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SXSW 2019 Movie Review: ‘The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley’

“I don’t have many secrets,” says Elizabeth Holmes in the opening moments of Alex Gibney’s riveting new documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 13, 20190
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Akio Sakurai in Mr. Jimmy. Photo courtesy of SXSW
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SXSW 2019 Movie Review: ‘Mr. Jimmy’

In a crowded, dimly lit Tokyo club, a guitarist rips through nearly three hours of Led Zeppelin covers. But the versions of “Stairway ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 9, 20190
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Movie Review: ‘The New Romantic’ [SXSW 2018]

“Romance is dead,” proclaims Blake Conway (Jessica Barden), a college senior and aspiring journalist who writes an anonymous romance column for the school’s ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 11, 20180
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Movie Review: ‘Wobble Palace’ [SXSW 2018]

Wobble Palace, premiering at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, is one of the most uncomfortable films I’ve ever sat through, an examination of ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 11, 20180
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Movie Review: ‘Heavy Trip’ [SXSW 2018]

Anguished screams can be heard emanating from the basement of a slaughterhouse in a small Finnish village, but it’s not the resident reindeer ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 11, 20180

SXSW 2017 Movie Review: ‘Baby Driver’

Premiering at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival ahead of its August release date, Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver nearly blew the roof off the ...
By Brent HankinsJune 27, 20170
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Interview: Erin Lee Carr on True Crime Doc ‘Mommy Dead and Dearest’

In June 2015 residents of Springfield, Missouri were shocked by the stabbing death of Dee Dee Blanchard, a woman well-known to locals as the ...
By Brent HankinsMay 12, 20170
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SXSW 2017 Movie Review: ‘The Hero’

Whether it’s that classic mustache or that unmistakable voice brimming with gravel and grit, Sam Elliott is a true old school icon in ...
By Kyle WilsonMarch 17, 20171
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SXSW 2017 Movie Review: ‘Colossal’

The first film we screened at SXSW 2017 started the festival out in a weird, BIG way – pun intended. Colossal, the new film ...
By Kyle WilsonMarch 16, 20170
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SXSW 2017 Interview: Tyler McIntyre and Jack Quaid on ‘Tragedy Girls’

The SXSW Film Festival has always been a welcome place for offbeat, outside-the-box filmmaking, and this year’s event was no exception, with the ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 16, 20170

SXSW 2017 Interview: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Talks ‘Small Crimes’ with Macon Blair and E.L. Katz

Premiering at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival en route to a Netflix debut later this year, Small Crimes finds Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Joe ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 14, 20170
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SXSW 2017 Interview: Director Valerie Weiss and the Cast of ‘The Archer’

The 2017 SXSW Film Festival is currently in full swing, and among the features making their world premiere in Austin, Texas this year ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 14, 20170
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SXSW 2017 Movie Review: ‘Small Crimes’

It’s been six years since former police detective Joe Denton (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was sent to prison for attempted murder, the culmination of a ...
By Bart CassidaMarch 11, 20170
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SXSW 2017 Movie Review: ‘The Archer’

When champion archery competitor Lauren Pierce (Bailey Noble) leads her team to victory at the end of the season, she and best friend ...
By Bart CassidaMarch 11, 20170
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SXSW 2017 Movie Review: ‘The Transfiguration’

Set against the backdrop of a crime-ridden New York City neighborhood, Michael O’ Shea’s debut feature follows 14-year-old Milo (Eric Ruffin), an introverted ...
By Bart CassidaMarch 10, 20170

2017 SXSW Film Festival Preview

In just a few days, we’ll be headed to Austin, Texas for the 2017 SXSW Film Festival to cover opening weekend (and to ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 8, 20170
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2017 SXSW Film Festival Announces Features Lineup

Now that Sundance is over, we’re once again marking our calendar and booking our flights to Austin, Texas for the 2017 SXSW Film Festival. ...
By Brent HankinsFebruary 1, 20170
Features

Terrence Malick’s ‘Song to Song’ Will Open 2017 SXSW Film Festival

In just over two months, film fans will once again flock to Austin, Texas for the 2017 SXSW Film Festival, and news came ...
By Brent HankinsJanuary 5, 20170
Interviews

SXSW Interview: ‘Teenage Cocktail’ Stars Nichole Bloom and Fabianne Therese

John Carchietta’s high school love story Teenage Cocktail was one of our favorite selections at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, a small-town romance with a ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 21, 20160
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SXSW Interview: ‘Miss Stevens’ Director Julia Hart and Stars Lily Rabe and Anthony Quintal

The 2016 SXSW Film Festival boasted an incredibly strong lineup of narrative features, but one of the true standouts this year was Miss ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 19, 20160

SXSW Interview: On the Red Carpet with AMC’s ‘Preacher’

One of our most anticipated screenings of the 2016 SXSW Film Festival was the world premiere of Preacher, the upcoming AMC television series ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 17, 20160
Interviews
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SXSW 2016 Movie Review: ‘The Arbalest’

The year is 1968, and first-time inventor Foster Kalt (Mike Brune) has traveled to a toy convention hoping to sell his creation. A ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 14, 20160
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SXSW 2016 Movie Review: ‘Midnight Special’

Midnight Special begins in the middle of the night, with Roy Tomlin (Michael Shannon) peers nervously out the window, surveying the parking lot for ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 14, 20160
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SXSW 2016 Movie Review: ‘collective:unconscious’

The idea behind collective:unconscious sounds fascinating: five indie directors coming together to create short films based on each other’s dreams. But just because an idea ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 13, 20160
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SXSW 2016 Movie Review: ‘Jules and Dolores’

In 1983, the Jules Rimet Trophy – awarded to the winner of the FIFA World Cup – was stolen from its display case ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 13, 20160

SXSW 2016 Movie Review: ‘Pet’

When Seth (Dominic Monaghan) recognizes former classmate Holly (Ksenia Solo) on a city bus, he tries to strike up a conversation. She doesn’t remember ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 12, 20160
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SXSW 2016 Movie Review: ‘Teenage Cocktail’

Moving to a new high school in the middle of small town America is bad enough, but an altercation with a fellow student finds ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 12, 20160
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SXSW 2016 Movie Review: ‘Don’t Breathe’

Director Fede Alvarez is certainly no stranger to the SXSW Film Festival – his ultraviolent remake of Sam Raimi’s horror classic Evil Dead ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 12, 20160
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SXSW 2016 Movie Review: ‘Everybody Wants Some’

More than two decades after Richard Linklater perfectly captured the feeling of being a mid-1970s high school student in his breakout film, Dazed ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 11, 20160
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2016 SXSW Film Festival Preview

The 2016 SXSW Film Festival gets underway in just a few days, and once again we’ll be in Austin, Texas to cover the ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 8, 20160

2016 SXSW Film Festival Announces Features Lineup

With our first trip to the Sundance Film Festival behind us, we’re looking ahead to the future, and our return to Austin, Texas ...
By Brent HankinsFebruary 2, 20160
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SXSW Interview: ‘Love & Mercy’ Press Conference Q&A

There’s no denying that Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson is one of the most talented and influential musicians of the 20th century, and ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 27, 20150
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SXSW Interview: ‘The Final Girls’ Director Todd Strauss-Schulson

The Final Girls was one of my favorite movies from the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, and seeing it with a late-night audience at ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 23, 20150
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SXSW Interview: Constance Zimmer on ‘Results’ and Returning to ‘Entourage’

Constance Zimmer is probably most recognizable for her role as Dana Gordon in the hit HBO series Entourage – although her portrayal of political reporter ...
By Brent HankinsMarch 19, 20150

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