SXSW Film Review: The Master Cleanse

The perils of purification

"...enliven the film and tilt the plot toward sly comedy instead of icky scatological yuks. The special effects also..."

March 19, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Music: Barry Adamson

Bad Seed’s Technicolor soundscapes get steamy

"...depressingly small crowd Friday at Esther’s Follies, Austin’s venerable comedy mainstay...."

March 19, 2016 SXSW Post by Michael Toland

SXSW Film Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Family-friendly comedy is quirky fun

"...encounter at a festival – a broad, crowd-pleasing PG comedy from the director of an upcoming superhero sequel (Taika..."

March 12, 2016 Screens Post by Michael Agresta

SXSW Film Review: 'Stage Fright'

Sharp notes meet sharp knives in the delicious operatic bloodfest

"...musical Stage Fright balances Carrie sight gags with xylophone comedy. It begins on a night 10 years ago, when..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: '13 Sins'

Daniel Stamm's remake is a portrait of a desperate man

"...it never shifts from a thriller to a dark comedy. As the tasks quickly escalate, the film grows increasingly..."

March 8, 2014 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Film Reviews: 'Everyone's Going to Die'

Engrossing lead performances carry this British dark comedy

"...In the dark comedy Everyone's Going to Die, Ray (Knighton), an unhappily married,..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Film Reviews: 'Milo'

The filmmakers deftly tread the line between stomach-churning and sweetly amusing

"...Duncan names the murderous little guy Milo. This horror comedy is in equal measures grossly stomach-churning and sweetly amusing,..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Yellow'

Nick Cassavetes' latest is short on plot and long on trippy indulgences

"...Miller adds some superb (and vulgar) splashes of wacko comedy. Cassavetes employs a variety of bold and inventive techniques..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Patrick Courtney

Trailer Park: SXSW Film Day 2

Three picks (and clips) from today's screenings

"...out of park? Find out in this "real life comedy," directed by Andrea Thiele...."

March 9, 2013 SXSW Post by Monica Riese

The Babymakers

'The Babymakers'

"...the film will depend largely on your enthusiasm for comedy involving bodily fluids, especially during the third-act caper to..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

'Kid-Thing'

'Kid-Thing'

"...opens with a demolition derby, but it isn't a comedy. It stars a child, but no one "comes of..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

'Funeral Kings'

'Funeral Kings'

"...that bark and bite while drawing moments of real comedy from their young stars. It also doesn't hurt that..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...Weekend manages to ride the line between character study, comedy, drama, and a host of other genres without feeling..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...movie she's in is fluent in it. This slasher comedy replicates the operatic, overstimulated whirlwind that is contemporary adolescence..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...and call it a day. But Natural Selection, a comedy, free of heavy-handed messages, focuses on the growth of..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...in peace. Hijinks ensue. Part totally predictable, goofy romantic comedy, part concert film (the movie was filmed over the..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...Burns, who stitches a serious social message into screwball comedy with few seams showing. With Ayn Rand's quote "the..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne Harris

SXSW Film Reviews

"..."La Nostalgia del Sr. Alambre," a deft blend of comedy, pathos, and the grotesque that sets the tone for..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

SXSW Film Reviews

"...A French sex comedy of sorts (though spoken largely in English), A NY..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film

Clay Liford's sideways kind of sci-fi, Earthling

"...work," Liford says modestly. Oddly, it all begins with comedy for Liford, whose next film Minor in Possession –..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...of putting on a single episode of the late-night sketch-comedy show in a tidy 94 minutes. Franco's candid approach..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...In the horror-comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, a group of college..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...where Hicks was more a rock star than the comedy-club joke jockey he was in his homeland. Directors (and..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Women in Trouble

"...more or less how it goes in this derivative comedy that might have been cobbled together from pages left..."

March 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film

Daily Reviews and Interviews

"...stale, he's unfairly branded a racist based on decades-old comedy material, and he's a complete flop at the gubernatorial..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Amy Smith

SXSW Film

Daily Reviews and Interviews

"...(airing stateside on IFC, beginning May) comes this devious comedy about glory days and life imitating art. Tabloid journalist..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film

Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones' Breaking Upwards

"...but also in possession of an archetypal classic Hollywood romantic-comedy structure. The dialogue zings off the screen, so true..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

SXSW Film Review: Reel Shorts 1

Humor's in the eye of the beholder

"...this program – introduced as unusually heavy on the comedy – an audience member asked if she’d misheard the..."

March 16, 2009 Screens Post by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...Timothy is fantastic… "Happiness," by Sophie Barthes, is a comedy asking the question, "What if happiness were for sale?"..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by John Razook

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...Houstonian Harrison knows the romantic-comedy formula: uptight heroine (German) bickering with a cute guy..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

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