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“Breaking Silence” explores disability, communication access, and family relationships. For Director Amy Bench, these themes were universal, relatable components that transformed this narrative from an introspection on incarceration and reentry to a vérité look at community and transformation.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 5/1-5/7.
Read MoreIn a time when the world’s most powerful countries attempt to extract commerce with the threat of violence, Magellan prompts the question: has anything really changed all these centuries later?
Read MoreWe all know that feeling you get when you leave a film so good you want to change your entire personality or even pick up a bold sign and protest. I felt that more than once this Sundance.
Read MoreIn protecting Michael Jackson’s memory so fiercely from “Wacko Jacko” negative energy, the filmmakers fail to create a believable human portrait.
Read MoreGiven the strength of its parts, it’s no surprise that Sholay remains a hit.
Read MoreHard Target (1993), while sometimes dismissed as a middling Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle, has taken its honorable place in John Woo’s filmography.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 4/24-4/30.
Read MoreIn the middle of February, when movie theaters around the country screen both classic Valentine’s Day films and off-the-beaten-path romantic repertory programming, Weird Wednesday at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar presented director Sammo Hung’s rom-com action film Pedicab Driver.
Read MoreWhile director Miko Lim does craft a visually arresting documentary—with both his own filmography and his subject’s archival footage—he’s less successful in telling the story of the man at the center of it.
Read MoreI Love Boosters is a fun albeit confusing bit of mess. But for every half baked detail this movie offers, it makes up in style and acting which seems like a bit of a Boots Riley show.
Read MoreLove Me Deadly is a baffling enigma of a film.
Read MoreFoodfight! is a frightening look at the future of film.
Read MoreMiniatures designed by Christopher Lee Warren and his team feature in Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters and Alex Prager’s DreamQuil.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 4/17-4/23.
Read MoreIt remains an extraordinarily compelling documentary about one of the pieces of detritus of American culture.
Read MoreLancelot du Lac (1974), is a revisionary take on the myth of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Read MoreMother Mary may be messy, but it is far from incoherent or lacking confidence in its phenomenal vision and how Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel bring it to life.
Read MoreA hilarious and hyperbolic analysis of modern dating, female friendships, and self discovery.
Read MoreWhat’s the easiest way to get the audience to buy into a big performance? To make your character Bugs Bunny.
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