Written by Anna Harrison "The word “soulmate” gets thrown around a lot, but by adulthood, most people realize that while love exists, soulmates don’t. Then something like Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love” comes around"… Continue reading.
Category: Film Festival
SXSW 2022: Facing Nolan
Written by Alexander Reams Nolan Ryan. Historically one of the greatest pitchers of all time, he not only captured the hearts of fans, but also the fear of his opponents. The iconic pitcher is the subject of director Bradley Jackson’s … Continue reading.
SXSW 2022: Linoleum
Written by Anna Harrison “Linoleum” has a perfectly mundane setup: Cameron (Jim Gaffigan) is going through a midlife crisis, the kind that we’ve seen played out on screen countless times before. Only when a car falls out of the sky … Continue reading.
SXSW 2022: To Leslie
Written by Taylor Baker Michael Morris’ “To Leslie'' presents the journey of a washed-up alcoholic named Leslie (Andrea Riseborough) who after winning the lottery blows her cash, abandons her child, and eeks out a meager existence going bottle to bottle … Continue reading.
SXSW 2022: Pirates
Written by Alexander Reams There are those nights, nights that you remember with your friends, that live in the halls of glory in your mind. For many people, celebrating the millennium was one of those nights, the fear of Y2K … Continue reading.
SXSW 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Written by Patrick Hao The only thing hotter than the multiverse right now in American cinema is generational trauma, especially in narratives about the Asian diaspora. The Daniels, the filmmaking duo of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert making their second … Continue reading.
SXSW 2022: Sissy
Written by Jeff Sparks "Sissy" is bogged down by common cliches you expect from indie thrillers such as unbelievable scenes, lack of continuity on where events take place, and of course the infamous scenes of victims not running away when … Continue reading.
SXSW 2022: Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off
Written by Taylor Baker Sam Jones has come out of the woodwork as a self-assured documentarian who lets his subject and the relationships that subject has had speak in a quality that his contemporaries rarely reach.… Continue reading.
SXSW 2022: Seriously Red
Written by Patrick Hao There are no universal truths in the world. But the closest thing to it is that everyone loves Dolly Parton. The country music star has built a feminist brand name for herself, an amusement park called … Continue reading.
SXSW 2022 | Wrap-Up w/ Taylor Baker, Taylor Beaumont, and Thomas Stoneham-Judge from ForReel
In this video, Taylor Baker, Taylor Beaumont, and Thomas Stoneham-Judge discuss their favorite titles of the 2022 edition of the SXSW Film Festival.… Continue reading.