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75th ACE Eddie Awards Predictions: Is Another ‘Anora’ Win Coming to Close the Season?

Erik Anderson March 12, 2025

Just when you thought it was over, they pull you back in. The 2024/2025 awards season isn’t quite over, folks. The ACE Eddie Awards, which... Read More

‘Friendship’ Review: Tim Robinson Goes Off the Rails in this Hilarious, Bizarre Platonic Breakup Comedy [B+] | SXSW

Trace Sauveur March 12, 2025

It’s all too easy to say that Friendship, the debut film from writer-director Andrew DeYoung starring Tim Robinson, plays like a feature-length version of I... Read More

‘Glorious Summer’ Review: Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak Create a Gilded Cage of False Freedom in Richly Lanthimosian Odyssey [B+] | SXSW

Matt St. Clair March 12, 2025

Glorious Summer is a well-lensed, intriguing odyssey into a sun-drenched hellscape. In its own way, it shows that much as life away from the commonplace... Read More

‘40 Acres’ Review: A Familiar Post-Apocalypse Setting Gives Way to Socio-Political Critique and Cannibal Horror [B+] | SXSW

Trace Sauveur March 11, 2025

You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a post-apocalyptic film that doesn’t feel cobbled together from a storied history of derivative parts. Stories of loners, families,... Read More

‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Review: Scream Queens and a Killer Joker Slash Their Way Through Clever Horror Throwback [B] | SXSW

Kevin L. Lee March 11, 2025

The horror genre is arguably the most forgiving genre when it comes to reinventing the chainsaw, as in you really don’t have to do much... Read More

‘Descendent’ Review: A Moving and Reflective Tale of Fatherhood, Male Loneliness, and Aliens [B+] | SXSW

Kevin L. Lee March 11, 2025

What do you get when you mix fatherhood anxiety with male loneliness and a touch of aliens? The result is Descendent, a thoughtful piece of... Read More

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck Voice Actor Eric Bauza to Host 3rd Children’s & Family Emmy Awards

Erik Anderson March 10, 2025

Duff Goldman, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Paul Walter Hauser, Bobby Moynihan, Cree Summer, Jacob Tremblay Among Presenters The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today... Read More

‘The Baltimorons’ Review: Jay Duplass Returns with an Endearing, Bittersweet Christmas Eve Romance [B] | SXSW

Trace Sauveur March 10, 2025

The Baltimorons is Jay Duplass’ first original feature film in 14 years. One half of the American independent cinema duo heavyweights of the aughts and... Read More

SXSW 2025 Reviews: ‘Another Simple Favor,’ Death of a Unicorn,’ ‘The Accountant 2’

Ryan McQuade March 10, 2025

In my first dispatch for the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, I take a look at three of the headliners from the festival line-up that features... Read More

‘Together’ Review: Dave Franco and Alison Brie Dare and Delight in a Blood-Soaked Flesh for Fantasy [A-] | SXSW

Tyler Doster March 9, 2025

I’ve always been scared my eventual life partner would kill me. Perhaps not in the traditional sense of being murdered, but the loss of life... Read More

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