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Driving While Black
The automobile has been an iconic symbol of freedom, accomplishment, wealth, comfort, and status in America since the late 19th century. Though slow-moving like...
Delightful ‘Details’
Photographer Dontrius Williams felt like he had to pick a lane about 10 years ago, so he “went straight to film. To me, digital...
Alone in ‘Night Country’
Early in Episode 2 of True Detective: Night Country, tough cop Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) drops in on Fiona Shaw (Rose Aguineau), a local...
Disappearing Acts
The set of Instructions for a Séance looks like an escape room, with seemingly random objects everywhere, and that is indeed part of the appeal...
The Curse: Frictionless
How does a TV show end? We’ve seen the “main character dies” ending, we’ve seen the “all the characters die” ending, we’ve seen the...
Algorithm of Loss
Peering across the black box theater, you might be forgiven for assuming Marjorie Prime is a sentimental examination of family. After all, based on its...
Between ‘Worlds’
Viewers bring their own preconceptions to visual art even as the creators have their own fully formed ideas and messages in mind. Bridging the...
Top Docs of ’23
Even before the pandemic, people predicted the dismal current state of documentary films. Nonfiction is drawing next to no one at the theaters, and...
Maestro: It’s All Just Music
And now, an apocryphal story about Leonard Bernstein. Some 40 years ago, he conducted a Mozart piece at the Grammy Awards ceremony, and after...
Diverse, Death
I have lived on the Central Texas coast my entire life, and the horrors here are endless. From sightings of the infamous chupacabra to...