Maddie’s Secret achieves the emotional magic of melodramas: the viewer unknowingly finds themselves swept up in the heightened emotions at the story’s peak, with crushing emotional consequences
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This week in Austin screenings 7/31-8/6.
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Uncaring adults, prophetic dreams of a sexual nature, carelessly unsafe sex that feels like love, blood-splattered runs from truth and plot into the unknown.
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Sitting through Ben and Arthur at a Weird Wednesday screening is its own category of transformative.
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“I love this dirty town,” Lancaster says wistfully at one point in Sweet Smell Of Success. For me, this line seems to linger over every scene in Marty Supreme, as if whispered to us by Josh Safdie about any one of his frantic characters.
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This week in Austin screenings 7/24-7/30.
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The Dink simply exists halfway between a sports movie and a comedy, never thrilling enough to be the former, never funny enough to be the latter.
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Evil Dead movies are so beloved because they’re fun. Burn seems to forget that.
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Michael sounds like a Michael Jackson fan’s dream while Man In The Mirror sounds like an incredibly lacking, unintentionally funny ode to the King of Pop, and maybe both of those things are true, but Man In The Mirror has something that Michael definitely lacked: the courage to explore its hero, warts and all.
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This week in Austin screenings 7/17-7/23.
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While this is undeniably a poor movie, it is indeed fun to watch, but not taken as a representation of Juan Piquer Simón’s finest work.
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For an adaptation of an ancient work, it is startling how much Nolan’s recontextualizing of Troy’s destruction speaks to societal failures we are living through over 2,000 years later.
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This is no cloying tale of Americana, all wrapped in nostalgia and summertime haze. Clad in cool undertones, this is an ultra-realistic, dreary portrayal of life in rural small-town America, where mundanity and its discontents take center stage.
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Back to the Future is not about time travel. It is about the universe looking at the McFly family tree, sighing deeply, and sending an Appalachian Time Lord in a DeLorean to make sure the branches do not touch.
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This week in Austin screenings 7/10-7/16.
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The tomboy continues to endure as an endearing character in film. A tomboy is an empowered girl who is resilient, courageous, and daring.
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Truth be told there’s a lot to like here, but unfortunately the movie kinda whiffs a lot more.
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I’m not sure about Penny Slot, but I’m pretty sure that Showgirls 2 is a gift from heaven. Doubly so for the woman who created it.
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This week in Austin screenings 7/3-7/9.
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The city landscape provides a unique backdrop to explore human experiences, and metropolitan films of the 1970s and 1980s reflected a significant shift in how society thought of city life.
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