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SXSW Review: The Loved Ones

We all remember high school, right?  For some of us it’s not a terribly distant memory and for others it’s so distant that it’s almost a past-life experience.  Some of us were able to flourish and...

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SXSW: Film Awards Celebrate Tiny Furniture, Brotherhood

In a ceremony last night at the Austin Convention Center, the Jury and Audience Award winners for the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival were announced. Hosted by comedian Eugene...

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SXSW: Hilarious Trailer for Closing Night Film ‘Four Lions’

This afternoon, MSN Movies has released a hilarious first trailer for Four Lions, a Sundance holdover that’s been selected as the closing night film of this year’s SXSW Film Festival. The story is...

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SXSW Interview: Nimród Antal

I won’t start off with a lie and say that Predators was one of my most anticipated films of the year, but I will say that after seeing the sneak peek…Predators is now. Chatting with director Nimród...

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SXSW Review: Micmacs

I’ve enjoyed every single one of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s French films. From the dark fairytale of City of Lost Children to the enchanting Cinderella story of Amelie to the sprawling, visionary war epic...

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SXSW Review: Lemmy

Documentaries that rock, about people that rock. That seems to be my critical kryptonite. Despite the fact that it was silly and a tad schmaltzy, I loved Air Guitar Nation. Despite the fact that it...

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SXSW Interview: Chris D’Arienzo

Barry Munday was the first film I saw for SXSW, and it could have only been one of my favorite films of the festival for maybe another day or so. However, we are now on our seventh day of coverage for...

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SXSW Interview: Sebastian Gutierrez and the Ladies of Elektra Luxx

It is not often that you have a chance to sit opposite of true beauty. Even when you have the chance, it is easy to clam up and lose your thoughts. So needless to say, I had to keep it cool while...

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SXSW Review: American: The Bill Hicks Story

On one day here at SXSW, I set out to get my fix of documentaries. Luckily, there were two docs playing that day that were right up my alley. One was Lemmy, the high-energy rock doc about one of my...

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SXSW Review: A Serbian Film

The two midnight screenings of director Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film that have taken place so far here at South by Southwest have already flirted with a degree of notoriety, both within the fest...

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SXSW Review: The Runaways

The Runaways has plenty of components working against it. It’s an independent film that stars Kristen Stewart, who since her work in Twilight has been dismissed by many of us who avoid that series...

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SXSW Review: Cargo

Cargo was one of my most anticipated films of this year’s SXSW. As I had mentioned before, while Sci-Fi is not my expertise, the titles that have most impressed me of late have been foreign entries....

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SXSW Review: Centurion

If I learned one thing from the horror panel, which is absurd because I actually learned a surfeit of things from that panel, it’s that Neil Marshall is an incredibly smart guy. But as a horror film...

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SXSW Review: Thunder Soul

In order to make an excellent documentary, you’d have to be many things. One thing is that you have to have a keen eye for story, and be able to anticipate where a real-world story may go. Before the...

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SXSW Interview: John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill

When films are cast perfectly, you can tell. There is a certain energy and chemistry that makes these characters feel alive. So when casting an improvisational comedy, could you ask for two better...

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SXSW Interview: Mark Millar

I am a comic book geek. I won’t fight it. Call me a nerd, and what have you. Those of you who know and love comic books though, probably realize how big of a deal that Mark Millar is. What you may not...

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SXSW Interview: Marwencol Director Jeff Malmberg

When you visit a film festival, you are sure to find plenty of films that seem odd in subject matter and some that have odd names. Marwencol can own up to both of those distinctions. In the end...

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SXSW Review: Skeletons

There’s a certain amount of restraint that must be used when making a “quirky” comedy. You must be offbeat, but you can’t be too weird, otherwise you risk losing the interest of the audience. There’s...

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SXSW Review: Winter’s Bone

One can see why the people of Sundance loved Winter’s Bone enough to give it the Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Upon initial appearance it’s exactly the type of independent...

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SXSW Review: Greenlit

As I’ve mentioned time and time again (and time again, mind you) in reviews of documentaries, there’s a certain “lightning in a bottle” element to creating a cinematic experience out of a real life...

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