It Ends With Us

Mostly sensitive look at domestic abuse, based on Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel

"...Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Lana Turner, and turned directors like Douglas Sirk and Max Ophüls into if-you-know-you-know figures..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Peak Season

Indie dramedy about a Manhattan consultant mulling her life choices while on vacation in Jackson Hole

"...where the day takes her. (Typically, it’s somewhere gobsmack-gorgeous; co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner, who also shot the..."

Aug. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fortune and Glory: How The Spiel Celebrates Steven Spielberg

Eric Vespe discusses new podcast, life after Scott Wampler

"...open-ended love letter to one of the greatest film directors of all time and his enormous impact on cinema.”..."

July 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

A Québécois teen grapples with the ethical ramifications of bloodsucking

"...little more Aki Kaurismäki. Like the work of both directors, it’s profoundly romantic in its own distinctly quirky way,..."

July 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

A young ape dares to question if maybe humans aren't the enemy after all

May 10, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Fall Guy

Funny and fleet, this rom-com/actioner pays tribute to stuntpeople

"...It’s not uncommon for directors to have a “this one’s personal” story they want..."

May 3, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Beast

Sci-fi romantic drama about two lovers (Léa Seydoux and George MacKay) with multiple past lives, all tortured

April 26, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Joan Baez I Am a Noise

The public, private, and secret lives of the folk icon

"...much more personal, something akin to a healing experience. Directors Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle, and Karen O'Connor signal this..."

Dec. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nyad

Biopic of controversial record-setting swimmer just skims the surface

"...as the best friend and future coach, and when directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi reach for themes..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

When Evil Lurks

Argentinian horror pits farmers against Hell and an uncaring government

"...come to you, and he's one of those rare directors for whom the reveal is as shocking as the..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Expend4bles

Pointless action sequel should have gone straight to video

"...is the film’s middling usage of Iko Kuwais. Bigger directors have also tried and failed to give the Indonesian..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Re-Education of Molly Singer

Back-to-school comedy updates the curriculum for modern laughs

"...Jennifer Lawrence did in her bigger-budget release, and comedy directors should be putting her at the top of their..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Satanic Hispanics

Latino horror anthology hangs wild and loose in its pan-American chills

"...the earlier film was solely about Mexican filmmakers, the directors assembled here represent Latino cinema from across the Americas...."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Connecting the Dots: The Mayor, the Interim City Manager, Their Two Friends

The Nineties are back, baby – especially at City Hall

"...also acquainted. They both serve on the board of directors for the Headliners Club – an exclusive club for..."

Sept. 15, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Film Society Announces Recipients for Feature Film Grants

$110,000 distributed to 15 Texas projects

"...Directors: Lauren Yap, Hannah Varnell and Ivy Chiu (Austin) Documentary..."

Sept. 12, 2023 Screens Post by Mae Lackey

Beyond the Picket Lines: SAG, WGA, and the Austin Industry

Local film professionals explain how they're navigating the strike

"..."We still do have tons of directors attending, which is great, and also a lot of..."

Aug. 19, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Horror sets sail with the scariest section of Dracula

"...taken decades and a long list of writers and directors attempting to extend its elegant brevity into a full..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Afire

Summer retreat becomes a point of friction in this sure-footed melodrama

"...happens to be one of the most consistently compelling directors working, whose impressive body of work (Phoenix, Undine, Transit)..."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Barbie

The doll that changed the world faces the world she changed in this fizzy meta-comedy

"...also some slack business with the Mattel Board of Directors, and a more fruitful subplot featuring America Ferrera, in..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lynch/Oz

Is David Lynch's whole career an homage to The Wizard of Oz?

"...arguments that the film becomes most interesting. The Endless directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead fall down when they..."

June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Flash

Can we change history so this depressing IP smashup wasn't made?

"...a story by Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves writers/directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and a screenplay..."

June 16, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Animated Haruki Murakami adaptation finds his fabulist tendencies

"...of the author's work that have so far evaded directors who have sought something more capital-S serious, Blind Willow,..."

June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Ol' Webhead's latest adventure is a breathtaking masterpiece

"...a completely different artist and then digitally decoupaged together. Directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson..."

June 2, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Transit Partnership Recommends the Flexible Light Rail Option

Stretching the light rail

"...recommendation will be presented to the ATP board of directors on Wednesday. It then goes in front of a..."

May 23, 2023 News Post by Benton Graham

The Eight Mountains

Touching depiction of male friendship in the Italian Alps

"...from Paolo Cognetti's award-winning 2016 novel Le otto montagne, writer/directors and husband-and-wife Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch present..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Air

Feel-good history of the Air Jordan centers on the shoe, not the man

"...the man. As always, Affleck remains one of the directors who can disguise a powerful parable as giddy, crowd-pleasing..."

April 7, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

The high fantasy game rolls a critical hit with a boisterous adaptation

"...magical beasts, and terrible, world-ending conspiracies are everyday matters. Directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who also wrote..."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Satan Wants You

The Satanic panic as a guidebook to the dangers of crazy conspiracies

"...television. That is why it is so important that directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams take a pragmatic..."

March 12, 2023 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Film Review: Talk to Me

Séance chiller saves the best for first and last

"...finally veer out of control. Up to this point, writers/directors Danny and Michael Philippou lean into the comedic potential..."

March 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Documentary Exhumes a Personal History Folk Icon and Activist Joan Baez

The Diamonds & Rust of Joan Baez I Am a Noise

"...takes audiences somewhere completely unexpected. The new documentary from directors Karen O'Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O'Boyle (making its..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Doug Freeman

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