Paddington in Peru beats the odds stacked against it, understanding Paddington is the draw and whatever adventure he goes on audiences will join him.
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In adapting the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, director Bong Joon Ho makes the great decision to add 10 more lifetimes and change Mickey’s background from middle- to working-class, all in service of the often funny and always scathing critiques of modern capital that define his work.
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This week in Austin screenings, 3/7-3/13.
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Like much of Dumont’s filmography, his sci-fi satire The Empire is relentlessly unafraid of what people might think of it.
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Better Man, the biopic about British pop star Robbie Williams, is undoubtedly a unique experience for an undeniably unique figure.
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A Real Pain encompasses grief as it is, as its effects live within each person who has faced it, lending humor and empathy to the journey of remembering, and the confrontations that must occur to understand one’s pain.
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It’s that time of year again: the Hyperreal Film Journal crew is hitting the town for the 2025 SXSW Film Festival.
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This week in Austin screenings 2/28-3/6.
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As part of our coverage of Animation First Festival 2025, which celebrates Francophone film, we took a look at the second of their two short film programs.
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HFC sat down with Momoko Seto at Animation First Festival ‘25 to discuss her debut Dandelion’s Odyssey, her unique approach to filmmaking, and the beauty of rot.
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Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenope could make for a fascinating character study and an interesting point of view, but the film never gets into its protagonist’s head.
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The story of Vin Diesel is one of constant creation. From Mark Sinclair—the bouncer rejected by LA—to Vin Diesel, Hollywood superstar and action-film juggernaut.
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At Sundance 2025, Sorry, Baby is just the kind of independent debut you hope to uncover.
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This week in Austin screenings 2/21-2/27.
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A deep dive into 2024’s surge in pregnancy horror films, from Immaculate to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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Brit Chainey’s Rabbit Trap, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, tries to capitalize on the wild and weird beauty of Wales to create a folk horror story with a strong emotional tenor. But clever visual tricks and an evocative setting can’t save Rabbit Trap from its own incoherent plot.
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In her directorial debut Seeds, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary, Brittany Shyne offers an intimate look at the fate of Black farmers in the American South. Shooting in black-and-white with a single-minded focus on her subjects, Shyne creates what feels like an elegy for a way of living on the brink of dying out.
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The first installment of Riverdale is Cinema, our new, Patreon-exclusive column!
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In this latest Apes Retrospective, we dig into Matt Reeves’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes.
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Welcome to March at Hyperreal Film Club!
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