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11:46AM Wed. Mar. 12,
Finding Autistic Cool in Animation Anthology Autistic Mode
Second year alt-fest Smash by Smash West puts an emphasis on programming other bigger brand name conventions – perhaps ones whose naming structure is familiar to you – might pass on. Dropping this Tuesday into the screening room of leftist bookstore Monkeywrench at 8pm is just such a work: animatic anthology film Autistic Mode.
4:29PM Tue. Mar. 11, James Scott
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There’s Only One Naomi Ackie in Mickey 17
Plenty performers would be envious of British actor Naomi Ackie’s career, which has included a supporting role in Star Wars and a breakout performance in Blink Twice, but right now she has a new ambition. “A cinema named after me. That would be the coolest thing ever.”
3:33PM Tue. Mar. 11, Richard Whittaker
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SXSW Film Review: For Worse
Does two movies make a trend? Does it have to be three? For Worse is the second movie of SXSW 2025 that focuses on a divorced woman in her 50s trying to make sense of the culture that now surrounds her. Hilarity does in fact ensue and in a different tone and timbre from its secret sharer, Fantasy Life.
3:19PM Tue. Mar. 11, Joe Gross
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SXSW Film Review: My Uncle Jens
There’s a knock on your door in the middle of the night. The man outside says he’s your uncle. But you only met him once when you were a child back in your Kurdistan homeland and you’ve had no advance warning of his visit. So what do you do?
11:48AM Tue. Mar. 11, Marjorie Baumgarten
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SXSW Film Review: The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick
City dwellers who harbor a mistrust in the countryside may have their fears validated by The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick, an anti-thriller intended to tickle your biophobia like a bug crawling on your arm.
10:27PM Mon. Mar. 10, Richard Whittaker
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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
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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
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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.
