South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW) Archives

‘A Vigilante:’ Abuse Survivor Olivia Wilde Seeks Bloody Retribution [SXSW Review]

March 20, 2018 11:00 am

Revenge fantasy in cinema will never go out of style, but in a more sensitive age, vigilante films without a thoughtful touch can meet their own swift and merciless end. Take Eli Roth's neo-conservative wet dre...

‘Wobble Palace’ Is A Gorgeous, Narcissistic Relationship Nightmare [SXSW Review]

Lena Wilson

March 19, 2018 1:35 pm

News, Reviews

If there’s one thing millennials are more obsessed with than social media, selfies and irreverent art, it’s ourselves. Occasionally we find an excuse to bring all four together, as Molly Soda does in her perfor...

anchor and hope sxsw Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin,

‘Anchor And Hope’: Two ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actors Help Float A Bittersweet Lesbian Relationship Drama [Review]

Ally Johnson

March 18, 2018 6:10 pm

News, Reviews

In his 2014 Goya-winning feature debut, "10,000 KM,” Spanish director Carlos Marques-Marcet compellingly explored the emotional and spiritual exhaustion of long distance relationships. In the filmmaker's sophom...

‘A Bluebird in My Heart’ Is A Visually Stunning, Tedious Crime-Thriller [SXSW Review]

Kyle Kohner

March 18, 2018 2:20 pm

Festivals, Reviews

“There’s a bluebird in my heart that, wants to get out, but I pour whiskey on him and inhale, cigarette smoke, and the whores and the bartenders, and the grocery clerks, never know that he's in there,” gritty, ...

Netflix Doc ‘Take Your Pills’ Is A Dizzying But Thoughtful Look At The Adderall Generation [SXSW Review]

Gary Garrison

March 10, 2018 10:42 am

News

For a few years now, headlines around the world have made note of the Most Medicated Generation, the millennials who have been prescribed pills for everything from behavioral issues to depression and anxiety. B...

Incisive Instagram Doc ‘Social Animals’ Is Essential Viewing [SXSW Review]

Elazar Fine

March 9, 2018 1:15 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Billed as “a feature documentary about the Instagram generation,” Jonathan Ignatius Green’s "Social Animals," from the outside, sounds like the least appealing elevator pitch ever. It conjures up images of inte...

David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Columbia Pictures' LIFE.

‘Life’ With Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson & Ryan Reynolds Is A Pleasurably Old Fashioned Sci-Fi Thriller [SXSW Review]

Drew Taylor

March 19, 2017 11:16 am

News, Reviews

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The whole murderous-alien-aboard-a-spaceship trope has been around since at least 1958's "It! The Terror From Beyond Space," which was initially viewed as a typical, below-average drive-in movie about a doomed ...

A Great Ensemble Offers A Serious History Lesson In Comedy In Showtime’s ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ [SXSW Review]

Erik Childress

March 17, 2017 1:58 pm

News, Reviews, Television

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It’s a cliché, albeit a tragic one at this point, to suggest that comedy and depression go hand-in-hand. As chronicled by Dick Cavett in connection with CNN’s recent series on "The History Of Comedy," the late ...

War Is Coming In Bloody New Trailer For ‘American Gods’

Kevin Jagernauth

March 15, 2017 1:46 pm

News, Television, Trailers

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To be clear: I'm not familiar with Neil Gaiman's source material, so my only information on "American Gods" is down to the cast (hey, Ian McShane and Crispin Glover!) and from Twitter, where I've learned there ...

‘Atomic Blonde’ Delivers Great Action In Too Minimal A Capacity [SXSW Review]

Erik Childress

March 15, 2017 10:07 am

News, Reviews

Someone once said to me that they wished James Cameron would do other people’s action scenes for them. This was back in the heyday when the one-time “King of the World” was the preeminent action filmmaker of "T...

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