I Play Rocky is the underdog story behind the underdog story. This biopic follows Sylvester Stallone’s determined journey writing and starring in the immediately classic Best Picture-winner Rocky (1976).
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Told through shots of books and fragments of text set to the music of Gustav Holst, Chronovisor invites the viewer down a research rabbit hole, one that offers the rare satisfaction of a payoff at the end.
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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.
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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.
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After a lost decade of madness, The Godfather of Punk Cinema returns to the screen with his 8th feature, NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION, filmed in Marfa, TX and Santa Fe, NM.
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Miniatures designed by Christopher Lee Warren and his team feature in Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters and Alex Prager’s DreamQuil.
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Blake Williams interviews Charlie Tyrell, one half of the directing team behind The AI Doc (or How I Became An Apocaloptimist) about the filmmaking process, apocaloptimism, and creative balance.
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In advance of its 2026 World Premiere at SXSW, Hyperreal Film Journal staff writer Ziah Grace sat down with writer/director Eric Jackowitz to talk about his giallo parody The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much.
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Interview with our Hyperreal Spelling Bee winner, Kayla Oliver.
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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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We spoke to Ivan Dixon’s daughter, Doris Nomathandé Dixon, and the former Head of the Moving Image Section at the Library of Congress, Mike Mashon, about their experiencing restoring The Spook Who Sat By the Door.
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Today, we got the opportunity to speak to Hannia Yeverino about her film Punks, which played this year at the Houston Latino Film Festival.
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After viewing this groan- and grin-inducing film, I sat down with my old friend and one of the stars of Final Destination Bloodlines, Richard Harmon, to discuss the family dynamic, how he pulled off each impossible stunt, and his experience working alongside the late, great Tony Todd.
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A discussion with PJ Raval on his Spring ‘25 Queer Media Production course and the importance of community and queer filmmaking.
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Started in 2016 by co-founders Dave Cebrero, Pedro Rivas, and David Cortez, the Houston Latino Film Festival offers an eclectic selection of films.
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Today we caught up with Houston based filmmaker Timoteo Cortez to talk about his newest short film Proverbs.
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Filmmaker Elaine Epstein on her SXSW premiere of Arrest the Midwife, a documentary on the plight of three midwives in the Northeast.
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HFC sat down with Momoko Seto at Animation First Festival ‘25 to discuss her debut Dandelion’s Odyssey, her unique approach to filmmaking, and the beauty of rot.
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Ziah Grace sat down with directors Annika Iltis and Timothy Kane to talk about what made "The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young" stand out from other sports docs.
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