The main characters in “Civil War” are four journalists played by Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, and Stephen McKinley Henderson. The film introduces the journalists as they cover a clash in New York City between what appear to be ...
Jeremy Workman returns to SXSW this year with “Secret Mall Apartment.” Eight individuals found a way to convert unused space within the Providence Place Mall in Rhode Island. They used it as a clubhouse and as a protest against gentrification. ...
The Premiere of season 3 of “Hacks” (HBO Max) took place at noon on March 9th at SXSW. It was truly an audience of devoted fans. The feeling in the Paramount Theater was equal parts anticipation and shared enthusiasm— not ...
The very first day of SXSW 2024 a 96-minute documentary entitled “MoviePass/MovieCrash” had its World Premiere at the Alamo Theater on Lamar Boulevard. It chronicled how two black entrepreneurs—Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt—spent a decade developing a way to bring ...
“Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It” is a documentary from Paris Barclay, whose own film accomplishments put him in a class that few can match. Barclay (“In Treatment,” “Glee”). This is an outstanding documentary. It goes right up ...
“My Dead Friend Zoe” was a crowd-funded first feature film from Army veteran Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, who served 5 years in Afghanistan and used his real-life experiences to craft this film (and his entire career up to this point.) He is ...
The International Premiere of Writer/Director Tilman Singer’s film “Cuckoo” took place on Thursday, March 14 at SXSW. It’s a delightfully weird horror thriller written and directed by German director Tilman Singer. It stars Hunter Shafer (“Euphoria”) and veteran character actor ...
Just hearing a snippet of a song can send Harriet (Lucy Boynton) of “The Greatest Hits” film back to a time when she and her boyfriend Max were happy and together. Director Ned Benson has tapped into the universal way ...
The Magpie is a bird that has been associated with good luck and good fortune in Asian cultures. However, in this SXSW film that had its World Premiere at the Stateside Theater at SXSW on Saturday, March 9th, good luck ...
The Canadian documentary “Plastic People,” directed by Ben Addelman and Ziya Tong, had its World Premiere at SXSW on Saturday, March 9th, 2024. It is an absolutely terrifying piece of detective work, investigating how our fixation on plastic came to ...
The documentary “Stormy” had its World Premiere on Friday, March 8th, at SXSW in Austin, Texas. It premieres on Peacock on March 18th. Directed by Sarah Gibson and executive produced by Judd Apatow, the film was a sympathetic look at ...
The documentary “7 Beats Per Minute,” directed by Canadian/Chinese/Mongol director Yuqi Kang had its World Premiere on March 8th, Friday , the first day of SXSW. Yuqi Kang, the director of “A Little Wisdom,” gifts us with a gorgeous film. ...
