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SXSW Film Review: Sylvio

Most artists have trouble maintaining their creative integrity in the face of commercial demands, and small-town gorilla Sylvio Bernardi is no different.

5:40AM Sun. Mar. 12, Dan Gentile Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: A Bad Idea Gone Wrong

Who could have imagined that a film fusing the Catherine Zeta-Jones B-plot of Ocean’s Twelve with the Alfred Molina burglary scene in P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia would amount to a fully enjoyable, often even touching, indie comedy?

5:35AM Sun. Mar. 12, Sean L. Malin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Archer

Hollywood has already shown that audiences love a badass female action lead who knows how to use a bow, but The Archer proves that audiences should still be hungry for more.

5:30AM Sun. Mar. 12, Dan Gentile Read More | Comment »

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SXSW Film Review: Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press

Who would have thought that steroidal golden boy and wrestling legend Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against upstart online scandal sheet Gawker would result in the site’s total destruction? There’s gotta be more to that story than just a sordid sex tape, right?

3:20AM Sun. Mar. 12, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

SXSW Panel: Face Your Fears

There were ghosts in the machine for this preview of two of the year's tentpole horrors. After technical issues, Andrés Muschietti revealed a specially-cut teaser and first footage from his new version of Stephen King's It, while David F. Sandberg showed the first scenes from his addition to The Conjuring-verse, Annabelle 2.

1:55AM Sun. Mar. 12, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Maineland

As if being a teenager wasn’t hard enough, Chinese immigrants Stella and Harry have to navigate the ups and downs of life in an elite boarding high school in rural Maine.

1:37AM Sun. Mar. 12, Jessi Cape Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: This Is Your Death

Over-the-top satire and gratuitous bloodletting are the real stars – and perhaps Josh Duhamel – of Giancarlo Esposito’s timely (what isn’t these days?) film This Is Your Death.

1:25AM Sun. Mar. 12, Kahron Spearman Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Strange Ones

A long-awaited adaptation of the remarkable 2011 short film of the same name, The Strange Ones reiterates the immense focus and precision of its co-directors, Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff.

12:15AM Sun. Mar. 12, Sean L. Malin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

Austin-based Sam Wainwright Douglas’ new film is the sort of art documentary that there ought to be more of – not a hagiographic retrospective of some well-collected celebrity, but a vital record of a new project, from emerging artists, in the process of creation.

11:40PM Sat. Mar. 11, Michael Agresta Read More | Comment »

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