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.
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In a world where there is no such thing as job security, No Other Choice resonates as an apt satire-thriller of employment anxiety.
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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.
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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.
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Exclusive red carpet interviews with The Order cast and crew including screenwriter Zack Baylin and actor Tye Sheridan.
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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.
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Exclusive interview with The Fetch cast and crew at the 2024 Austin Film Festival.
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Exclusive red carpet interview with American Spirit cast and crew at the 2024 Austin Film Festival.
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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.
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Justin Kurzel’s newest film The Order, this year’s “Centerpiece Film” at the Austin Film Festival, observes a hate-filled racial movement in 1983 that continues to live on in modern rhetoric.
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We sat down with Rob Taylor and Nic Costa on Zoom to ask a few questions about their latest release, Raging Midlife. Along the way we covered the joy of filmmaking, the balance of their process, the inspiration of pro wrestling, and the sincerity of this comedy film.
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A few days after making its Texas Premiere at the Austin Film Festival, Callie sat down with Hyperreal Film Club’s Justin Norris to talk about the characters of her short, working with a primarily female film crew, and the other areas of the female experience that film can still explore.
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Coming off its premiere at the Austin Film Festival on October 27th, Victoria sat down with Hyperreal Interviewer, Justin Norris, to talk about her short, collaborating with Alexi on the script, and her favorite on-screen friendships.
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Today we’re joined by longtime actor and writer Angela Gulner to talk about her directorial debut feature, The Beldham, which is a multigenerational monster movie.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig entwines the real threats of a brutal theocracy with the fictional story of one family’s struggle under its absolutist rule.
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Our team of talented writers was at Austin Film Fest 2023 to bring you the latest up-to-date coverage of all the movies soon to be on your watchlist. If you missed a review as it was published, we’ve got the full master list of our coverage right here in one convenient place.
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American Fiction is a challenging film, but it’s supposed to be: it’s a film that normalizes the Black experience on film and points its finger at your expectation of Black media.
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Hyperreal Interviewer Extaordinaire Justin Norris chatted with producer Jai Stefan and director Jack Huston about Day of the Fight, working with actors as an actor, and the filmmaking lessons learned.
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Hyperreal Interviewer Extaordinaire Justin Norris caught Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Midnight Special) to talk about his new film The Bikeriders, working with Michael Shannon, and starting bike gangs.
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Six years after his last film, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is his most human film since 2004’s Sideways.
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