Since Saltburn’s 2022 release, critics have noted it’s similarities to The Talented Mr. Ripley, often for worse.
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This week in Austin screenings 4/19 - 4/25.
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Secret Mall Apartment could easily have been a straightforward hagiography of a generous, interesting artist who also lived in the walls of a mall, but director Jeremy Workman never lets the catchy hook get in the way of the larger story.
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“The Devil Inside Me” tells the all too relatable story of toxic relationships with a little twist. A lonely woman forms an intimate and fleeting relationship with the prince of darkness, Satan himself. After their shared night, he ghosts her, leaving her to wonder when it went wrong. This film is Sarah Uftring’s directorial debut. The Austin filmmaker took the plunge and it paid off as she has garnered accolades, praise, and recognition for her hilariously awkward comedy. This interview, we got the chance to talk about genre filmmaking, approaching a set as a first time director, the importance of collaboration, and why adding a wiggly tail to your sex scenes might be more challenging than you think!
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Made by anarchist gay author James Robert Baker (as James Dillinger) for less than $2,000 as part of the EZTV collective—a digital art and video collective based in Los Angeles since 1983—Blonde Death follows innocent Mississippi teen Tammy Lynn Beaudorf on a journey of bisexual corruption and violent rampage.
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Hyperreal Film Club’s Matthew Seidel sat down with Erica Schultz to discuss her new book, The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills in Film, her successful indiegogo campaign, Letterboxd, and the Austin film scene.
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This week in Austin screenings 4/12-4/18.
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Civil War proves that Alex Garland still has some gas in the tank, exploring the morality of the media’s relationship with war while still holding the press in deep reverence.
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BloodSisters is even more appreciable as a portrait of queer identity, diving deep into the intricacies of solidarity and sexual pleasure simply by allowing its subjects to speak for themselves.
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You can feel the passion oozing off of Monkey Man. Patel went away to iron out every detail, to the point where it feels like you can see the movie playing in his head. The stylish action sequences are bolstered by a killer score from Jed Kurzel that thumps along to each and every hit.
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Head takes the silliness of The Monkees sitcom and dials it up to surrealist heights.
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This week in Austin screenings 4/5 - 4/11.
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You’re not hardcore unless you live hardcore… by watching these movies.
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Two made-for-TV takes on ghosts, Amazing World of Ghosts (1978) and The Woman in Black (1989), are covered in this Psychotronic Drive-In installment.
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From its opening moment, unconventionally non-cinematic, director Jonathan Glazer announces the psychic essence of The Zone of Interest, one structured by its absences and what it decides not to show us.
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A deep dive into the figure of the American housewife in Todd Haynes’ films.
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This week in Austin screenings 3/29-4/4.
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Bionico’s Bachata is a refreshing gut-punch.
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The Promised Land is a reminder that an epic doesn’t need all the bells and whistles we have grown accustomed to—it can be about something seemingly insignificant, like a man trying to farm.
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Love Lies Bleeding is a gutsy exclamation point that doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks of it.
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