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SXSW Film Review: Assembly

Rashaad Newsome’s art exists in a space that plays with surrealism, futurism, and resistance. The multidisciplinary artist has created video works, collage, and sculpture, but in Assembly, we follow Newsome as he prepares for an ambitious exhibit of the same name that controversially incorporates artificial intelligence.

5:51PM Mon. Mar. 10, Alejandra Martinez Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Shuffle

Find an addict. Give them the promise of happiness, and get ’em hooked. If they get clean, wait for them to lapse. And always, always tell ’em the first one’s free.

5:38PM Mon. Mar. 10, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

How Texas Soccer Stakeholders Are Bracing for 2026 World Cup

How do you make the most of the biggest sporting event in the history of humanity after the circus leaves town?

4:37PM Mon. Mar. 10, Eric Goodman Read More | Comment »

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Star Wars Trivia

Pinthouse Pizza

Tribulation, Early Moods, Final Gasp, Unreqvited at Come & Take It Live

One Crazy Summer
at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

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SXSW Film Review: The Secret of Me

From the outside, Kristi’s childhood was not unlike most other kids growing up in the Eighties. She played on the girls soccer team and rocked a gnarly perm. Unbeknownst to her, Kristi’s parents kept a painful secret.

3:10PM Mon. Mar. 10, Dex Wesley Parra Read More | Comment »

Trauma From the Past, Trauma From the Skies in Descendent

There are moments in life that rock your sense of certainty about how the world works. Pivotal changes like the birth of your first child or the first time you get abducted by aliens.

2:14PM Mon. Mar. 10, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Reeling

Families are messy things in the best of times, and as Reeling shows in its world premiere at SXSW there is a way in which tragedy can jumble things up even more. First-time director Yana Alliata takes elements of her own experiences and fuses them into a story of pain, love, and an uncertain future.

11:51AM Mon. Mar. 10, Rod Machen Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Friendship

Doubling down on the bit is par for the course for maestro-of-cringe Tim Robinson. In his first leading movie role, the star of cult sketch show I Think You Should Leave does his usual zany schtick, this time to impress and befriend his new neighbor played by Paul Rudd. Who among us wouldn’t?

8:25AM Mon. Mar. 10, Dex Wesley Parra Read More | Comment »

Corrupting an Australian Paradise in The Surfer

Sometimes an image too strange to not be from real life is enough to inspire a movie.

7:00AM Mon. Mar. 10, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

The Tale Of Two Cities, 5,000 Miles Apart

As SXSW 2025 gets into full swing, Manchester's landmark presence at the festival has already made waves with historic agreements and captivating sessions.