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The United States of America seems to exist in a perpetual Groundhog Day circuit of endless repetition. Civil rights battles are waged, won, and erased. The cultural...
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The United States of America seems to exist in a perpetual Groundhog Day circuit of endless repetition. Civil rights battles are waged, won, and erased. The cultural...
The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined tragedy as an action “that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.” But in the United States, there...
Full disclosure: while running an Olympic-themed movie competition in 2024, your humble FOG! correspondent was pleased (and a bit confused) to discover the surprisingly...
With the notable exceptions of Witness and Kingpin (and, more recently, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking), big screen depictions of the stubbornly old school, modernity-eschewing...
It shouldn’t be all that surprising that the big money multimedia hype bomb of a festival responsible for the world’s largest Doritos vending machine...
If you can’t say something nice about a year, then…it was probably 2024.< Nevertheless, the latest annus horriblis did manage to provide some great big and...
While the historical-clips-plus-talking-heads style of this documentary may be conventional, its subject was anything but: namely FLOTUS Lady Bird Johnson’s indomitable press secretary, Mary...
“You can’t stop the production just because somebody dies.” So says Pinny Grylls, co-director of the singular (and 2024 SXSW Documentary Feature Competition Jury...
From the earliest Gen Con wargaming clubs in the 1960s to the Freaks and Geeks and Stranger Things kids rolling 20-sided dice in suburban...
Though not technically a musical, writer/director Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams is peppered with engaging song and dance numbers (both in the...
In 2020, 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen created a sweepingly cinematic anthology miniseries for the BBC called Small Axe about the lives...
It was love at first sight in 1990 when I first began visiting (and occasionally living in) Austin, TX — and then a year...
1. RESERVATION DOGS (FX on Hulu) The Rez Dogs stuck the landing in a final season packed with everything that made the quietly...
1. AMERICAN FICTION Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, writer/director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is a quietly angry, laugh-out-loud goof on...
There are only so many hours in a day — especially when Daylight Savings springs forward right in the middle of the SXSW Film & TV...
Founded in 1987 as a music festival, the Austin, TX event known as South by Southwest (a.k.a., SXSW) added films to the mix in...
There are various traditions film lovers enjoy at the start of each new year, like applauding the Oscar nominations we approve of while complaining...
Great Moments in Advice from Highly-Paid Consultants: * Get rid of Nerve’s writers! (Site implodes) * Get rid of the AV Club’s writers! (Site...
As always, it was impossible to see everything at the 2022 edition of the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, TX — especially...
In 2020, the cancellation of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas was an early indication that COVID-19 was just about to bring the entire...
Wildcards (potentially list-worthy movies as yet unseen by moi): Antlers, Pig, Last Night in Soho, Coda, The Sparks Brothers, West Side Story, The Tragedy...
* Wildcards (potentially list-worthy 2021 shows as yet unseen by moi): Yellowjackets, Squid Game, Dopesick, Station Eleven, Hacks, We Are Lady Parts, For All...
Just saw No Time To Die and…um, so…all the “controversy” surrounding it was clearly a marketing scheme, right? Like, there aren’t REALLY any dinosaurs...
Even at a safe social distance, through the prism of phone, tablet, and laptop screens, the virtual 2021 edition of the South by Southwest...