To put it cattily, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey feels like Everything Everywhere All at Once if it were made by capital T capital K Theater Kids as opposed to capital I capital K Internet Kids.
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This week in Austin screenings 9/19-9/25.
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Over a mild weekend in the middle of August, the Austin Film Society hosted a four-day retrospective on the globally renowned art cinema director Tsai Ming-liang.
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Those with pretensions to auteur status must announce themselves, they must Hold Court. Schlesinger doesn't need to. He needn't bother himself with vulgar displays of power.
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On the shores of Club Med, the possibilities of love are as endless as the sea itself. In the second two films of the series, Lina Wertmüller’s Swept Away and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, we see love’s demise as irreconcilable differences surface in the tumultuous throes of passion.
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From secret screenings to off-the-wall showings, Fantastic Fest has a little something for everyone.
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This week in Austin screenings 9/12-9/18.
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Francis Lawrence has thoroughly demonstrated that despite The Long Walk being over four decades late to the party inspired by its legacy, a thoughtful approach to a book adaptation is always the best way to make sure the soul of that book survives onto the screen. I only wish that this thoughtfulness had been infused into all of the movie instead of most of it.
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With the summer coming to an end and temperatures coming down, fall is officially on the horizon. While many people are preparing for football season, us cinephiles are preparing for a different season: the fall film festivals.
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What was pitched to, former NFL linebacker, Brian Bosworth as a sincere and light-hearted action flick quickly turned into a badass biker gang epic that’s just as fun as it sounds.
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This week in Austin screenings 9/5-9/11.
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Nobuhiko Obayashi, best known for his cult debut House (1977), built his reputation on the first version of chaos: a pop-art, kaleidoscopic heavy, absurdist horror-comedy that feels like cinema’s version of shedding.
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A strange and unlikely entry in the pseudo-genre of Action Sequels Better Than The Originals, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is a marvel of brutal action choreography visualized with an inky layer of paranoia thriller style.
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The Island of Lost Souls was and remains the most accomplished in a long list of adaptations of H.G. Wells’ 1896 novella The Island of Dr. Moreau.
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This week in Austin screenings 8/29-9/4.
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This year’s Toronto International Film Festival will premiere over 300 movies from debut directors and established auteurs like Guillermo del Toro, Chloé Zhao, Park Chan-wook and Claire Denis.
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“In here, life is beautiful, the girls are beautiful, even the orchestra is beautiful!” Joel Grey’s emcee beckons from the cool darkness of the Kit Kat Club’s stage.
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Aronofsky has met and exceeded the hype, crafting a crime thriller with real emotional heft.
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Eve of Destruction feels like a literal blast from a video store past. Part 90s action flick, part cautionary tale of the near future, it’s also a lean melodrama with just enough complexity to withstand its 90-minute run time.
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In 28 Years Later, the year is 2031. It’s the end of the world.
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