At once a a genre exercise featuring familiar archetypes and a dazzlingly subversive debut feature, Bound heralded the arrival of two legendary and generation-defining filmmakers.
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Under-discussed and under-loved in the conversations around classic ‘80s action, Cobra is meaner, and more disturbing than anything Sylvester Stallone’s contemporaries were doing at the time.
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This week in Austin screenings 6/15-6/22.
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The Pope of Trash goes mainstream… sort of, in this incredibly prescient look at true crime obsessions and serial killers.
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This is first and foremost Silvia and Estefania’s story (or at least a moment in their story). Filmed during the summer of 2019, we watch Silvia and Estefania pass the days as young people usually do: With wanderings, musings on their future and past, and lots and lots of stupid jokes and inside references with themselves and friends. Hummingbirds is a living piece. There’s no grand message or point except that of what comes out of seeing people’s lives play out on screen.
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I’ve always been interested in the unknown lurking hidden in the shadows. I was captivated by the thrills I found in scary stories as a young boy. When I was 10 years old, I came across a horror entry with a then-unique approach and appreciation for a genre I was only beginning to understand. That movie was 1996’s Scream.
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John Woo’s action-packed Hong Kong masterpiece starts off big and only gets wilder from there.
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This week in Austin screenings 6/9-6/15.
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Wake up and don’t sleep on School Daze.
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Hi gay! Buckle up—the season of corporations changing their logos for 30 days is once again upon us. Whether you’re #slaying rainbow capitalism or #SashayingAway from various Pride month celebrations, you’ll want to put down your Criterion edition of Blue is the Warmest Color (whoever made that decision must be prosecuted for their hate crimes against the lesbian community) and check out these actually enjoyable LGBT+ films.
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A cap to Schrader’s latest trilogy sees the writer-director examining arguably his most repugnant leading man with surprising grace.
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We all have to play the hands we’re dealt, but few nepo babies have made art on the level of The Legend of the Stardust Brothers.
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This Week in Screenings 6/2-6/8
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More movies to cure your May melancholy.
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DOA: Dead or Alive delivers on three fronts: backstory montages, punching, and ass-shots. And to be fair, that's kind of all you need.
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A love of film and a compelling lead character makes The Hard Goodnight a film to watch.
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It’s not just a film about a woman who squirts literal geysers of fresh water, but it’s not not that, either.
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This week in Austin screenings 5/26-6/1
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Heat is so much more than that iconic diner scene.
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Hyperreal Interviewer extraordinaire Justin Norris sat down with filmmaker Ryan Darbonne to discuss his short film What They Found, authenticity in period piece filmmaking, and watching The Banshees of Inisherin in Ireland.
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