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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...
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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...
I recently posted my Top Five favorite movies from the virtual edition of the 2021 South by Southwest multimedia festival — but here are...
With a year to prepare after becoming one of the first major American events derailed by the coronavirus in 2020, the virtual 2021 South...
What a long, strange trip it’s been. When I wrote my preview of the 2020 South-by-Southwest Festival just about a year ago, there were...
If I’m remembering the family lore correctly, my parents brought three-year-old me to a screening of Love Story in 1970, meaning that it’s literally...
Though SXSW 2020 was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, a digital sampler plate of the festival’s scheduled lineup nevertheless yielded three amazing documentaries...