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SXSW 2017 Review: TRAGEDY GIRLS, Their Teenage Egos Have A Body Count
The horror genre is one of the most forgiving there is. Fanatics regularly overlook low-budgets, no-name actors, questionable performances, and mediocre writing if a film delivers the kind of thrills that turn them on. The horror-comedy, however, is a far...
SXSW 2017 Dispatch: Coverage Wrap Up & Killer Poster Gallery
Reviews 68 Kill Review by J Hurtado Baby Driver Review by Peter Martin Bad Lucky Goat Review by Peter Martin California Dreams Review by Peter Martin David Lynch - The Art of Life Review by Zach Gayne The Disaster...
SXSW 2017 Review: From SMALL CRIMES Come Big Troubles
Four years ago, Evan Katz made his directorial debut with the pitch-black comedy thriller Cheap Thrills, pitting Pat Healy against Ethan Embry in a diabolical, desperate game of survival. Now Katz has returned to the director's chair with Small Crimes,...
SXSW 2017 Interview: Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon Relive THE BIG SICK
Every couple has their meeting anecdote to tell at dinner parties and hopefully to their grandchildren years down the line, but few, if any, will top screenwriters, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's. It is often asked of married people,...
SXSW 2017 Dispatch: VR Convergence Highlights
It's hard to find a film festival these days that doesn't feature some sort of VR/AR programming and the tech-heavy SXSW is of course no exception. In fact, the festival featured a spin-off "convergence" program that was open to both...
SXSW 2017 Review: In 68 KILL, A Bunch of Assholes Hurtle Toward Oblivion
Matthew Gray Gubler's Chip has a really hard time with women in Trent Haaga's scumbags-on-parade exploitationer, 68 Kill. The story revolves around a white trash heist of $68,000 initiated by Chip's emasculating maniacal girlfriend, Liza (AnnaLynne McCord), who uses her...
SXSW 2017 Review: Three Dystopian Narcissists and an INFINITY BABY
In the not too distant future of Infinity Baby, stem cell research has caused a freak side effect wherein a certain breed of newborns will not age, rather they'll stay babies for their entire lives. Society has deemed them "infinity...
SXSW 2017 Review: DAVID LYNCH - THE ART LIFE Sheds Light on Darkness
David Lynch is one of the great mysteries in the filmmaking world. His films are meticulously constructed enigmas, which require the same type of open minded approach to understanding as it likely takes Lynch himself to paint with images. His...
SXSW 2017 Review: MAYHEM, So Fast on Its Feet That It's Almost Out of Control
With great lead performances by Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving, a great musical score by Steve Moore, and great bloody action masterminded by director Joe Lynch, Mayhem is almost too much fun. It's the perfect example of a movie that...
SXSW 2017 Dispatch: A Solid Year of Docs Continues + More Films and Fun from Austin
It's been an excellent year for documentaries already in 2017 with such incredible films as Icarus, An Inconvenient Sequel, Nobody Speak, and Trophy all premiering at Sundance (those last two playing SXSW as well). There have been several new great...
SXSW 2017 Dispatch: Great Crime Films, Both Big and Small
SXSW 2017 Dispatch: Great Crime Films, Both Big and Small Late night booze-fueled taco runs be damned, the SXSW train just keeps chugging along. There have been an ridiculous number of great moves in this year's program, many of which,...
SXSW 2017 Review: BABY DRIVER, Grand Entertainment on a Funny, Thrilling Ride
Voom voom voom! So begins Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, which finds Ansel Elgort behind the wheel as a getaway driver, rocking out to the a song blasting from the buds planted in his ears. In the privacy of his own...
SXSW 2017 Review: DIVINE DIVAS Goes Behind the Curtains
Vibrant and enlightening, Divine Divas peeks behind the curtains of the Rival Theatre in Brazil, which was one of the first in the country to showcase men dressed as women in the 1960s. Eight artists have gathered for a 50th...
SXSW 2017 Dispatch: Early Buzz from a Truly Excellent Film Lineup
SXSW is off to a raucous start with the indie film biz and Austin movie fans competing for precious 6th street real estate with the techies and college kids. SXSW is such an interesting event as far as film festivals...
SXSW 2017 Review: CALIFORNIA DREAMS, Questioning the Meaning of Life
Taken at face value, Mike Ott's California Dreams is a slowly-drawn portrait of ordinary people who harbor dreams of something better. It mixes documentary footage and staged scenes without demarcation. To what effect? That is left up to the viewer...
SXSW 2017 Review: BAD LUCKY GOAT, Two Siblings on a Comic Dramatic Journey
A brother, a sister, a goat. A relaxed charmer, Bad Lucky Goat is some kind of wonderful. It starts with an appetizer that establishes its milieu, a ramshackle island community in the Caribbean. The area is in Colombia, South America,...
CHEAP THRILLS Director Returns With SMALL CRIMES. Check Out The Trailer!
Having turned heads with his debut feature Cheap Thrills, EL Katz returns with his sophomore effort Small Crimes about to premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. This time out Katz teams up with I Don't Feel At Home In This...
TWO PIGEONS: Javier Botet Is The Secret Guest You Do Not Want In Clip From SXSW Selected Dark Comedy
Spindly limbed Spaniard Javier Botet has been a go-to performer in the horror world in recent years, his (beyond) slender frame making him an ideal candidate to go under layers of latex while playing creatures and villains in the likes...
LIKE ME: Watch The Exclusive Teaser For Robert Mockler's SXSW Thriller
The internet can be a weird and dark place, which is something I think anybody who has spent any amount of time online can agree on. How much online culture will grow to shape society versus how much society shapes...
SXSW 2017: Exclusive Clip from INHERITANCE
It's a big SXSW for Mark Webber. Aside from world premiering his new directorial outing Flesh and Blood, he also stars in Jessica Kaye and Laura E. Davis's Inheritance. We're very excited for the flick and are happy to share...
