This week in Austin screenings 2/07-2/13.
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Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman is messy and a bit scattered, but more of it works than it doesn’t.
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Touch Me is for the weirdos who want to be shocked and confronted with a deliciously campy, sensory overload fever dream that happens to include a few hentai scenes. Oh, and it’s a very horny movie.
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September 5, directed and co-written by Swiss filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum, is a tricky movie to talk about. But, he makes his point clear: this is the world’s first televised terrorist incident and ultimately a failure of journalism.
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In her directorial debut Oh, Hi!—which premiered this year at Sundance Film Festival—Sophie Brooks takes the decline of modern dating and mixes it up in a frothy rom-com.
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This week in Austin screenings 1/31-2/6.
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Welcome to 1990’s Pump Up the Volume, writer/director Allan Moyle’s second installment in his unofficial trilogy of youthful rebellion and kickass soundtracks.
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In her new film Sugar Babies, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Rachel Fleit charts the trajectory of a TikTok sugar baby influencer.
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In this latest Apes Retrospective, we dig into Battle for the Planet of the Apes and the 2001 reboot of the original Planet of the Apes.
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This week in Austin screenings 1/24-1/30.
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In The Lawnmower Man, virtual reality is more imaginative and worse rendered than we have ever conceived of it.
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Hey there seeker, welcome to February at Hyperreal Film Club! We've got festival favorites! We've got cable standard-bearers! We've got programmer Blake Williams' incredible BLACK IN AMERICA series, now in-person after being hosted on our Discord the past two years!
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The world David Lynch created and left behind is endlessly illuminating, compassionate, and strange.
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Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man is a movie at odds with itself, too quick to take the time to delve into fraught family history and too narrowly focused to let its Wolf Men really cut loose and get monstrous.
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This week in movie screenings in Austin, TX, 1/17–1/23.
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Next week, two Hyperreal Film Journal writers will pack their parkas and snow boots and jet off to Park City, Utah, for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Our editor-in-chief Alix Mammina and staff writer Andy Volk share their top picks to catch, whether you’re braving the cold in-person or checking in for online screenings.
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In this latest Apes Retrospective, we dig into Escape From the Planet of the Apes and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
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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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The Brutalist achieves its greatest emotional potency when it examines the precariousness of life’s balance.
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The best parts of Y2K weave together the absurdity of its situation into the absurdity of life in the United States on December 31, 1999.
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