Advocates, Researchers Detail the Damage Being Done by Crisis Pregnancy Centers

SXSW panelists urge it’s time to “dismantle, defund” CPCs

"...they lure people in,” Aziz said at a Saturday SXSW Conference panel. “Telling people, ‘Come here because we do..."

March 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Naina Srivastava

SXSW Film Review: Hunting Daze

Midnighter is an unpleasant nightmare of toxic masculinity

"...If you’ve ever wondered how a filmmaker would visualize toxic masculinity – not in script or..."

March 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Film Review: My Dead Friend Zoe

A veteran processes her grief in emotional dark comedy

"...Despite being dead throughout the film, Zoe (Natalie Morales) breathes life into the film, contrasting..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Madeline Duncan

SXSW Film Review: Bob Trevino Likes It

Barbie Ferreira shines in charming film about chosen family

"...Trevino Likes It, the glowing charisma that keeps the film going when the secondhand embarrassment hits insane levels of..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Review: We Can Be Heroes

Cheering doc about summer camp for the awkward and adventurous

"...As the filmmakers said in the Q&A, every person at the camp..."

March 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Rod Machen

SXSW Film Review: We Strangers

Surreal psychodrama follows a grifting maid getting her due

"...“The film is the thing,” writer-director Anu Valia told the audience..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

SXSW Film Review: The Queen of My Dreams

Moving family dramedy jumps between Pakistan and Canada

"...There are films playing at SXSW that will take you to more..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Play’s the Thing in Grand Theft Hamlet

Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane take arms against a sea of virtual troubles

"...March 2020. The global film industry went into COVID lockdown. Like every filmmaker, British..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted

An endearing portrait of the R&B/country/etc. musician

"...By the time ...Pool Painted directors Isaac Gale (a filmmaker) and Ryan Olson (a musician and producer who had..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Joe Gross

SXSW Film Review: Cold Wallet

A well-cast thriller about crypto and its discontents

"...Cinema Catch up with all of The Austin Chronicle's SXSW 2024 coverage...."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Joe Gross

Short and Sweet: Los Mosquitos

A different look at the migrant experience outside of politics

"...Films about immigrants often become films about immigration, and the..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Mamifera

At 40, Lola navigates unexpected pregnancy and decisions

"...The film explores the stigma surrounding a woman’s right to choose..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

SXSW Film Review: Secret Mall Apartment

Profound documentary is more than just a strange story

"...in their local mall. But at its core, the film offers unique insights into gentrification, consumerism, and the impermanence..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Naina Srivastava

SXSW Film Review: Road House

Eighties classic gets a rock ’em, sock ’em remake

"...of the Eighties’ brawling classic was the opening night film at South by Southwest, and a packed Paramount Theatre..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Oddity

A wickedly fun blend of melodrama and horror

"...with most things in life, the most memorable horror films must risk being bad – take swings that won’t..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Film Review: Stormy

Doc explores life in the eye of Hurricane Trump

"...while she was on an upswing in the adult film industry, winning awards and making moves behind the camera..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Katherine McNevins

SXSW Film Review: A House Is Not a Disco

Portrait of the Pines on Fire Island moves and shakes

"...The film is not without tension: gay men of color have..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Joe Gross

SXSW Film Review: We Were Dangerous

Reform-school girls break the rules

"...her assistant sometime in the mid-20th century. In the film’s voiceover, which is delivered by the Matron, we are..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: The Hobby

Setting the table for a new era of board gamers

"...Do you believe in life after Monopoly? The filmmakers behind The Hobby certainly do...."

March 8, 2024 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

The Ties That Bind in Things Will Be Different

Michael Felker’s temporal noir is all about friends and family

"...and a noir. But at its heart it’s a film about, and birthed from, family...."

March 8, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Short and Sweet: The Passing

Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan take a tender look at a vet's work

"...The Best of Austin-winning filmmakers called Austin their home for years, but their films..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Stuff to Do at SXSW 2024

Party at the post-apocalypse, smell good doing it

"...Film / TV Tie-ins Wasteland of the Fallout..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Documentary Goes Inside the Eclectic World of John Aielli

The spirit of radio lives in Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience

"...easy. “We thought it would probably be a short film about John and maybe some other KUT hosts,” Hartstein..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

South By Memories

Austin filmmakers recall some of their most memorable moments at the hometown festival

"...a pot brownie to go to the UT RTF SXSW party. Keefe Boerner, who is the assistant director [of]..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Parks, Gardens, Pisces, and More Arts Events for the Week

Get out and get arty, away from the SXSW crowds

"...you’ve never seen Fantastic Planet, the feature-length French/Czechoslovakian sci-fi film from 1973, the first animated movie to be rated..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Perils of Immortal Passion in Timestalker

Alice Lowe finds the fool in her comedic take on time-crossed lovers

"...about my life.” The Sightseers star made her first film as a director, SXSW 2016 maternity horror Prevenge, when..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Falling for The Fall Guy and the Joy of Practical Stunts

Powerhouse moviemaking couple David Leitch and Kelly McCormick team up with Ryan Gosling

"...Guy, which receives its world premiere as the centerpiece film at this year’s South by Southwest Film & TV..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Monstrous Bonds of Sasquatch Sunset

The Zellner bros. find actions speak louder than words in their cryptid family drama

"...Family inevitably pervades the films of David and Nathan Zellner simply by virtue of..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Experts on What to Do if You Come Face-to-Face With an Alien

Put up your dukes or extend a hand?

"...over a dozen space-related talks and even more otherworldly-themed film and music showcases. While the brightest minds prepare for..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Madeline Duncan

An Army of Women Tells the Story of a Criminal Justice Crusade in Austin

Julie Lunde Lillesæter shines a light on the women who made Austin a better place for rape survivors

"...It still shocks filmmaker Julie Lunde Lillesæter when Austinites don’t know about the..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

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