ANNAINAUSTIN...and Company! Blog

On Holiday With Mr. Covid

Read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News about getting Covid while she was on holiday in Spain for the Primavera Sound music festival. Original story online

Marcel The Shell

Check out my review of the adorable new feature film “Marcel The Shell With Shoes On” over on the Canadian film site Get Reel Movies! Marcel is the Mollusk of the Moment for a...

We Feed People

During a disaster it’s hard to get a hot meal. That’s why the nonprofit World Central Kitchen is operating multiple locations in Poland, providing solid meals to some of the nearly 4 million refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.

32 Sounds: A review

You can check out Anna’s South by Southwest review of the movie 32 SOUNDS in the Canadian film site GET REEL MOVIES! Click here to read!

On Olympic Bodies

With the recent arrival of the Dobbs verdict, and the further threat to women’s bodily automy, it’s easy to forget that we have been on a road to this for a while. Apart from...

Valentine’s for the Single

If you’d like to read Anna’s take on Valentine’s Day, about how it can be more than just “Singles Awareness Day” for the Dallas Morning News, click here.

No Rumpled Female Detectives, Please

Stuck inside with this wave of Omicron, I’ve been watching a lot of old television, from Murder She Wrote to Columbo. All that telly consumption illustrated that we have a long history of rumpled,...

January Haters Club

Screaming “I HATE JANUARY” out loud for the zillionth time this week, it occurred to me that I’m probably not alone. Following closely on the cries of “Happy New Year” is one ugly slog...