SXSW Panel Recap: The Female Gaze

Women get shit done on set

"...as panelist moderator for the Monday afternoon panel, “The Female Gaze,” featuring directors Kestrin Pantera (Mother’s Little Helpers), Karen..."

March 12, 2019 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

Ms. Veteran America's Mission to End Female Veteran Homelessness

Molly Potter raises awareness for mental health issues

"...I hadn't had that, I would have been another female veteran with mental health issues that had left the..."

Sept. 23, 2016 News Feature by Annamarya Scaccia

Taking the John Waters Route to Female Sexuality in Fucktoys

SXSW narrative competition film embraces the “kinky and smutty and a little slutty”

"...don’t come. Get the fuck out. This is a female-led movie. This is our reclamation of our voice, our..."

March 14, 2025 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

M. Butterfly

"...Opera diva (Lone). That men traditionally play all the female roles in Beijing Opera is a fact that seems..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Am Divine

Harris Glenn Milstead, the actor better known as the 300-pound sex symbol named Divine who appeared in those early John Waters' movies, is remembered in this doc.

"...simply recite the dialogue in mondo trasho classics like Female Trouble and Pink Flamingos – she spewed it like..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Acting Out and Causing Trouble

The works in "Difficult Daughters," the final installation in the Blanton Museum of Art's "Projections" series of contemporary films, show women acting out and causing trouble, but they also demonstrate how women of different generations approach feminism.

"...Daughters," a collection of films by emerging and established female artists opening this week, is a nod to Simone..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Molly Beth Brenner

The Good Eye: Allies in the Industry

Giving Austin actresses a seat at the table

"...personally thanked Mars and Weber for naming all the female characters and not writing physical descriptions of them into..."

March 27, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

The Good Eye: Tales From the Beauty Box

Side-eyeing the confines of female film roles

"...expressing her personal frustration over the lack of nuanced roles for actresses. "Women," she wrote, "are so desperate to..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Where the Rivers Flow North

"...homesteader-developer conflicts and inserting one-note stereotypes in the villainous roles (Fox, Raymond). What the drama's weakness leaves us with,..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dead Girl

The filmmaker and an all-star cast create this somber murder mystery that has little mystery but is filled with a deep foreboding about the anguish that dominates some women's lives.

"...each one focusing on how the murder affects various female characters, whose relationships to the dead girl are not..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad Education

Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.

"...to "cherchez la femme": Here "la femme" is a male-to-female transsexual. The storyline is appropriately convoluted and dark, and..."

Feb. 4, 2005 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.

"...disturbingly illogical. Mars is a planet run by giant-hipped females under the rule of the cronelike Supervisor (Sterling). Male..."

March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ocean's 8

Sandra Bullock is the other Ocean sibling in this all-female revamp of the heist franchise

"...meeting up with partner-in-crime Lou (Blanchett), and assembling an all-female team to pull off a diamond heist at the..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Boys Club

Female employees say gender discrimination persists at City Hall. Could a new resolution fix the broken system?

"...before the city and in interviews with the Chronicle, female city employees underscore a pattern of institutional discrimination, a..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Insidious: Chapter 3

The original screenwriter of the horror franchise assumes the direction of this supernatural prequel

"...Lin Shaye in a starring role. Credited with supporting roles in nearly 200 movies and TV shows, the incredibly..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

"...a similar tone in appraisal of her other film roles, many of which were directed by Seberg's three husbands...."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Whale Rider

This quietly powerful tale of youthful female empowerment in New Zealand is based on a cornerstone Maori myth.

"...of a whale, this quietly powerful tale of youthful female empowerment is a pitch-perfect example of how to craft..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Norbit

The three personas Eddie Murphy adopts in this film literally fill the screen, but the script doesn't serve his multidimensional talents.

"...not be too far off the mark. Unlike the female characters Murphy portrayed in The Nutty Professor and its..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Play it to the Bone

"...the underdevelopment of their characters, are good in their roles, each of them capable of the strong physicality demanded..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Princess Caraboo

"...Hughes, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow and Stephen Rea. A female vagrant (Cates) appears suddenly in the British town of..."

Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Erotique

"...callers and she refuses to play the wordless prostitute roles that the casting agents offer her. The story's appeal..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

"Lesbian Vampires"

"...candidate defending her dissertation. She drily dissects the metaphoric roles of women as victims/demons in horror films and world..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk

"...infest Ching dynasty China (not to mention that both roles seem virtually created for the ever-impressive, though improbably named,..."

Sept. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand gives a searing performance as vengeance personified

"...this first film for which McDonagh has written leading roles for female characters...."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grappling With GLOW

Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin on the Netflix wrestling drama

"...that of the real-life Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. An all-female pro-wrestling promotion that ran from 1985 to 1992, it..."

June 23, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ghostbusters

Controversy aside, this reboot fails to hit the mark

"...record their first encounter with a paranormal something, the all-female quartet hightails it back to headquarters to read the..."

July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Craig's Wife, Harriet Craig, The Little Foxes

Stephen MacMillan Moser celebrates those glamorous, backstabbing, deliciously bitchy divas: Rosalind Russell in Craig's Wife; Joan Crawford in the remake of that film, Harriet Craig; and Bette Davis in The Little Foxes.

"...big queen, has written one of the all-time great female roles, one that any actress would give her eyeteeth..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

If It's Summer, It Must Be Shakespeare

Summer is the time for Shakespeare, so naturally here are a couple of the Bard's plays being staged in the Austin area -- Julius Caesar from the Austin Shakespeare Festival and Two Gentlemen of Verona from Different Stages -- and directors Paul Norton and Norman Blumensaadt to explain how they came to produce them this season.

"...all of them. Shakespeare just didn't write very many female roles. We wanted to redress the balance. Guy mentioned..."

June 27, 2003 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Guest by Courtesy

Etiquette takes a pratfall in this comic battle for control between cousins

"...the piece who also plays one of the two female roles, most likely drew her inspiration from the book..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

The Red Violin

A special violin is traced over three centuries and multiple owners and countries.

"...fuck are you doing? Hopefully, a deuce of muddled roles -- first as Star Wars' Jedi Master Mace Windu,..."

June 25, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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