Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere attempts to paint Bruce’s life with the same romantic flourishes that define his work, but rather than capturing the truth or transcending it, the film struggles to figure out what to do with it.
Read More
Set in small-town America and exploring themes of capitalism, exploitation, corporate culture and conspiracy, Bugonia is jaw-dropping, edge of your seat goodness.
Read More
With the Edgar Wright-directed The Running Man, Powell uses his face in a new way, putting it through the wringer as his angry, angry hero Ben Richards does his damndest to survive the entire continental United States hunting him. It’s Powell’s expression work, coupled with a committed physical performance (which he shares with stunt double Danny Downey), that gives The Running Man a compelling, magnetic core. Powell is the reason to see The Running Man.
Read More
George Clooney Anchors a Superb Cast as Jay Kelly, but Doesn’t Get Much to Do Himself
Read More
Do No Harm is a tense, tightly crafted little thriller that expertly draws audiences into the high stakes world of people who work in healthcare and how top down decisions about staffing and funding can cause catastrophic outcomes for people who are just trying to do their best and get the care they need.
Read More
Encapsulating a film inside a 24-hour period adds an enormous amount of dramatic weight to minuscule moments. By dialing the stakes up to full blast, the sense of definite realism heightens a feeling of uncontrolled chaos as a never ending check-list of to-do’s build up and the clock ticks.
Read More
Ang Lee’s follow up to the Oscar winning Brokeback Mountain went underlooked, getting polite, yet not overly enthusiastic reviews and received zero Oscar nominations. However, I’d put it forth as one of the great films of 2007 and is more than deserving of the growing appreciation it’s received over the years; an intoxicating masterpiece of espionage and eroticism.
Read More
The best way to describe the way I felt leaving Predator: Badlands, a new installment in the Predator franchise, was satisfaction. There is something so pleasurable in watching a movie do exactly what it needs to do, but without pandering or cutting corners.
Read More
With a comedic tone and a political message that both felt surface level at best, I was left hoping for a tastier fortune cookie.
Read More
In Eternity, a new romantic dramedy from director David Freyne, life, love, and death are all potent ingredients that make for a compelling plot.
Read More
A look ahead to Austin screenings 11/28-12/04.
Read More
This week in Austin screenings 11/21-11/27.
Read More
While other horror franchises churned out slop or went to space to stay top of mind, one franchise understood the long game and continuously evolved.
Read More
Spite is an unsettling, atmospheric low budget indie film that centers on a 36 year old woman, Johanna (Masha Cima), who returns to her childhood home after the death of her estranged, abusive mother.
Read More
What happens when the Kong franchise bounds outside its California home and we let the Godzilla folks take the reins for a bit? The result is the recent Weird Wednesday showing of King Kong Escapes.
Read More
Ninja Terminator tells the story of three ninjas, led by Ninja Master Harry (Richard Harrison), who pull off a heist against an all-powerful, entirely-evil, oddly-omnipresent crime empire run by ninjas.
Read More
Exit 8 is an admirable experiment: a video game adaptation that doesn’t just replicate its source but reimagines it as a metaphor for daily life, where the routines we take for granted may be leading us deeper into a purgatory of our own making.
Read More
The Mastermind is a welcome return to higher stakes storytelling, with surprising splashes of slapstick comedy.
Read More
Enjoying its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, The Boy from St. Croix is a heartfelt documentary of Hall-of-Fame professional basketball player Tim Duncan.
Read More
Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life (2025) is an enjoyable comic mystery that proves that the therapist is the last person to know what’s going on.
Read More