It’s often said that out of harsh times some of the best art is created. The way and shape of things causing people to look creatively inward and really tap into what they want to express can make for art thats universal and compelling and inspiring; a cultural moment addressing things that need addressing. For […]Read More
Cheap Thrills is a kick in the teeth, and I mean that in a good way. It’s a dark and cynical, drunk and drugged-out game of dares, with a wicked sense of humor. Winner of the Midnighters Audience Award at SXSW in 2013, E.L. Katz’s directorial debut is the kind of movie that gets a […]Read More
David Gordon Green, most well known to the general public for his stoner comedies Pineapple Express and Your Highness, as well as the recently lauded Prince Avalanche with Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, brought quite a different film to SXSW this year. Adapted from the Larry Brown 1991 novel of the same name, Joe stars Nicolas […]Read More
Okay so this was my first time ever going to SXSW film in Austin, TX. I was stressed out in the beginning choosing which films to watch during the festival. SXSW can get pretty overwhelming especially when there are ten theaters playing for eight days, from 11am to 2am. Below are the 24 films I […]Read More
This movie is so good… so beautiful… that I almost don’t want to sully it with my completely insufficient words. But that is what I am here to do after all. And if I can get just one person to see this movie, that might not have otherwise, it will be worth it. From the […]Read More
Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas (and UT Austin Alumni!), along with star Kristen Bell made Kickstarter history last year by being the largest successful film project ever funded by the crowd-sourcing site. They raised over $2 million in ten hours, and nearly $6 million by the end of the campaign. And the cast was so […]Read More
Day Three of SXSW Film was mostly amazing with a slight disappointment in the middle. It started with the new Matthew McConaughey film, Mud, written and directed by Jeff Nichols. Nichols’ previous film, Take Shelter (starring Machael Shannon and Jessica Chastain) was an unexpected pleasure at last year’s Fantastic Fest. A slow psychological family drama […]Read More
Day one of SXSW Film and I hit the ground running. I saw three films. Two of them were quite clearly about sadism, one was about copyright law, and all three were about crime. And they couldn’t have been more different from each other. By far the most powerful and disturbing of the three was […]Read More
My final SXSW movie to watch was Lovely Molly over at the Alamo Drafthouse. I knew nothing about this movie other than the fact that the preview image looked freaky. Midway through the movie, I made a realization: This movie is five years too late. Everything it is doing has been done already. A lot of […]Read More
The Tall Man was a difficult flick to get into at SXSW because of all the positive buzz about the movie. On top of that, the final screening was at a small theater called The Violet Crown. I was put on a wait list, but I finally managed to make it in after some of the […]Read More
As a huge sci-fi fan, I must admit I was pretty psyched about Extracted from reading the description and seeing the awesome poster. I was expecting something like The Matrix or something trippy like What Dreams May Come. The official synopsis is as follows: Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people’s memories from the inside. Going […]Read More
Today I got to check out a small panel in the SXSW convention center about new wave movie posters from the standpoint of artists and business owners alike. “New wave” refers to the posters that are coming out from the likes of places like Mondo – that is, illustrated posters and not the photoshopped floating […]Read More
I think I am in love. The Raid: Redemption is the best action movie I have seen in years. I want to say take Assault on Precinct 13 and put it in a blender with The Matrix, and you’ve got this flick, but the movie is its own thing, so a comparison is meaningless. You […]Read More
Austin’s weather turned toward the worse right before I was about to leave for Just Like Being There. Rain and 40 degree weather seemed to fight me at every turn, from driving on the road to walking down sixth street toward The Alamo Ritz. But I made it. Scout Shannon’s Just Like Being There was […]Read More
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