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“Always do what you love, not just what’s easy.” Producer Gale Anne Hurd, Tuesday’s closing SXSW keynote, is behind many of Hollywood’s seminal genre films including The Terminator (which she also co-wrote) and Aliens. Today she is the executive producer of AMC’s The Walking Dead and its spin-off, Fear the Walking Dead.

7:30PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Sarah Marloff Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Operation Avalanche

Now this is what great film festivals like SXSW are all about – a glimpse of top-notch emerging talent that very well may take over Hollywood in the decade or two to come.

7:00PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Michael Agresta Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Before the Sun Explodes

Indie actress (Oleanna) turned filmmaker Deborah Eisenstadt is interested in uncomfortable spaces, and her new feature Before the Sun Explodes is lodged in one such uncertain territory: between “manic pixie dream girl” romantic comedy and stalker thriller.

3:00PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Michael Agresta 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

SXSW Film Review: My Father Die

Revenge is a human instinct, as Asher (Joe Anderson) explains via the internal monologue that flows through this Mississippi River revenge fable My Father Die. Must be true, because he’s pretty damn good at it.

2:15PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Shovel Buddies

Despite the focused efforts of executive producer/star Bella Thorne to deepen it, Shovel Buddies is a shallow small-town drama that strives for a dark quirkiness, but ends up burying any authenticity with tackiness.

1:45PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Sean L. Malin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Bandit

Director Jesse Moss returns to SXSW with this turbo-charged doc about Seventies Hollywood legends Burt Reynolds, his best friend and stuntman Hal Needham, and how the pair of these two loose cannons dreamed up, financed, and shot one of the most authentically kickass road movies of all time: 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit.

1:15PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

Tony Robbins curses like a construction worker caught in traffic. Tony Robbins calls men out for being weaklings. Tony Robbins holds damaged people (male and female) in his arms and offers comfort. Tony Robbins is the dictionary definition of charisma.

1:00PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Joe O'Connell Read More | Comment »

An English Spaceship Lands at SXSW

Every teenager feels like they're on their own, and that's what unifies them. It's a contradiction that dances through Alex Taylor's Spaceship, which debuted this year at SXSW.

12:00PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Preacher

Whether by dint of marketing mandate (American comics for American readers) or ancestral DNA (comics as a fundamental American art form), the Nineties “British Invasion” of comics writers, on whom early DC Comics’ Vertigo line (dark fantasy for mature readers) staked its success, made it their business explaining America to itself.

10:30AM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Jacob Clifton Read More | Comment »

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