SXSW Film Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

The architect of rock & roll gets a detailed but thin biography

"...chapter on Little Richard would be heresy, and this SXSW-selected CNN production (acquired by Magnolia Pictures after its Sundance..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Late Night With the Devil

Supernatural satire shows the hellish price of success

"...Cameron and Colin Cairnes’s film starts with a narrated profile of fictional 1970s late..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Trace Sauveur

SXSW Film Review: Tetris

The story of the classic video game as international thriller

"...thrilling thriller in Tetris, which premiered last night at SXSW...."

March 16, 2023 Screens Post by Joe Gross

SXSW Music 2023: The Best Things We Saw on Wednesday

A primo Tiger Den showcase, iLe, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and more

"...Find over a dozen highlights from day three of..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Julian Towers

SXSW Film Review: Citizen Sleuth

Doc is a dogged investigation of true crime podcasting

March 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Katherine McNevins

SXSW Film Review: Self Reliance

The Most Dangerous Game spoof lacks bite

March 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Trace Sauveur

SXSW Film Review: Late Bloomers

The kindness of strangers creates beauty, growth, and laughs

March 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Film Review: My Drywall Cocoon

Brazilian drama stylishly reduces its characters to metaphors

March 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

Best of the Film Fest

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"...Wick: Chapter 4 still works as a cohesive, linear film with a strangely philosophical heart. After three movies of..."

March 17, 2023 Screens Feature

SXSW Announces 2023 Film Grand Jury Award Winners

Raging Grace tops best narrative category

March 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Qmmunity: House of South By

House of Lepore makes ballroom culture an official part of SXSW

"...Mother Natalie Lepore. In 2022, the Lepores brought to SXSW its first official ball, the Dirty South Ball, with..."

March 17, 2023 Column by James Scott

Tuesday SXSW Music Sessions: Indigo Girls & Susan Rogers

Two discussions on activism and creativity at South by Southwest

"...Moderated by Abby Johnston, editor at The 19th and..."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

SXSW Film Review: It's Only Life After All

Indie folk legends Indigo Girls as warm and humble rock stars

"...In the SXSW documentary It’s Only Life After All, Emily Saliers and..."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Katherine McNevins

SXSW Review: STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

The actor and Parkinson's advocate lays his life bare

"...In STILL, director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, He..."

March 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The Artifice Girl

The ethics of creating artificial life in three captivating chapters

"...idiotic but entertaining M3GAN, it's reasonable to worry that SXSW Midnighter selection The Artifice Girl might be just another..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces 2023 Film Grand Jury Award Winners

Raging Grace tops best narrative category

"...What's a film festival without an awards ceremony? As South by Southwest..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panel Recap: The Biz of Being Human: Volumetric Humans at Scale

Exactly what about people are volumetrics capturing?

"...their image in three full dimensions for use in film and TV and so on, and for projecting into..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW Gets Mesmerized by First Look at Robert Rodriguez's Hypnotic

The Austin filmmaker blows the roof off the Paramount

"...screenings throughout weekend one of the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival – opening night crowd-pleaser Dungeons &..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Being Mary Tyler Moore

New documentary reminds us there was more than just The Flip

"...In James Adolphus' SXSW-selected documentary Being Mary Tyler Moore, there's an intent to..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Problemista

Los Espookys' Julio Torres makes his playful film debut

"...sweet ode to horror lovers everywhere. His first feature film follow-up, SXSW headliner Problemista, doesn’t miss, and his witty,..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Panel Recap: The COHERENCE Effect: Manifesting Shatter Belt

Superfan Patton Oswalt picks the brain behind the cult classic

"...Fantastic Fest. Now, nearly ten years later, that little film that could has a pool of dedicated fans...."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Panel Recap: Beyond Podcasting: How Ashley Flowers Redefined True Crime Storytelling

How the Crime Junkie host built a media empire

"...have a “low barrier to entry” as opposed to film or television, but that podcasters shouldn’t approach a new..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Katherine McNevins

SXSW Film Review: Aberrance

Mongolian thriller expands global cinema

"...With Aberrance, the SXSW film programming team is getting eyes on an underserved..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

SXSW Announces Ben Affleck’s Air as Surprise Closing Night Film

Air Jordan origin story stars Matt Damon

"...It’s been six years since Ben Affleck’s last film, the underperforming Live By Night, but the wait was..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Review: I Used To Be Funny

Healing drama uses its laughs as therapy

"...That scattered struggle is difficult to resonate on film without drowning in sorrow, but the tonal balance of..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Review: Until Branches Bend

Gorgeous eco-drama about how a tiny beetle upends a town

"...Shot on 16 mm film, SXSW selection Until Branches Bend saturates the screen with..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

The Best Music We’ve Seen So Far at SXSW 2023

An insightful Jeff Tweedy, sunshiney Armani White, and more

"...favorites. The insightful performance exceeded expectations of a platform-supported SXSW Interactive appearance. The 55-year-old Chicagoan discussed his family with..."

March 14, 2023 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Terry Crews Launches Mock Idiocracy Presidential Campaign with a Thundercat Concert

Back from the future, President Camacho hosted a dystopian SXSW rally

"...returning from the year 2524 in Mike Judge's 2006 Austin-filmed satire, Idiocracy...."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Kriss Conklin

SXSW Film Review: John Wick: Chapter 4

Baba Yaga is back in his loudest, craziest adventure yet

"...Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - and the film knows it. With this story arc clearly coming to..."

March 13, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: BlackBerry

The rise and fall of the original smartphone as a tragic satire

"...D Catch up with all of The Austin Chronicle's SXSW 2023 coverage...."

March 13, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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