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SXSW 2025: How Theaters Are Eventizing the Moviegoing Experience
Before I watched anything at SXSW this year, I began Friday, March 7, by attending a panel entitled "How Theaters Are Eventizing the Moviegoing Experience." Much of the discussion centered around how individual theaters and local cinema chains have made...
SXSW 2025: CORINA, NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, and More Win Audience Awards
For reasons I cannot fully explain, I an unreasonably happy that director Urzula Barba Hopfner's Corina won the Audience Award in the Global section at SXSW 2025. I love the movie. That is all. Matt Johnson's Nirvana the Band the...
SXSW 2025 Review: CAPER, Toxicity Does Not Pay
Dan Imperial's comedy is a bitter pill to swallow for six New York City men.
SXSW 2025 Review: FLIGHT 149: HOSTAGE OF WAR, Flown into a War Zone
Directed by Jenny Ash, the film asks why civilian passengers were used as pawns by powerful forces.
SXSW 2025 Review: LIFEHACK, Raw Humanity, Vibrant Storytelling
Ronan Corrigan's crime thriller is like a buzz haircut.
SXSW 2025 Review: $POSITIONS, Money Changes Everything
Brandon Daley's wildly funny film stars Mike Kunicki, Vinny Kress, Trevor Dawkins, and Kaylyn Carter in a compelling tale of friendship, obsession, and a p--- bomb.
SXSW 2025 Review: SWEETNESS, Deceptively Sour, Completely Unhinged
Kate Hallett gives a brilliantly layered performance in writer/director Emma Higgins' lacerating tale of friendship, fantasy, and brutal reality.
SXSW 2025: SLANTED, SHUFFLE, More Get Jury and Special Awards
Ripped from the pages of our email in-box: "The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the 2025 Jury and Special Award winners of the 32nd SXSW Film & TV Festival. "Feature films receiving Jury Awards were selected from...
SXSW 2025 Interview: SLANTED, Amy Wang Talks Looking Within, Absorbing Each Other
Amy Wang, a Chinese-Australian debut director, discusses her bitingly satirical exploration of racial identity in the US.
SXSW 2025 Interview: SHE'S THE HE, Siobhan McCarthy Talks Their Trans Indie For America's Here and Now
Nonbinary filmmaker Siobhan McCarthy turned around the trans answer to bromance comedies in a mere year. Here's why.
SXSW 2025 Review: UVALDE MOM, As Questions Remain, a Hero Arises
On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, with an AR-15 style rifle. The former pupil fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, while injuring 17 others. These deaths and injuries happened over time that day. While...
SXSW 2025 Review: MY UNCLE JENS, Torn By Tension, Comic and Otherwise
Brwa Vahabpour's surprising feature debut stars Peiman Azizpour, Hamza Agoshi, and Sarah Francesca Brænne.
SXSW 2025 Review: SPREADSHEET CHAMPIONS, The Thrill and the Agony of Numbers
Director Kristina Kaskov's engaging documentary follows six young competitors from around the world.
SXSW 2025 Review: SURVIVING EARTH, Joyful, Loving, Complex
Slavko Sobin stars in Thea Gajić's empathetic tale of a musician with a troubled past.
SXSW 2025 Review: OTHER SIDE, Compassion Until The End
Brooklyn-based documentarians Carter Oakley and Heather Hogan have made a career of focusing on end-of-life issues. As individuals, they themselves have witnessed the process with loved ones and through Hogan’s work as a death doula. The reality is that sometimes...
SXSW 2025 Preview: Fun Films Galore at Texas's Biggest Throwdown
Now that the serious business of Sundance and Oscar Season have come to a close, we can turn our attention to what really matters... a wild festival of good times, BBQ, and too many great movies to see in Texas's...
SXSW 2025 Announces Film & TV Festival Slate, Led By THE STUDIO
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." Roy Scheider's quiet words when he first sees the shark in Steven Spielberg's Jaws came back to me when I opened my email and saw the film and television slate announced by SXSW for...
RESYNATOR Review: Rather Amazing and Completely Fascinating
Alison Tavel's documentary about her father's invention of a revolutionary musical instrument is a compelling watch and even better than I had hoped.
SXSW 2024: What We Watched, Liked and Loved
From March 8-16, 2024, the center of our genre-film loving world moved to Austin, Texas, US, where the SXSW Film & TV Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films and television shows. Our own J. Hurtado attended the...
IT LIVES INSIDE Review: The Monster Next Door
Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, and Mohana Krishnan star in a horror thriller, directed by Bishal Dutta.
