The Young Mothers’ Jazz Oppression

Free all-stars break down onerous systems

"...entire planet,” by Chronicle Music newsman Kevin Curtin, the Young Mothers create a musical melting pot of free jazz,..."

June 11, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland

Mothers, Grandmothers & Others

Pam Hart performs with McCallum Fine Arts Academy Orchestra

"...the McCallum Fine Arts Academy Orchestra in honor of mothers, grandmothers, and all the other women that make our..."

May 8, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

FLDS Hearings Turn on Ages of Mothers

Fallout from West Texas raid continues

"...their unborn children. Now, the ages of 24 other young mothers are also in dispute, according to AP reports...."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

True Mothers

Japanese adoption drama gets tangled up in melodrama

"...eyesight in Radiance; and now, her latest film, True Mothers, is about teenagers who become pregnant, and the families..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Those Mothers!

High-court ruling favors mothers over the Lone Star State

"...of Appeals ruled May 22 in favor of 38 mothers, all members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ..."

May 30, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Mothers and Sons

Zach Theatre's exquisite staging of Terrence McNally's drama speaks to families of all kinds

"...company," clanking glasses, and divulged family secrets. Zach Theatre's Mothers and Sons might come across that way at first..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Levitation Review: Wooden Shjips, Acid Mothers Temple, ST 37, Yoo Doo Right

The ABCs of psychedelia

"...A young quartet from Montreal titled in tribute to krautrock pioneers..."

April 30, 2018 Music Post by Michael Toland

Texas Supreme Court Backs FLDS Mothers

Children reunite with parents in wake of Supremes' decision

"...April in removing the 126 children belonging to 38 mothers from the FLDS' West Texas compound. The state had..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Filigree Theatre's When We Were Young and Unafraid

Sarah Treem's drama revisits a time not that long ago when American women were controlled

"...A young, abused wife hides out on an impenetrable island. An..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Young, Strong, and Getting Stronger

The Austin Film Festival Turns 10

"...KleptoD: Thomas Trail; with Meredith Bishop, Jsu Garcia; Leigh Taylor-Young, Henry Czerny..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Some Mother's Son

"...political elements of the story. The principals are two young IRA “soldiers,” Gerard Quigley (Gillen) and Frank Higgins (O’Hara),..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Alias Betty

"...is either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

African Cats

Lions and cheetahs in the African savanna look lovely onscreen but are imbued with human emotions.

"...to be merciless bullies and fanged carnivores. And if young children are disturbed by African Cats, I’m not sure..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Osama

The first feature to come out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, Osama tells the story of a girl who masquerades as a boy.

"...madrassa where she has only one ally, a wild-eyed young boy who has guessed her secret but for some..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Incendies

A powerful and eloquent anti-war drama, this French-Canadian film unites the personal with the political in a stunning manner.

"...interweaves episodes of Jeanne’s search with others of Nawal’s young-adult life in this country. Many surprises surface but not..."

June 3, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Joy Luck Club

"...and an eternal story about the interlinked boundaries between mothers and daughters. Genes, cultural identity, compensatory behaviors, sins of..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mars Needs Moms

Based on a children's book by Berkely Breathed, this animated film looks good but lacks emotion.

"...unstated needs for nurturance and mothering. Martians, apparently, need mothers, too, but in the animated Mars Needs Moms, the..."

March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tupac: Resurrection

More popular dead than alive, the hip-hop Tupac Shakur is remembered in this authorized documentary.

"...paints a picture of a fiercely talented and contradictory young man who, more than anything else, wanted to live..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Playback: The Healing Hand of Jonathan Horne

Following the free jazz guitar phenom as he undergoes hand surgery

"...2004 include: Steve Albini-produced Plutonium Farmers and jazz/rap/grindcore unit Young Mothers – both alongside Norwegian bass phenom Ingebrigt Håker..."

July 27, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...Bujalski. You got return trips from SXSW alums Ry Russo-Young (You Won't Miss Me), Lynn Shelton (Humpday), and Alex..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Polishing His ACT

L.A.-Ex Gary Goldstein Brings Real News to Kids

"...High school girls are either pregnant or moonlighting as mothers. In response to the almost epidemic proportions of Johnston's..."

July 5, 1996 Screens Feature

Asenath Andrews: 'A Place Where People Know Us'

Detroit's Catherine Ferguson Academy has a 90% graduation rate with pregnant teens

"...Academy, and her school accepts only pregnant teens and young mothers. So she's fighting for both mother and child...."

March 1, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Exploding Girl

Zoe Kazan stars in this perfectly paced movie about a 20-year-old home from college for the week.

"...friend named Al (Rendall), an unsure but unfailingly decent young man who broadcasts from his first quickly swallowed smile..."

May 14, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...But for the assistance of Mathilde (de Laâge), a young French Red Cross intern who agrees to secretly treat..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Twelve

The private-school kids on New York's Upper East Side are definitely not all right in Joel Schumacher's sordid tale of young promise gone wrong.

"...is – how tone deaf it is to its young protagonists and how vapid its ersatz production design seems...."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gimme Shelter

Vanessa Hudgeons stars in this bland exercise in very serious and meaningful young-adult drama.

"...An exercise in very serious and meaningful young-adult drama, Gimme Shelter is so overloaded with simplistic good..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Prime

With genuine sparks between its two lovestruck leads and a delightfully flinchy performance from Meryl Streep, this comedy is just what its title implies: prime.

"...Directed by: Ben Younger. Starring: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Losing Chase

"...another, alternately enraging and puzzling her husband and two young sons. After a particularly public and frightening “scene” atop..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 18-20

Soundtracking this weekend’s sweat-fests

"...the Asteroid and Suckling open. – Kevin Curtin The Young Mothers..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Music Post by James Renovitch

Trading Mom

"...of concerns, fears and resentments that only the very young experience. The three kids in this story see themselves..."

March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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