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SXSW Announces 2025 Film & TV Festival Award Winners

On Wednesday evening, SXSW handed out the Jury and Special Awards for its 2025 Film & TV lineup.

10:51PM Wed. Mar. 12, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Cotton Candy Bubble Gum

The first thing you need to know about Carter (Nick Darnell) is that he has the anxiety, to the point that he has a fanny pack worn across his chest, full of cotton candy bubble gum, which he chews when he feels a panic attack coming on.

3:35PM Wed. Mar. 12, Joe Gross Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Python Hunt

When it comes to bad PR, it's a race to the bottom for three species of land animals. Spiders have too many legs and eyes, scorpions' backs bend the wrong way, and snakes, well. It's just everything about them.

1:00PM Wed. Mar. 12, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Night of the Hunter

Paramount Theatre

Just for Teens: Captive Creatures at Terrazas Branch Library

Rainbow Girls, B.R. Lively at Radio/East

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

SXSW Film Review: The Age of Disclosure

It’s been said there are two kinds of people: those that believe in UFOs and those that don’t. There’s a third kind: people who don’t have to believe in UFOs because they know they’re real.

12:23PM Wed. Mar. 12, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Descendent

From the bodily to the existential, the horrors of parenthood are apparent and well-explored across the horror landscape.

12:07PM Wed. Mar. 12, Alejandra Martinez Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Are We Good?

If you’ve seen Marc Maron’s standup or listened to his podcast, you’re probably aware of the immense amount of grief that he went through after his late girlfriend, filmmaker Lynn Shelton, passed away suddenly from a rare blood disease.

11:46AM Wed. Mar. 12, Jenny Nulf Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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 Read More | Comment »

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