Dismantling Family Planning

Advocates say a state Senate budget rider would cripple delivery of health care to poor women

"...Family planning advocates are decrying a new state Senate budget..."

March 17, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

ATX Television Fest: Structure of a Sitcom... and the Rise of Anti-Sitcoms

Comedy magic with Dan Harmon, Paul Scheer, and more

"...creative output of the panelists participating in Friday afternoon’s Structure of a Sitcom... and the Rise of Anti-Sitcoms session..."

June 8, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Pity the Family-Planning Clinic

Budget rider targets specific family-planning operations

"...week ("Low-Income Women Could Take a Hit," March 20), family-planning advocates are up in arms over a proposed state..."

March 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Rob Zombie Resurrects the Firefly Family for 3 From Hell

Here to do the devil's work: Director talks how being cool is no excuse

"...introduced the world to the murderous, cannibalistic, necrophiliac Firefly family in 2003's psychotronic trip House of 1000 Corpses. Wildly..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

One Big, Happy Family

Local TV News: There to Help You

"...that the broadcasts are set up like a surrogate family, with mommy and daddy (the anchors), the friendly uncle..."

July 5, 1996 News Column by Chris Walters

One Family Won't Abandon Ship: The Last Holdout

"...towing company and has raised two generations of his family. Until someone makes the right offer, that is...."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Council Mulls Radical Changes to Police Structure

Reimagining public safety – and how to pay for it

"...Flannigan's restructure would create departments of patrol, investigations, traffic safety, and..."

July 31, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Olivier, Olivier

"...story's about: how his absence unravels this supposedly idyllic family structure. Olivier lives with his mom, dad and sister..."

May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The House of Lepore Brings Ballroom to the Austin Club Scene

The family that slays together …

"...What makes a family? For many in the Texas queer community, family isn't..."

June 23, 2023 Arts Feature by James Scott

Fire

"...Jaaved Jaaferi and Kushal Rekhi. Fire is a hothouse family melodrama with radical social underpinnings. Set in a New..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...questions raised during CodeNEXT: How should compatibility standards between single-family homes and other uses be determined; how much parking..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Common Law

Does McMansion Ordinance affect home remodels?

"...a remodel increases the size of a duplex or single-family structure, the structure's size after the remodel is limited..."

March 10, 2006 Column by Luke Ellis

The Myth of Fingerprints

"...Vartan, James Legros, Arija Bareikis and Brian Kerwin. A family reunites for the Thanksgiving holiday: Instead of turkey, The..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shorts

A magic wishing rock becomes the undoing of an entire community in this appealing new kids romp from Robert Rodriguez.

"...Howard and Rebel Rodriguez. This time around it’s another family film for Rodriguez, whose filmmaking career at this point..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Daytrippers

"...observantly written and wonderfully performed piece that gets inside family life and finds the little moments of universal recognizability...."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sunday's Children

"...movie directed by Bille August, Bergman examined his matrilineal family dynamics and the troubled relationship of his parents immediately..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Blue Kite

"...“re-education.” Although the focus of the film is Tietou's family, which includes various relatives and a small collection of..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

A Home of Our Own

"...for the home she wants for herself and her family. She persuades the friendly Japanese-American farmer (Oh) to sell..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

One True Thing

"...magma of our dramatic bedrock. The retreads in the family drama cycle are as old and deep as civilization..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

When You Finish Saving the World

Underwhelming adaptation of Jesse Eisenberg's neurotic audio drama

"...drama of the same name, a three-hander featuring a family at three stages of their shared and disconnected lives..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Namesake

Mira Nair's complex meditation on family, relationships, and identity traces the saga of two generations of an Indian-American family, as outlined in Jhumpa Lahiri's bestselling novel.

"...Namesake is beautiful and engaging. A complex meditation on family, relationships, and identity, the film traces two generations of..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Good Shepherd

Matt Damon abandons the cat-and-mouse theatrics of his Bourne identity to play the reserved fictional functionary whose life serves as the prism through which this film examines the early years of the CIA.

"...narrative. Adding to his difficulty is the film's nonlinear structure, which jumps around in time for scenes from Wilson's..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond the Sea

More "Splish" than "Splash," this biopic about the life of pop crooner Bobby Darin is practically a one-man Kevin Spacey show.

"...becomes worn and repetitive. That’s because the film’s narrative structure – a flashback structure in which the artist revisits..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

21 Grams

Powerful performances resonate in this devastating and weighty follow-up picture from the director of Amores Perros.

"...X causes Y, which causes Z – but the structure of 21 Grams intentionally obscures that simplicity. The film..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Come Undone

"...that flows from the quicksilver editing and tripartite narrative structure. Director and co-scribe Lifshitz flashes back and forward between..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker

"...and there are no male heirs to inherit the family business, Chun Zhi, in keeping with feudal traditions, is..."

July 21, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

"...is distinct: the world of Chicano migrant workers. Marcos' family lives in Crystal City, Texas, but every year they..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Bad Lieutenant

"...admires the bodies of female corpses, treats his suburban family with contempt, bets himself into spiraling debt with the..."

Feb. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Mother's Castle

"...Mother's Castle is a rosy, kid's-eye view of his family, with special focus on his mother. This narrator's childhood..."

Oct. 18, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unforgettable

Another round of a psycho ex from hell

"...brings to the table is a nod to shifting family dynamics. In past films, the villain is always an..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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