I told my mother I wanted to be a writer when I was 2 years old, and sixteen years later as a senior in high school I began my first novel, “Home.” From the first paragraph, I knew it was going to be my first published work. I wrote about a girl visiting her estranged father for the summer and reconnecting with her...
UH alumna Michelle Mower visited the Rice University Media Center Sept. 18-19 to coordinate the 2015 Business of Film Conference. A director and producer, she’s a champion of promoting Houston indie makers. Mower is a board member of SWAMP (Southwest Alternative Media Project), a non-profit organization designed to...
Originating from a lengthy novel, Sophie Bartes’s “Madam Bovary” (2014) suffers from a common film-adaptation affliction I call, “compressionistis.” It’s easy to trace the core problem to the idea that two hours is not adequate time to embody Gustave Flaubert’s book. But the more accurate diagnosis is that it didn’t...
Singer Alicia Hall Moran and musician Jason Moran graced the UH Moores School of Music on the evening of Sept. 16 for the annual Mitchell Art Lecture. Both bursting with character and chemistry, the duo shared insights and samples through their performance art. Jason is a jazz musician and has recently served as...
Director Julie Taymor was initially repulsed by Frida Kahlo’s gory artwork. But the producer and eventual lead actress of “Frida,” Salma Hayek, sparked Taymor’s appreciation and reverence for the artist after she approached her to navigate this unique 2002 film. But the biopic proved to be a more arduous challenge...
Let me paint a picture: you are a monster hunter, and you’ve wandered into a quaint town being ravaged by a plethora of savage creatures. Heroically, you promise to protect the people and fight off these beasts, and since you’ve pledged your body and soul to this little village, they give you a house, a helper and a...
After a seven-year leave, audiences’ favorite courier driver, Frank Martin, still keeps his car shiny and its tank full. But abysmal performances and the wrong kind of gas make this latest run a mar on the resumé. In the “Transporter” franchise’s fourth installment, the license to drive is passed from Jason Statham...
Hollywood has googly-eyes for all the arrow-wielding, ass-kicking independent women in female leads. But in “The Prize-Winner of Defiance, Ohio,” Evelyn Ryan (Julianne Moore) stays in the kitchen. She lives in a time period where the community insinuates that she’s foolish for not tolerating her husband’s (Woody...
Everyone knows that Houston is an energy city — chemical plants and refineries pepper the Bay Area and Hwy. 225, Downtown holds corporate oil and gas offices and the Gulf has its rigs. After all, they don’t call us the “Energy Capital of the World” for nothing. But the secluded happenings at the Energy Research Park,...
As someone who moved here three years ago — knowing nothing about Houston or city-driving in general — I’ve learned that nothing will test your patience more than other drivers in Houston. But here’s an important piece of advice: getting angry won’t carry you to your destination any faster. Just relax and don’t let...
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