity with a little help from beer
"...Less than 10% of all venture capital goes to women, LGBTQ community members, and people of color. On April..."
April 2, 2018 Food Post by Clara Wang
SXSW Film Review: Support the Girls
Andrew Bujalski sets a feminist comedy in a sexy sports bar? Bold move.
"...It delivers a glimpse into the complex lives of working-class American women … along with a couple good butt..."
March 10, 2018 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno
Sisters Are Cookin’ It for Yourselves
International Women’s Day (and beyond) highlights female chefs
"...Some idiot somewhere opined that women can never be half the chefs that men are..."
March 8, 2018 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Half Magic
Heather Graham turns director in empowerment comedy
"...little more than nibble on the ubiquitous sexism that women experience, without really chomping down on its ugliness. You..."
Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis
2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B
Horror and hope in America's underdog communities
"...County, W.V., the overdose capital of the U.S. Three women are on the front lines: Fire Chief Jan Rader,..."
Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Phantom Thread
Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson reunite for one last glamorous yet muscular tale
"...to imagine a certain strain of PTA fans clutching their pearls at the first trailer for Phantom Thread, a..."
Jan. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Breadwinner
A young girl tries to provide for her family in Afghanistan
"...by the Taliban for possessing “forbidden” books and teaching women to read. Dressed in her dead brother’s old clothes,..."
