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Sept. 10, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
American Job
"...he bounces from job to job in the American Midwest. Randy's not on a career path, not seeking his..."
March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Palindromes
Nominally the story of a 13-year-old girl who longs for a baby, Todd Solondz's latest is provocative, wicked, even bleakly funny, and ultimately empty.
"...shrubbery, wait until he gets his hands on the Midwest. The scenes with Mama Sunshine’s gimpy brood evince the..."
May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
At Ground Zero
"...he travels stretches from the West Coast into the Midwest, with his camera focused on a couple of young..."
May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires
Captain Ron
"...to rescue the hapless Harvey family from their ho-hum midwest existence. He does this by plunging them into uncharted..."
Sept. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona
Margo Price
Midwest Farmer's Daughter (Third Man)
"...Man Records upstart turns this misfortune into motivation on Midwest Farmer's Daughter, hellbent on making a name for herself..."
Sept. 30, 2016 Music Feature by Bryan Rolli
Gone to the Dogs
A Stray looks at Somali refugee life in the Midwest
"...– adding, with a playful jab at his native Midwest: "There's a real resilience and creativity to how they've..."
March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno
Letters at 3AM
People in the small towns of the West and Midwest are watching their communities, and their way of life, shrivel and die.
"...ghost town, one of hundreds across the West and Midwest...."
March 30, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura
Fantastic Fest Interview: The Boy Behind the Door
David Charbonier and Justin Powell on their dark thriller
"...house is incredible, by the way. It's like this Midwest Gothic mansion in the middle of the California oil..."
Sept. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
He's Not in Wisconsin Anymore
Director Miguel Arteta on his bumpkin-in-the-big-city comedy Cedar Rapids
"...and the script reveals a definite fondness for the Midwest. "Phil found Ed before he wrote the script," explains..."
Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Freddie Gibbs
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"...Freddie GibbsMidwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik Freddie GibbsThe Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs..."
March 19, 2010 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...the same Twin City tree that's brought us a Midwest movement of garage-hop with bleeding heart poetics, Heiruspecs brings..."
March 14, 2003 Music Feature
Social Studies
James Hynes' satires of academia allow the author to say funny things about serious people.
"...Tale, which is a satire. He is from the Midwest ("the small town of Big Rapids," Mich.), so the..."
Jan. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith
Excerpt From The Lecturer's Tale
"...sheep among wolves in the factional English Department at Midwest University. Having grown up on a steady diet of..."
Jan. 19, 2001 Books Feature
Defining the Name of the World
Denis Johnson's new novel is about grief, but told anew, as if we didn't know anything about it.
"...when offered a position at a university in the Midwest teaching history in small seminars with books he has..."
July 7, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith
The Flatness and Other Landscapes
"...Michael Martone explores what he likes to call the "Midwestern paradox" in The Flatness and Other Landscapes, which has..."
March 31, 2000 Books Review by Amanda Eyre Ward
Jeff Nichols on the Tragic Romance of The Bikeriders
The Austin filmmaker on finding the right POV for his new film
"...new film The Bikeriders, Jeff Nichols travels to the Midwest of the mid-Sixties to explore how the blue-collar bikers..."
June 20, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Emulating the Eighties in Dead Mail
Kyle McConaghy and Joe DeBoer synthesize tragic horror for SXSW
"...Dead Mail, a trip into dual obsessions in the Midwest in the mid-Eighties. First, there is Trent (John Fleck),..."
March 8, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
The First-Ever Austin Women in Jazz Festival and More Crucial Concerts This Week
Plus visiting acts from Burna Boy to Mike Dimes and Dro Kenji
"...A precise starting point for Midwest emo – the genre's twinkly, indie, not-so-punky strain –..."
Nov. 17, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe
Foe
Sci-fi eco thriller is just an exercise in infuriating mystery
"...the planet are uninhabitable, including most of the American Midwest. Still, married couple Hen (Ronan) and Junior (Mescal) cling..."
Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Ants and the Grasshopper
Documentary wonders how to change minds about climate change
"...Malawian farmer Anita Chitaya as she travels the US Midwest to talk with her fellow farmers about climate change...."
March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
When You Finish Saving the World
Underwhelming adaptation of Jesse Eisenberg's neurotic audio drama
"...brown miasma that has become movie shorthand for "the Midwest") strips out that structure. Instead, it concentrates on high..."
Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
White Noise
Can Don DeLillo's postmodern landmark make it to the actual future?
"...much of his adaptation. Jack Gladney (Driver), an esteemed Midwest college professor specializing in Hitler studies, and his wife,..."
Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
A Love Song
Dale Dickey paints a meticulous portrait of hope and love
"...become filmmaking shorthand for a certain kind of weather-worn, West-to-Midwest, working-class life lived hard. But that's the kind of..."
Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Jurassic World Dominion
Nothing new in the DNA of this dinosaur trilogy capper
"...uniquely sexless relationship in the middle of the American Midwest. When their clone daughter – two words that will..."
June 10, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Coast
A small-town girl falls for a touring band
"...Man drummer Ritchotte), the front man for a mediocre Midwest Emo-tinged punk band who offers to take her on..."
April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Hezada! I Miss You by Erin Pringle
Erin Pringle's debut novel is a circus of grief
"...through in gorgeously rendered small chapters. Ostensibly about a Midwestern traveling circus making the last stop of the summer..."
March 6, 2020 Arts Review by Cat McCarrey
Austin's House Music Scene Clings to the African-American Community That Birthed It
House music rose to prominence from Chicago’s black music community and hangs on here in its original form
"...styles in popularity, modern house music mostly eschews its Midwestern roots...."
Feb. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile
Fantastic Fest Film Depicts Militias With a Hair Trigger
When rugged individualism goes wrong in The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
"...that is an inherent contradiction: a militia in the Midwest, a gathering of people who see themselves as rugged..."
Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Eating Animals
Natalie Portman narrated documentary about the ethics of farming versus factory farming.
"...aesthetic is powerful, with the luscious rolling scenes of Midwest turkey farms yin-yanged with downright horrific footage of cruel..."
June 29, 2018 Movie Review by Jessi Cape
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