Today we sat down with Jake Binstock, Parker Rouse, and Andrew Caplan, the co-directors and producers of The Wasps.
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Yeon Sang-ho’s quietest horror is his most human.
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All told, Is This Thing On? is a darn well-made film that serves two excellent performances from two great actors. It’s well worth seeing.
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We sat down to talk to Julian Castronovo, the star, writer, and director of the film Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued. One of the most standout and spectacular films I have seen this year, perhaps even in the last decade.
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We sat down to talk to Jinho Myung about the film Softshell, an intimate and stunning feature debut. Softshell tells the story of Thai American siblings navigating living in Queens after the death of their mother. In this interview we talk about instant intimacy, the verisimilitude of New York, and the power of food movies.
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Eleanor the Great gives June Squibb the spotlight she deserves.
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This week in Austin screenings 12/05-12/11.
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a movie you should see, even if just to support a director who still deserves to be a household name.
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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.
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Set in small-town America and exploring themes of capitalism, exploitation, corporate culture and conspiracy, Bugonia is jaw-dropping, edge of your seat goodness.
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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.
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George Clooney Anchors a Superb Cast as Jay Kelly, but Doesn’t Get Much to Do Himself
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With a comedic tone and a political message that both felt surface level at best, I was left hoping for a tastier fortune cookie.
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In Eternity, a new romantic dramedy from director David Freyne, life, love, and death are all potent ingredients that make for a compelling plot.
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A look ahead to Austin screenings 11/28-12/04.
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This week in Austin screenings 11/21-11/27.
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