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SXSW Review: Pelada
I’m not exactly the sports type. Perhaps that’s why I spend so much time watching movies and writing about them on the Internet. I was always an indoor kid. I’m not even a fan of most sports movies –...
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SXSW Interview: Greenlit Director Miranda Bailey
Despite the rumors, the world is a pretty ok place. Amidst the talk of global warming, fuel prices and the Kardashians…there is this whole “Green Initiative.” So what does it mean for a project or...
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SXSW Interview: Duvall, Murray, Spacek, and the Filmmakers of ‘Get Low’
Wednesday afternoon I sat down with director Aaron Schneider, producer Dean Zanuck, and stars Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, and Sissy Spacek to discuss Get Low, in which Duvall plays Felix Bush, a...
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SXSW Review: Higanjima
As foreign films go, Japan is probably my favorite country. There is a freedom of spirit and rejection of inhibition that produces some of the most unique films on the planet. Oh, and also these...
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SXSW Review: Tony
The greatest part about film festivals is never the parties, the press networking, interviewing filmmakers, or even sneak peeks of major releases. The best part of film festivals is catching small,...
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Sunday Shorts: Plastic Bag, Starring Werner Herzog
For some time now, we’ve been in love with the art of short filmmaking, but we’ve never found a good way to cover them. So once a week, we will bring you a short film that we’ve enjoyed, or that we...
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SXSW Interview: The Runaways Director Floria Sigismondi
I was able to see The Runaways here at SXSW, which is kind of a cool experience. One minute you are watching some kick-ass girls rock out on the big screen, the next minute you can see some of the...
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SXSW Review: Red, White and Blue
Simon Rumley’s Red, White & Blue is a film about grey areas. There are no heroes or villains in the unforgiving landscape of this film, a landscape featuring characters that make life-altering bad...
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SXSW Review: Tiny Furniture
There is an epidemic of sorts in the world of independent filmmaking. It’s something that I blame on the likes of Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson. A thematic choice so perfectly interesting if done...
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SXSW Interview: Director and Cast of Dance With the One
I had a chance to sit with the guys from Dance With the One, which was almost as fun as seeing the film. The film is one of those perfect storms in independent filmmaking when an exciting story,...
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SXSW Review: World’s Largest
With World’s Largest, filmmakers Amy C. Elliott and Elizabeth Donius have created an exhaustive look at the world of quirky small-town America. The kinds of towns you may never heard of, despite their...
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SXSW Interview: Director and Cast of The Taqwacores
This is another one of those films with an interesting subject as well a title that isn’t so easy to pronounce. Neither of these facts keep The Taqwacores from being a coming of age tale that takes a...
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SXSW Review: Four Lions
Every so often, it becomes artistically necessary for someone to come along and combine a serious political issue with The Three Stooges. In lesser hands, it can be an offensive disaster, but...
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SXSW Review: Mr. Nice
I knew very little about this film, or the subject of the film. Needless to say, I had no expectations. When I walked away from the film however, I didn’t have to think long to know that it was one of...
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SXSW: Tucker and Dale, Thunder Soul Win Audience Awards
SXSW 2010 just won’t end. Sure, the final films screened Saturday night and the annual softball tournament took place yesterday, but work is still being done. Here at Reject HQ, we’re still watching...
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SXSW Review: Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee
If you’ve never heard of director Shane Meadows, I highly suggest rushing out and renting, if nothing else, Dead Man’s Shoes. It is a horrific, yet nuanced revenge film with enough psychological...
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The 15 Best Films of SXSW 2010
During a film festival it is my job — as editor — to ensure that everyone on the FSR team is in the right place at the right time. We are a professional publication, you know. Or at least, we try to...
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Officially Cool: The SXSW Midnight Bumper, A Festival Highlight
Earlier today I was directed to the Vimeo page of filmmaker Joe Nicolosi. You may have never heard of him, nor are you likely to have seen his work. However, I’ve seen his work. Over and over and over...
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SXSW Review: The Canal Street Madam
Some documentaries serve as a thesis, arguing for or against a given perspective. Others are critical or historical inquiries into a given incident or situation. Still others are character pieces...
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Interview: ‘Leaves of Grass’ Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson
During SXSW I sat in with 9 other online film journalists for a roundtable discussion with actor-producer Edward Norton and writer-director-actor-producer Tim Blake Nelson as they discussed their new...
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