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SXSW Film Review: Bunny
A tenement building in the East Village of New York City. A large cast of outsized characters. Throw in a dead body, and now you've got a movie. Bunny, by first-time director Ben Jacobson, harnesses all of this energy for the tale of a night to remember.

7:39PM Sat. Mar. 8, Rod Machen Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Spies Among Us
As the depressingly relevant documentary The Spies Among Us chronicles, when Peter Keup, a German dancer and dance instructor was about 54, he learned that his long-deceased brother, Uli, was an informant for the Stasi, East Germany’s terrifying and infamous secret police.

4:49PM Sat. Mar. 8, Joe Gross Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: One More Shot
What would you do if you had the power to travel back in time by way of a tequila shot?

10:40AM Sat. Mar. 8, Jenny Nulf Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Sweetness
There is a fragile vulnerability to being a teenage music fan. Often, music can reach into the spaces where others can’t tread in one’s adolescence. In Emma Higgins’ debut thriller, Sweetness, one teenage girl’s hero worship of a pop star turns into something deadlier.

9:38AM Sat. Mar. 8, Alejandra Martinez Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Baby Doe
Jessica Earnshaw’s Baby Doe opens with a happy family playing a board game. Minutes into the film, the mother is questioned about a found dead baby – hers, according to new DNA technology. What follows is an empathetic, gut-wrenching exploration of pregnancy denial, secrecy, and justice.

9:21AM Sat. Mar. 8, Jessi Cape Read More | Comment »

Tugging at True-Crime's Seams in SXSW Doc Zodiac Killer Project
The lone investigator, hunting for evidence. Images of falling files. Opening credits with mournful country music playing over images of faces with landscapes projected on them. A weird and overstretched visual metaphor. Just a taste of the endless tropes of the modern true crime documentary.

8:30AM Sat. Mar. 8, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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A Dog’s View of Evil in SXSW Midnighter Good Boy
One of the greatest challenges for any filmmaker is casting. So how did writer/director Ben Leonberg meet the star of his new supernatural horror, Good Boy? “I’ve known him his whole life,” Leonberg said. “I met him as a puppy in upstate New York.”

8:00AM Sat. Mar. 8, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Drama American Sweatshop Contemplates the Extreme Content That Can’t Be Unseen
There’s a new and terrifying rite of passage for parents: giving their kids unfettered access to the internet for the first time.

6:15AM Sat. Mar. 8, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Another Simple Favor
A Simple Favor, the fun-yet-tonally-baffling 2018 comedy-noir about a mom vlogger (Anna Kendrick) who becomes entangled with an impossibly cool con artist (Blake Lively) built a word-of-mouth cult on Kendrick’s comic chops, Lively’s incredible suits, and their sexual tension. The sequel is more yet less.

11:42PM Fri. Mar. 7, Joe Gross Read More | Comment »

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