‘Self Reliance’ review: Jake Johnson’s spoof on high concept game show premise plays it a bit too safe | SXSW
Right before we were about to see Jake Johnson’s feature length directorial debut Self Reliance at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, he came on stage... Read More
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‘I Used to Be Funny’ review: Rachel Sennott is spectacular in Ally Pankiw’s confrontation of comedy and trauma | SXSW
How do comedians deal with PTSD? Typically, it’s to tell jokes to mask or subvert the trauma, but that doesn’t necessarily make the pain go... Read More
‘Bottoms’ review: Emma Seligman’s unapologetically queer-centric high school sex comedy is a revelation for the subgenre | SXSW
As Emma Seligman’s sophomore feature film, Bottoms, begins, we are introduced to PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri), our two protagonists who we will... Read More
Interview: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ breakout star Stephanie Hsu on the joy of Joy, working with Michelle Yeoh and if she’s sick of bagels yet
Earlier this year, at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, the world premiere of the Daniel’s Everything Everywhere All at Once blew audiences away, going on... 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
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
2022 SXSW lineup announced: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ to open fest, ‘Atlanta’ season 3 premiere to close, plus Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock in ‘The Lost City’
South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals (March 11-20, 2022) has announced the full program for the 29th edition of the SXSW Film Festival with the... Read More
Interview: Megan Park, director of SXSW winner ‘The Fallout’ on the tricky line of exploring trauma without exploitation
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
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
SXSW Review: ‘I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking)’ is just, well, fine
Set during, yet never mentioning, the ongoing pandemic, I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) follows widowed Danny (Kelley Kali), mother of a young daughter named Wes... Read More
SXSW Review: ‘Ludi’ deftly explores identity and the American Dream with a breakout performance by Shein Mompremier
The greatest thing one can say about art is how it broadens their horizons. Director Edson Jean’s debut feature Ludi certainly had that type of... Read More
Comedian Nate Bargatze to Host 2025 Emmy Awards 
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Interview: ‘The Encampments’ Director Kei Pritsker on the Urgency of Speaking Up and Speaking Out Against Injustice