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Austin Film Festival 2025 Preview: Wake Up Dead Man, Jay Kelly, No Other Choice and more

The Austin Film Festival is just around the corner and stacked with Texas premieres of major films like Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice and Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet. Ahead of this year’s festival, which runs from October 23–30, take a look at the feature films and documentaries our Hyperreal Film Journal writers can’t wait to see.

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Five Fall Festival Films to Look Out For

With the summer coming to an end and temperatures coming down, fall is officially on the horizon. While many people are preparing for football season, us cinephiles are preparing for a different season: the fall film festivals.

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Movie Musical Underdogs, A List

Movie musicals have been a persistent staple in American culture nearly as long as movies themselves have. Therefore, it is worth discussing ten movie musicals you may have seldom stopped to consider next to standards like Singin’ in the Rain or Cabaret or Grease. These unsung heroes of the movie musical genre are begging for more love and attention.

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(Some of) The Best Movies about Movies

In honor of tonight’s screening of John Paizs’ Crime Wave, we’re running down some of our favorite movies about movies.

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Flesh and Blood: An Exhaustive List of Actors who Have Portrayed Both Dracula and Van Helsing

How many actors have had the range and the opportunity to play both Count Dracula and his non-immortal-still-eternal nemesis Van Helsing? The answer may surprise you.

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The Best Movies of 2023: Honorable Mentions & Editors' Choice

There are thousands of films released in a given year, and here at Hyperreal we want to recognize those unsung releases too—films that for one reason or another, didn’t crack the top 10, but that we felt deserved recognition, too. 

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