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It was love at first sight in 1990 when I first began visiting (and occasionally living in) Austin, TX — and then a year...
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It was love at first sight in 1990 when I first began visiting (and occasionally living in) Austin, TX — and then a year...
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...
Attention New England cinephiles: Spring festival season is nigh as the 23nd annual Boston Underground Film Festival returns to Harvard Square’s arthouse hub The...
There are various traditions film lovers enjoy at the start of each new year, like applauding the Oscar nominations we approve of while complaining...
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...
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...
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...
Executive Produced by Vinnie Malhotra, Stephen Espinoza, Pat Kondelis, Michael H. Rockafellow, Jody M. Wingrove, Stephen Germer Produced by Lynsey Tamsen Jones Written and...
Full disclosure: after covering the jam-packed South-by-Southwest line-up for more than a decade, 2020 is the first and only time I’ve ever managed to...
Forget the weather: everyone knows the worst parts of winter are the cinematic dregs dumped into cineplexes this time of year while the art...
The controversy, chaos, and charisma of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers continues to cast a spell over audiences today. Celebrating its 25th anniversary with...
The 2019 Etheria Film Night returned to the Egyptian Theater for another year of celebrating emerging women directors of genre. And in addition to...
I didn’t get to see much as I wanted to see at this year’s Turner Classic Movies Film Festival, but caught some great panels...
The term “festival goggles” refers to the heightened reaction that a movie can receive when seen by viewers surrounded by the stars and filmmakers...
March is set to come in like a lion once more at the 31st running of the legendary Austin, TX pop culture lollapalooza known as...
Director Rachel Talalay has comes a long way from her start as John Waters production assistant on 1981’s Polyester. Fresh out of Yale, the...
Produced by Ally Kelly, Matthew Galkin Directed by Brent Hodge Starring Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini, Busy Phillips, James...
Celebrating female filmmakers who share their unique vision of horror, sci-fi and fantasy, the Etheria Film Festival returns to the Los Angeles for a...
Produced by Michael B. Clark, Alex Turtletaub, Jonathan Montepere, Cecilia Frugiuele Screenplay by Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele Based on the book by Emily M....
Produced by Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook, Diablo Cody, Mason Novick, Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix, Beth Kono Written by Diablo Cody Directed...
Had a great time at this year’s TCMFF. Despite a killer cold that kept me from seeing more than a few films, I got...
It was the best of times, it was the…well, pretty much usually the best. For 20 years, I’ve been volunteering for and enjoying the...