Articles tagged: Film
‘Trapped’ in the Limelight
The everyday struggles of a San Antonio abortion clinic services director are at the heart of the acclaimed documentary 'Trapped.'
San Antonio clinic director Marva Sadler is at the center of an acclaimed new documentary tracking anti-abortion laws' effects on providers and patients....Read More
HBO’s All the Way Delivers a Kinder, Gentler LBJ
While revealing a gentler, kinder Johnson, Robert Schenkkan fails to acknowledge how harsh and self-interested the Texan president could be....Read More
Texas’ Strange Brand of Cool
Revisiting 'Paris, Texas' — the film that made nowhere hip.
'Paris, Texas' invented a certain flavor of Texas cool, an updated take on the archetypes of the state (men wandering out of the desert, trailer-park romance, d...Read More
‘Tower’ Animates America’s First Mass School Shooting
As Texans hotly debate the impact of looser gun restrictions, the new documentary 'Tower' looks back at one of the first mass shootings in the country....Read More
Dance Hall Doc Takes Filmgoers to ‘Honky Tonk Heaven’
The film touches on the effects of Austin's economic boom, but focuses on the music that made the Broken Spoke famous.
A music documentary that touches on the effects of Austin's economic boom, 'Honky Tonk Heaven' is historical and cultural preservation through film....Read More
A ‘Love Song’ to the Man Who Put Austin Film on the Map
Film students and "Slacker" fans alike will appreciate Louis Black's new film about Richard Linklater, a kind of "love song" in documentary form....Read More
Oscars May Be #SoWhite, but Austin’s Alt Girl Cinema Isn’t
A new Austin pop-up film series celebrates women filmmakers of color who create art across a diversity of genres, from experimental film to horror....Read More
The Unwatchable ‘Sicario’
Denis Villeneuve’s nihilistic take on the drug war.
Sicario actually goes beyond stressful into the realm of anxiety-inducing: It’s a gorgeous and thrilling but ultimately exhausting immersion in an amoral worl...Read More
Catching Up with Janis
Her brand of blues presaged 21st century sexual politics.
Joplin remains important now, 45 years after her death, through a combination of that indelible voice and her zeitgeisty identification with the exuberant spiri...Read More