Culture and Society

Ethan Hawke's outstanding performance centers Logan Marshall-Green's independent film about a 'three-strikes' ex-con trying to reintegrate into society.

Vampires in Staten Island? It's 'What We Do in the Shadows,' premiering at SXSW 2019.

Ninian Doff's feature debut is an amusing spin on 'The Most Dangerous Game,' bolstered with rowdy comedy, rap music and drugs.

Harking back to the 20th-century theatrical avant-garde, the LGBTI-themed political burlesque '55 Shades of Gay' from Kosovo reminds us of the endurance of homophobia.

Exploring what it means to be beautiful, this vivid show inspired by a West African fable lenses familiar passions and traumas into high relief.

Broken Social Scene and Japanese Breakfast are among the thousands of performers scheduled for South by Southwest Music Festival 2019 in Austin, Texas on March 11-17.

Thinking about my many years here at 'Blogcritics.'

As SXSW enters its 33rd year, the event promises to be bigger, more exciting, and include changes to the mechanics to make it easier and faster to get to the events you want to see. SXSW began as a music festival, added film, then just kept growing. If it’s inspiring, …

'Songs of Our Native Daughters' from Our Native Daughters is as rich and textured, and fraught with violence and emotional turmoil, as the history of Africans in the West.

Atticus Finch is on Broadway, but 'Random Acts,' Renata Hinrichs' penetrating and much more intimate evocation of our racist history, is just six blocks downtown.