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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 »

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 »

TODAY'S EVENTS

No Kings, Kick Out the Clowns

Texas State Capitol

Babestock Day 1 w/ Kayristin, Jenny Voss, Black Daria, DJ La Moon, more [outside]; Baby Kush, CLINK!, Bunny G, more [inside] at Cheer Up Charlies

Body Rock ATX (Prince tribute) w/ DJ Chorizo Funk & Riders Against the Storm at Parish

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

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 »

Short and Sweet: “Neuro”

What would you do to get rid of a bad memory? In retro sci-fi mindbender "Neuro" by first-time director Wes Ellis, the cost may be too high.

12:00PM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Short and Sweet: “Red Sands”

In the desert outside of El Paso, Texas, the dunes glow like rust. It's from the iron oxide in the soil. Thirty-four million years ago, it was covered by an ocean, but now the sound of waves has receded, to be replaced by that of internal combustion engines.

11:55AM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Dust Bowl Blues and Dystopian Futures in South by Southwest Musical O’Dessa

Geremy Jaspar has a confession to make. “I’m a music guy,” he explained, but with a coda. “I’m not a huge musical person.”

7:30AM Fri. Mar. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

In SXSW Documentary Other Side, an Activist Fights to the End for Access to Medical Aid in Dying

The greatest privilege is to die as you have lived. So, when Jake Shannon found out that his mother, Lynda Bluestein, would be the subject of a documentary about her death, he wasn’t surprised. “It was in line with how my mom lived her whole life.”

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

The Light in the Tragedy of Magic Hour

Since setting the table for the microbudget revolution known as mumblecore in 2005 with The Puffy Chair, Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass have become an indie filmmaking power couple.

12:05PM Thu. Mar. 6, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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