AwardsWatch - SXSW Festival

‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ review: Quest love and the friends you met along the way | SXSW

Ryan McQuade March 12, 2023

Behind the core of the role playing fantasy board game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) lies the simple idea that makes audiences go to the movies;... Read More

‘National Anthem’ review: Luke Gilford explores the wondrous, inviting world of America’s queer rodeo | SXSW

Abe Friedtanzer March 10, 2023

Midway through National Anthem, Dylan (Charlie Plummer) asks Sky (Eve Lindley) why she’s interested in him, self-proclaiming that he’s boring. “I don’t think you’re boring,”... Read More

‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ review: Takes a foothold on your heart and never lets go [Grade: A-] | SXSW

Ryan McQuade March 19, 2022

As time has gone on, and you grow up, one starts to notice that we live in a cynical, harsh world lacking the impulse to... Read More

‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ review: A committed, youthful ensemble isn’t enough to keep this horror house party going [Grade: C] | SXSW

Ryan McQuade March 16, 2022

Tell me if you have heard this one before? A group of friends, who haven’t seen each other in a while, are trapped in a... Read More

‘Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood’ review: To nostalgia and beyond [Grade: B] | SXSW

Ryan McQuade March 14, 2022

Over the last couple of years, we have seen directors take themselves back to times in their lives, and retell events or stories of their... Read More

‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ review: Being Nic Fucking Cage [Grade: B+] | SXSW

Ryan McQuade March 14, 2022

“Who is Nicolas Cage?” It was the final question to our interview we had a couple of months back with the veteran, legendary actor in... Read More

‘The Lost City’ review: Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum charm in a cute but stale retread of familiar jungle territory [Grade: B-] | SXSW

Ryan McQuade March 14, 2022

The phrase “they don’t make them like they used to” is floated around a lot with modern art, whether it is movies, books, television, or... Read More

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ review: The Daniels return with an off-the-wall multiverse where Michelle Yeoh delivers her best work to date [Grade: B+] | SXSW

Ryan McQuade March 12, 2022

Life is full of difficult choices that define who we are and what our future will be. Once they are made, there is no going... Read More

Interview: Megan Park, director of SXSW winner ‘The Fallout’ on the tricky line of exploring trauma without exploitation

Clint Worthington March 23, 2021

In a March wracked by mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, it’s grotesquely fitting that writer-director Megan Park’s debut feature, The Fallout, greeted audiences at... Read More

SXSW Review: ‘Women Is Losers’ aims high but falls short despite winning performance from Lorenza Izzo

Michael Frank March 23, 2021

Set in 1960s and 1970s San Francisco, Women Is Losers, cannot be faulted for its ambition. With a higher production value than most first features,... Read More

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