This week in Austin screenings 2/21-2/27.
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A deep dive into 2024’s surge in pregnancy horror films, from Immaculate to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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In theory, creating an effective folk horror movie shouldn’t be too difficult; there’s a wealth of myth and lore to pull into making a film that both haunts and mystifies. But in practice, modern scary movies tend to fumble this easy bag with dull writing and worse plots. Writer-director Brit Chainey falls into that same camp with Rabbit Trap, his feature debut that premiered at Sundance Film Festival. The movie tries to capitalize on the wild and weird beauty of Wales to create a folk horror story with a strong emotional tenor, but clever visual tricks and an evocative setting can’t save Rabbit Trap from its own incoherent plot.
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In her directorial debut Seeds, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary, Brittany Shyne offers an intimate look at the fate of Black farmers in the American South. Shooting in black-and-white with a single-minded focus on her subjects, Shyne creates what feels like an elegy for a way of living on the brink of dying out.
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The first installment of Riverdale is Cinema, our new, Patreon-exclusive column!
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In this latest Apes Retrospective, we dig into Matt Reeves’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes.
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Welcome to March at Hyperreal Film Club!
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This week in Austin screenings 2/14 - 2/20. .
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If this is your first Gamera, Super Monster is as satisfying as any other entry point you could choose.
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In School of The Holy Beast, director Norifumi Suzuki and the Toei film studio bring a nunsploitation that challenges the audience through the shocking nature of its story juxtaposed with its beautiful imagery.
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A new comic on food in film takes a look at what Jon Favreau, Brad Pitt and Willy Wonka might have to say.
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Nearly 45 years on, Altered States sparks synaptic connections rarely felt in big-budget movies with its operatic emotions and theatrical dialogue.
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Train Dreams breathes life into ordinary moments that make up the meaning of one’s life. It’s a welcome reminder during these all too chaotic times, that the journey is not marked by the memories we often think it will be.
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This week in Austin screenings 2/07-2/13.
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Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman is messy and a bit scattered, but more of it works than it doesn’t.
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In her directorial debut Oh, Hi!—which premiered this year at Sundance Film Festival—Sophie Brooks takes the decline of modern dating and mixes it up in a frothy rom-com.
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Touch Me is for the weirdos who want to be shocked and confronted with a deliciously campy, sensory overload fever dream that happens to include a few hentai scenes. Oh, and it’s a very horny movie.
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September 5, directed and co-written by Swiss filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum, is a tricky movie to talk about. But, he makes his point clear: this is the world’s first televised terrorist incident and ultimately a failure of journalism.
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This week in Austin screenings 1/31-2/6.
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Welcome to 1990’s Pump Up the Volume, writer/director Allan Moyle’s second installment in his unofficial trilogy of youthful rebellion and kickass soundtracks.
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