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SXSW Film Review: The World Before Your Feet

MacGuffin was Alfred Hitchcock's term for the goal that doesn't matter except to keep the plot moving forward. Think the quest for the ring in the Lord of the Rings films. For Matt Green, the MacGuffin is to have walked every street in the five boroughs of New York City, some 8,000 miles and counting.

7:00AM Tue. Mar. 13, Joe O'Connell Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Recap: Ready Player One Premiere

Steven Spielberg himself was the first in a series of surprises at the world premiere of Ready Player One. Joan Jett dropped in to headline the afterparty, but the night's real unlocked achievement? The world now has a crowd-pleasing video game movie.

9:42PM Mon. Mar. 12, Moisés Chiullán Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Recap: The Director and the Jedi Q&A

“We’re here to talk about Brigsby Bear,” Mark Hamill said. There were probably more people in the packed Paramount than had seen Hamill's quirky 2017 comedy, but the loyal audience that grew up with the Star Wars: The Last Jedi star would have sat through an hour of his knock-knock jokes.

5:30PM Mon. Mar. 12, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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Beers for Beto

Native Hostel

Hot Luck presents Hot Snakes, Drakulas [outdoor] at Mohawk

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children at AFS Cinema

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Nurture vs. Bloody Nature

To modern eyes, “Little Red Riding Hood” is a metaphor for burgeoning sexuality, but when it was first told in the thick, shadow-cloaked forests of Central Europe, the wolf at the door was very real. Sometimes a wolf is just a wolf, and that’s a sharp-fanged truth of Wildling. Yet that does not mean there should be no empathy for the monster.

4:00PM Mon. Mar. 12, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Panel: Film + Storytelling in a Politically-Charged Era

When the American people feel their voices are overlooked by their government, the responsibility of uplifting the underrepresented falls onto arguably the next most influential authority: filmmakers.

2:08PM Mon. Mar. 12, Tinu Thomas Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Heavy Trip

This Finnish black metal comedy has its heart in the right place (severed from the body, of course, and served on a stake), but never quite transcends its quirky humor to become the epic it sets out to be.

1:30PM Mon. Mar. 12, Josh Kupecki Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: You Can Choose Your Family

Portraying a believable, at times endearing – but adulterous – dad antihero can’t be easy. So, for her feature-length, narrative directorial debut, Miranda Bailey did the only reasonable thing: She cast beloved dad and comic, Jim Gaffigan.

1:00PM Mon. Mar. 12, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

SXSW Panel Recap: Sex & Text: Breaking Down Movie Stereotypes w/ AI

Thirty percent. That’s the average amount of speaking time women characters enjoy in the typical Hollywood movie.

12:46PM Mon. Mar. 12, Sarah Marloff Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Dawn Wall

The Dawn Wall is a documentary about obstacles. Physically climbing this stretch of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park was considered impossible, but that didn’t stop 22-year-old Tommy Caldwell, the world’s greatest free climber, from dedicating nearly a decade to learning every crevice. In 2015, he reached the top. The climb took 19 days.

12:35PM Mon. Mar. 12, Dan Gentile Read More | Comment »

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