Each year, our team of Hyperreal Film Journal writers takes to the streets (and movie theaters) of Austin to cover the SXSW Film Festival. Here’s what’s on our can’t-miss radar.
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In Sundance documentary Public Access, from filmmaker David Shadrack Smith, we learn about the history of New York City’s Manhattan Cable Television.
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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.”
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The Wasps feels like a comedy that the sickos have been yearning for: a truly absurdist film that places comedy above all else.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Where SISU 2 shines is taking every element from the first movie and ramping it all up tenfold.
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Hot, sweaty, and filled with dread, Sirāt goes there and takes you alongside it whether you wanted that or not.
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It’s interesting that we don’t really get movies about monkeys very often, let alone horror movies about how scary monkeys are.
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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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