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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.
Read MoreEleanor the Great gives June Squibb the spotlight she deserves.
Read MoreGood 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.
Read MoreGeorge Clooney Anchors a Superb Cast as Jay Kelly, but Doesn’t Get Much to Do Himself
Read MoreDo 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 MoreSpite 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 MoreEnjoying 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 MoreRebecca 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 MoreJensen 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 MoreWhere SISU 2 shines is taking every element from the first movie and ramping it all up tenfold.
Read MoreHot, sweaty, and filled with dread, Sirāt goes there and takes you alongside it whether you wanted that or not.
Read MoreIt’s interesting that we don’t really get movies about monkeys very often, let alone horror movies about how scary monkeys are.
Read MoreBenoit 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 MoreIn a world where there is no such thing as job security, No Other Choice resonates as an apt satire-thriller of employment anxiety.
Read MoreThis 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 MoreAhead 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 MoreSimply put, watching Angel’s Egg in the quality it deserves has been a significant challenge for decades outside of Japan. Having the opportunity to see a 4K restoration of Angel’s Egg in a movie theater, at Fantastic Fest no less, is a dream come true.
Read MoreThough buoyed by strong performances and a sustained sense of tension, Aneil Karia’s hollowed-out adaptation struggles under the weight of its legacy.
Read MoreJoachim Trier’s latest is a success in creating an intergenerational story of art and personal history.
Read MoreBy positioning Videoheaven as both a cinematic essay and an archive, Alex Ross Perry ensures that the memory of video stores won’t just fade into nostalgia, but remain available for future generations to discover.
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