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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 »

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 »

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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 »

SXSW Film Review: The Threesome

The idea of more than two people getting intimate is instantly titillating to many. Well, the magic number is three, but the point stands. Being a little taboo might just be the thing to spice up the love lives of a small group.

8:13PM Fri. Mar. 7, Rod Machen Read More | Comment »

Scholars Visiting Austin Discuss the Building Blocks of a “Just Economy”

The field of economics has a physics problem. Or, more specifically, a playing-dress-up-as-a-natural-science problem, says Nick Romeo, a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and a professor of journalism at UC Berkeley.

6:00PM Fri. Mar. 7, Maggie Quinlan Read More | Comment »

In I Really Love My Husband, a Couple Becomes a Throuple

What’s your superpower? That was the question GG Hawkins was asked while attending New York’s Gotham Film & Media Institute.

3:25PM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Chasing the Yeses: Bluesky COO Rose Wang Heads to SXSW

To say that Rose Wang’s career trajectory has been unusual may be an understatement. A decade ago, she was selling cricket meal as an alternative protein source. Now she’s COO of Bluesky, the first major social media platform launched in almost a decade.

12:14PM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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