Sundance 2023 Review: Birth/Rebirth

Maternal horror with a clinical twist

"...Screening as part of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival before debuting on horror streaming service..."

Jan. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance 2023 Review: STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

The actor and the disease he refuses to let define him

"...the Apple TV+ documentary (which premiered at this week's Sundance Film Festival), he is first and foremost someone living..."

Jan. 25, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance 2023 Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

The architect of rock & roll gets his flowers in new documentary

"...this CNN production (acquired by Magnolia Pictures after its Sundance Film Festival premiere) does everything it can to remind..."

Jan. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance 2023 Review: The Amazing Maurice

Terry Pratchett's feline fraudster gets above-average adaptation

"...The 2023 Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 19-29. Info and online..."

Jan. 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance 2023 Review: Iron Butterflies

Experimental doc unfurls Russian lies about the downing of Flight MH17

"...The 2023 Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 19-29. Info and online..."

Jan. 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance 2023 Review: Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Album cover maestro Anton Corbijn highlights the art mavericks

"...The 2023 Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 19-29. Info and online..."

Jan. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Short & Sweet: “When You Left Me on That Boulevard”

Austin filmmaker Kayla Abuda Galang brings her Sundance-winning short film home

"...writer, director, producer, and editor now brings home her Sundance 2023 Short Film Grand Jury Prize winner, "When You..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

Porcelain War

Doc about Ukrainian artists persevering in time of war

"...having won the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. As America faces an era when the..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

Bio-doc of the psych rock pioneer leaves his later obscurity suitably untouched

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How to Have Sex

Un Certain Regard winner explores first sex and consent from the perspective of a British teenager on a holiday in Crete

"...has been suitably lauded since it picked up the 2023 Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes (it wrapped up..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Society Announces Recipients for Feature Film Grants

$110,000 distributed to 15 Texas projects

"...project. For the recipients of the Austin Film Society’s 2023 AFS Grant for Feature Films, the leap toward a..."

Sept. 12, 2023 Screens Post by Mae Lackey

SXSW Adds Iron Man, Captain Kirk, New Order to Speaker List

Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra headed to Austin

"...in film festival headliner Problemista, will sit down with Sundance Film Festival director Eugene Hernandez, while the cast and..."

Feb. 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...It's one of two headliners added today to the..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Danny and Michael Philippou Say Talk to Me

Creators of the new A24 horror on the foolishness of youth

"...It was Nelly that first told them about the Sundance Film Festival. Danny recalled, "She told us that one..."

July 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmakers Head to Tribeca

Local films Leads and Man Finds Tape are NYC bound

"...of Hate star Heather Kafka as Mags, a one-time Sundance star now contending with life as an acting teacher,..."

April 16, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: It's Only Life After All

Indie folk legends Indigo Girls as warm and humble rock stars

"...overcoming incredible obstacles. This latest project, which premiered at Sundance, does the same with the musical duo...."

March 15, 2023 SXSW Post by Katherine McNevins

Saint Teresa: Richard Linklater and John Pierson on the Icon of Slacker

The director of Slacker and the film's sales agent discuss the creative importance of actor and musician Teresa Taylor

"...He told it again a few years ago at Sundance, where I was interviewing him on the occasion of..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Screens Feature

First Trailer: Richard Linklater's Hit Man

See Glen Powell in action as an assassin with a secret

"...Johnson's story was recounted in a 2001 Texas Monthly..."

Jan. 22, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

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

"...SXSW-selected CNN production (acquired by Magnolia Pictures after its Sundance Film Festival premiere) does everything it can to remind..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Mike Melinoe’s Playfully Sinister “Casper” and Four More Songs From Austin Artists

New music picks from Loveme, sayang, Shaz, and more

"...caught on to singer-songwriter Rajinee Buquing, also cinematographer behind 2023 Sundance-winning short "When You Left Me on That Boulevard,"..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Doomed. Bourgeois. In Austin: The Films of Whit Stillman

Indie legend on Austin, Austen, and his landmark trilogy

"...the quasi-autobiographical Metropolitan became the toast of the 1990 Sundance Film Festival. It became the cornerstone of a loose..."

Oct. 11, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Austin Made DC’s Blue Beetle Fly

Director and Fantastic Fest regular Ángel Manuel Soto reveals his own secret origin

"...who's now my manager." That meeting lead to his Sundance 2020 award-winning second feature, Charm City Kings, "and in..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Essential Films at the Austin Asian American Film Festival

Across nations and diasporas, AAAFF explores the most intriguing, experimental, and entertaining movies from Asian filmmakers

"...Austin-based filmmaker Kayla Abuda Galang brings her Sundance award-winning and SXSW-selected short back to her current hometown...."

June 23, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Tribute Convenes Keith Richards, Snoop Dogg, Norah Jones, and More at the Hollywood Bowl

Two-night song extravaganza pulled stars from across generations

"...Beyond the songs, Willie Nelson’s greatest legacy may be..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

A Contemporary Prometheus in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

Bomani J. Story retells Frankenstein as a Black horror

"...social commentary. Think Jordan Peele’s Get Out or the Sundance 2022 grand jury prize winner, Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny...."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra