Ahead of this year’s Austin Film Festival, Hyperreal Film Club sat down with Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother director and writer Bassam Tariq to explore his artistic process, cinematic influences, and advice for emerging filmmakers.
Read More
The 2026 Austin Film Festival is upon us, with a mix of auteur-driven movies and new kids on the block.
Read More
In advance of their world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, Hyperreal Film Club sat down with co-directors Matt Litwiller and Collin Davis to talk about their new film, All the Way Down.
Read More
Ann Marie Allison’s You’re Dating a Narcissist! whiplashes between being an effective and affecting exploration of parenting after your children reach adulthood at its best and too-broad and surprisingly poorly made at its worst. And Daniel Roebuck’s Tuesday’s Flu, a well-acted crime story and character study that never rises above “ok.”
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
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
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
Jensen reunites with regular actors Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen for a crime tale about two brothers attempting to retrieve heist money in The Last Viking (2025).
Read More
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is back as the iconic, deeply Southern, master detective for the third installment of the Knives Out Franchise in writer/director Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, but this time, something feels different.
Read More
In a world where there is no such thing as job security, No Other Choice resonates as an apt satire-thriller of employment anxiety.
Read More
This year’s Austin Film Festival witnessed a true full-circle moment for filmmaker Austin Kolodney. In 2022, he premiered his short film Two Chairs, Not One at AFF; in 2025, he came back to screen his feature debut Dead’s Man Wire, directed by Gus Van Sant, following its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Read More
Searching for Satyrus gracefully threads together larger social issues like climate change and ethnic conflicts with a deeply resonant story of family and legacy.
Read More
Ahead of this year’s Austin Film Festival, take a look at the feature films and documentaries our Hyperreal Film Journal writers can’t wait to see.
Read More
Exclusive red carpet interviews with The Order cast and crew including screenwriter Zack Baylin and actor Tye Sheridan.
Read More
Exclusive red carpet interviews with Operation Taco Gary’s cast and crew including writer-director Michael Kvamme and actor Simon Rex at Austin Film Festival.
Read More
Exclusive interview with The Fetch cast and crew at the 2024 Austin Film Festival.
Read More
Exclusive red carpet interview with American Spirit cast and crew at the 2024 Austin Film Festival.
Read More
Shot entirely in first-person, RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-prize winning book pushes the boundaries of visual storytelling to create a bold and immersive work of art.
Read More