2023 Oscar-Nominated Short Films – Live Action

Good intentions by voters don't lead to a great selection

"...digest with its cheeky childhood antics and even cheekier nuns. It’s a slice-of-life Christmas farce, as sweet as the..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Agnes

Sleazy, sexy, bawdy and surprising look at religion, lust, and power

"...now confined) is horny, repressed, perverse, and performative. The nuns leer at the affably charismatic Donaghue, who ramps up..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Habit

Nuns on the run, but no fun

"...why she convinces her friends to disguise themselves as nuns when they get on the wrong side of a..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Willie Nelson Delivers Down to Earth Keynote SXSW Online Needed

“I smoke a lot of pot, keeps from killing people or getting killed”

"...joke his subject told him two decades ago about nuns riding bicycles around the Vatican. Without pause, Willie jumped..."

March 17, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Nun

The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania

"...especially with so many baffling decisions – interchangeable supporting nuns, inexplicable accent choices, painfully laugh-resistant jokes delivered by dashing..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Joaquin Phoenix creates a charming warts-and-all portrait of cartoonist John Callahan

"...laugh came with a gasp. Whether it was cannibals, nuns, pedophiles, or his favorite target – himself – his..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lady Bird

An enchanting coming-of-age tale from Greta Gerwig

"...delight as she demolishes our preconceptions of strict, humorless nuns and their harsh punishments...."

Nov. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Julieta

Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life

"...to the earlier film, however, Julieta features no HIV-positive nuns, transsexual prostitutes, drug-addicted actresses, or cross-dressing fathers orbiting its..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Ballad of Alejandro Escovedo

Austin icon pulls off a marathon performance at the Moody

"...Escovedo worshiper (me), muttered to himself, “They forgot the Nuns.” Sure enough, the very next song, “Chelsea Hotel ’78,”..."

Jan. 14, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The AggreGAYtor: November 21

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• A coven convent of Ohioan nuns are worried that birth control is turning men gay,..."

Nov. 21, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Labor Day TV Programming

Got the day off? Time to work the couch

"...plays Sister Clodagh, who leads a sect of Anglican nuns up the mountain to start a school in an..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Mighty Macs

This film tells the story of rookie basketball coach and future Hall of Famer Cathy Rush who led the women of Immaculata College to three consecutive national championships from 1972 to 1974.

"...That’s especially good because there are a lot of nuns around for the dispensation of holy passes – Hail..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman whip things into a baroque frenzy in this crazed hybrid of drama and horror set amid a ballet corps.

"...Powell and Pressburger film, Black Narcissus, with its sex-starved nuns, that hits closer to home. Black Swan is part..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Such Great Heights

The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures

"...about achieving the just-right shade of white for the nuns' habits in Black Narcissus – an indicator of the..."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'Dialogues of the Carmelites'

Soprano Virginia Zeani recalls working with Francis Poulenc as a beautiful dream

"...an opera he was writing about a convent of nuns facing death during the French Revolution. Zeani was unsure..."

April 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Record Review

"...– it's 1978," throws down the opening lines of "Nuns Song" well into the album, a challenge also tossed..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Sessions: From Vodka to Voter ID

Dems rally to fight voter ID law

"...on this issue." Anchia noted the story of 12 nuns who were prevented from voting in Indiana, where a..."

June 13, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Crew Stories

On the set of 'Z: The Zombie Musical'

"...the missing lime-green van that the film's leads, three nuns turned zombies, tool around in. Last McLean heard it..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

In the Realms of the Unreal

The strange artwork and life of primitivist Harry Darger is given dimension by master documentarist Jessica Yu.

"...himself, against reality, with his supposed enemies, against the nuns and teachers and institutions that raised and educated him..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Set in 1931 Australia and based on a true event, Noyce's film shows what three half-caste aboriginal girls experience when they escape the camp where they have been forcibly sent in order to become anglicized. The music is by Peter Gabriel.

"...at their situation. The settlement – complete with stodgy nuns enforcing an English language-only policy, Western-style clothes, and a..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...not among the openers. I do remember seeing the Nuns, the SF punk act that included Alejandro Escovedo among..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...not among the openers. I do remember seeing the Nuns, the SF punk act that included Alejandro Escovedo among..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Column

The Sound of Music: The Sweetest Sounds

In its production of The Sound of Music, Austin Musical Theatre delivers Rodgers & Hammerstein's familiar songs with an ear for not just their beguiling tunefulness but their dramatic impact, so that the redemptive power of music makes itself heard again and again and again.

"...the other characters make vital connections. For Maria's fellow nuns, it is a way to God, the medium for..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Touchables

"...the swinging Sixties has sex-starved London women dressed as nuns kidnapping a rock star and keeping him captive in..."

Nov. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Punks

"...if they involve yards of bubble wrap, black vinyl nuns' habits that break away to reveal hot pants and..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Will Travel for Food

Austin cultural historian Claudia Alarcón, a native of Mexico City, on her annual quest for chiles en nogada.

"...of Mexico's best regional cuisine, created by the Agustine nuns of the Santa Monica convent in 1821. According to..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Guardian of Hell

"...and Susan Forget. The devil made them do it. Nuns in a convent lust after the abbot. Check out..."

March 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lobbying for Little People

A Profile of Austin's Center for Public Policy Priorities

"...the radical gospel espoused by a group of Catholic nuns based in Boerne. The Order of St. Benedict has..."

Feb. 2, 2001 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...He was sitting there with this 700-page manuscript, Bad Nuns in Bondage. And he said, "We can't have all..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

This Is My Father

"...recently tossed out of boarding school for offending the nuns. After taking in a local dance during which a..."

June 18, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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