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In particular, Murray’s 1976 music criticism masterpiece, Stomping the Blues, makes the case for the syncretic spiritual power of the blues in a way that Coogler appears anxious to make: That there is a magic, a power, an incontrovertible life-giving energy to the blues not only as music but as a way of life.
Read MorePan’s Labyrinth is a movie to get lost in.
Read MoreEgoyan’s Exotica is fundamentally a story about grief, loneliness, and obsession. Although enduring loss is a universal experience, it is emotionally isolating.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 6/6-6/12.
Read MoreBrutalist architecture and the immigrant experience are on the surface, but the film is truly about homesteading, occupation, and the space buildings take from nature and other people.
Read MoreTom DiCillo’s Living in Oblivion (1995) is a dark satire of independent filmmaking that reveals within the nightmare of production lies the dream of creativity.
Read MoreKiller clowns are so back! Based on the successful novel by Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield has all the slasher tropes we know and love: killer opening scene, new town, dead mom, cute boy, questionable friend group. It plays the parts perfectly but is far from predictable as Frendo wreaks havoc on the remote town of Kettle Springs, Missouri.
Read MoreGoing Down, director Haydn Keenan’s scrappy DIY debut feature, is a feverish portrait of early 1980s Sydney and its chaotic punk underbelly.
Read MoreWe spoke to Ivan Dixon’s daughter, Doris Nomathandé Dixon, and the former Head of the Moving Image Section at the Library of Congress, Mike Mashon, about their experiencing restoring The Spook Who Sat By the Door.
Read MoreMcConaugheMay comes to a close with a movie that isn’t a movie. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Read MoreSadly, we’re ending the month on a short music video parody that offers very little to discuss or muse upon. Day 30 of McConaugheMay and the end is in sight.
Read MoreFinal Destination Bloodlines isn’t just another by-the-numbers franchise money-grabber, but one that’s willing to play around—and have a little fun—with the rules of the game.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 5/30-6/5.
Read MoreCrisis can reveal peoples’ true colors, and that’s what Ari Aster examines to decent effect in his latest feature, Eddington.
Read MoreDeath is an inevitability, Alexis Franco affirms in his documentary Donde Los Árboles Dan Carne (Where the Trees Bear Meat). Shown during Austin Film Society’s annual Doc Days, Franco’s film is an intimately quiet portrait of the modern Argentine gaucho shaped by the slow destruction of climate change.
Read MoreRegardless of your relationship with the 90s, you will feel nostalgic for your own youth while watching Middletown, the third directorial collaboration between spouses Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, following the lauded Boys State (2020) and Girls State (2024).
Read MoreA film no one has heard of starring people no one has seen since. But Matthew is in it, so it qualifies for Day 29 of McConaugheMay.
Read MoreLove On A Leash exists in that space between a movie that shouldn’t have been released and one that should be seen by anybody with the patience for something truly weird.
Read MoreThe only recent rewatch on this month’s list. Day 28 of McConaugheMay brings us Surfer, Dude.
Read MoreIf you ask someone for a recommendation for a “sciency” film you usually get one of two types of recommendations: “experiments gone wrong,” or “scientific exploration.” The second often falls in line with the notion of Scientific Fiction.
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