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Hollywood, Motherhood, and a Dash of Glamour
Two burlesque shows, two very different concepts
"...carpet, the old Busby Berkeley musicals and the over-the-top glamour of that."..."

Nov. 15, 2014 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Sparking a Glamour Riot at the Capitol
Peter Rapp brings living memory to Austin Pride's Stonewall event

June 26, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him
"...– oddly fitting for the master of menace and glamour, as Newton smashed his car into a wall on..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Knife + Heart
Perfect postmodernism among Paris' porn scene in this retro-giallo
"...of other potential influences as well. There’s a seedy glamour and a noir sensibility that owes as much to..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Generation Wealth
Greed isn't good. But didn't we know that already?
"...in her photography and films: She explores glitz & glamour but also probes the unsavory depths of their true..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Allied
WWII espionage thriller can't hold a candle to Casablanca
"...the always interesting Cotillard evokes a modicum of movie-star glamour as the film’s woman of mystery, the stony-faced Pitt..."

Nov. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Oculus
A dark force lurks in the looking glass in this paranormal outing that's a notch above, but barely.
"...downright cloudy in comparison. For all its darkly reflective glamour, however, the increasingly knotty narrative eventually strains even genre..."

April 11, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar goes glam. No, really. You should go to Facebook and see the pictures.
"...High on that glamour, Jon Jon and I were already making plans for..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Bogus
"...with whom he raptly watches all the backstage glitz, glamour, and magic. After his mom dies in a car..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Captain Ron
"...a too-tan, navy-emblazoned yacht broker. The Wanderer evokes the glamour of a bygone era and the sailing scenes perfectly..."

Sept. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Pictures From a Revolution
"...and Meiselas', is that they can't reconcile the violent glamour of the revolution with the death of all hope..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Chris Walters

Austin Bergstrom's Continuing Expansion
New terminal restores some 1950s glamour to the airport
"...service through Allegiant Air, is to restore some 1950s glamour to the increasingly tiresome task of air travel. This..."

May 5, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bright Lights, Little City
It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.
"...time for a new look, one that matched the glamour of talkies, and so a new Palace was born...."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion
Follow a local dress as it makes it way off the bolt, into an Austin boutique, and across the country to Hollywood for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Morton's!
"...AUSTIN GLAMOUR IN HOLLYWOOD Nobody knows Hollywood like Vanity Fair knows..."

April 13, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List
Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot
"...The panel will be moderated by Jessica Radloff from Glamour Magazine...."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Big Hair, Big Stars, and a Mechanical Bull
Previewing the 2008 Texas Film Hall of Fame
"...from the gritty working-class nightlife at Gilley's to the glamour of Morgan Fairchild...."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Exxing the Exes
Glamour hears from an ex-ex-gay recoverer.
"...This month's Glamour (did I just "out" myself in some weird way?..."

April 11, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

After a Fashion
All that Stephen Allows.
"...hard to beat a Douglas Sirk production for silver-screen glamour. A tribute to Sirk by the Austin Film Society..."

June 9, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Coffeetable Books
Dream On
"...Fabulous Las Vegas in the 50s: Glitz, Glamour & Gamesby Fred E. Basten and Charles Phoenix..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Feature by Katherine Catmull

Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?
Film Folios and Screen Prints
"...kinship - the hyperbolic sexuality, theatricality, cult status, and glamour they shared."..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

The Taste of Things
Charming touching tale of love between two middle-aged chefs in 19th-century France
"...in any art form. But Trần doesn’t depend on glamour shots of elaborately stuffed this or braised that. The..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Invitation
Tedious vampire flick should have stayed in the grave
"...from your lusty vampire genre. There’s no glitz or glamour to set it apart from the pack, and that’s..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

House of Gucci
Ridley Scott is a bad fit for the tale of the fashion house's fall
"...House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed) focus on the couple's fairy-tale romance-turned-deadly liaison,..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dead & Beautiful
Heavy-handed vampire story isn't even that pretty to look at
"...extremely blunt metaphor seeping through the glitz and dull glamour of David Verbeek’s attractively cast vampire drama Dead &..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Formulaic biopic captures subject's glow without critique
"...timid to critique its subject: her naive chase of glamour, her willingness to be part of a subsect that..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Sugar-sweet West End musical biopic is just saccharine
"...similarly living with his mother and adoring of the glamour in dresses, in makeup, in the power of drag...."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by James Scott

Respect
Bloated Aretha Franklin biopic lacks her glitz and power
"...flat and dull as the material themselves. There’s no glamour in Respect, a movie that should be flooded with..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

True to the Game 2
Trust us, you'd be better off playing tiddlywinks
"...one that you’re constantly reminded is a Sheila E. glamour fantasy of white Range Rovers, Bulgari luxury sunglasses, chauffeured..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

This Is Not a Movie
Veteran foreign correspondent Robert Fisk embodies the importance of honest journalism
"...trade by the allure of international travel and the glamour shown by Hollywood fantasies like The Foreign Correspondent, and..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Wretched
Supernatural horror is perfect Friday night fun
"...it just stole that surface - either through a glamour or, as in the delicious supernatural horror The Wretched,..."

May 1, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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