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SXSW World Premiere: Laura Terruso’s ‘Fits and Starts’
Wyatt Cenac and Greta Lee in Laura Terruso’s Fits and Starts, which made its world premiere at SXSW. In many ways, Laura Terruso’s Fits and Starts is the very archetype of an indie comedy one would...
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SXSW World Premiere: ‘Life,’ starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds
Rory Adams (Ryan Reynolds) with David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Columbia Pictures’ Life. Making its world premiere at SXSW a week before it opened nationwide, Daniel Espinosa‘s Life is a space-bound...
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Interview: South Africa’s Indie Rock Quartet Diamond Thug Soaks Up First SXSW...
Diamond Thug at SXSW Music Festival 2017 Even in its 31st installment, South by Southwest is still a big deal for many music artists, especially to those invited for the first time. For indie rock band...
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Interview: England’s SuperGlu Takes No Prisoners at First U.S. Show During...
SuperGlu at 2017 SXSW Music Festival During the most intimate of moments, people let you in on the secret to what inspires them. Earlier this year in Austin, Texas at South by Southwest, guitarist Alex...
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SXSW TV: ‘American Gods’ Debuts to Overflow House
Two years ago, SXSW premiered Mr. Robot. Last year, Preacher wowed conference audiences. This year’s earthshaking TV preview was American Gods from STARZ. Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday and Ricky Whittle...
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SXSW Movie Review: ‘Boundaries’ with Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer
Director/screenwriter Shana Feste presented her engaging and robust feature world premiere Boundaries, at SXSW Film Festival. In her world premiere at the SXSW Q&A Feste suggested that the film’s...
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SXSW Movie Review: ‘Brothers’ Nest’– A Darkly Comic Crime Thriller
The new Australian film Brothers’ Nest is a cleverly constructed, bleakly humorous crime thriller that stars real-life siblings Shane and Clayton Jacobson as Terry and Jeff, brothers who concoct an...
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SXSW Movie Review: ‘Outside In’ Starring Edie Falco, Jay Duplass
Outside In screened its U.S. Premiere at SXSW Film Festival in the “Narrative Spotlight.” Directed by Lynn Shelton, written by Lynn Shelton and Jay Duplass, the quiet drama/romance uplifts. It...
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SXSW 2018 Film Interview: Talking VR with Telexist’s Sam Gezari
Among the more intriguing offerings at this year’s SXSW was the Virtual Cinema space at the JW Marriott. There, attendees had the opportunity to experience the next wave of immersive cinema. I was...
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SXSW Movie Review: ‘Brothers’ Nest’ – Memories Can Kill
Brothers’ Nest, a world premiere at the SXSW Conference in Austin, provides a horrifying twist on getting together with the family. It is also a tour-de-force for director Clayton Jacobson (Animal...
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SXSW Film World Premiere: ‘Weed the People’ Abby Epstein, Ricki Lake
The documentary Weed the People, directed by Abby Epstein and produced by Ricki Lake, had its world premiere screening at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. The film, about cannabis treatment for cancer,...
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SXSW 2018 Exclusive Interview: Filmmaker Jason Outenreath on His Immigration...
Making its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival was the feature-length documentary They Live Here, Now, conceived and directed by human rights filmmaker Jason Outenreath. Shot on location...
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SXSW Review: ‘Blindspotting’ Starring Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal collaborated on the screenplay of Blindspotting. The feature directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada opened as a “Festival Favorite” at SXSW Film Festival. Notably, this homage...
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SXSW Film Favorite: ‘First Reformed,’ Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried
First Reformed screened as a “Festival Favorite at SXSW. Paul Schrader’s film presents conundrum after conundrum, slippery slope after slippery slope. This drama as a twisting, stark thriller strikes...
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Interview: Wyldest Talks SXSW, Brexit, and Its Upcoming Debut Album
Eating good Mexican food is one of the understated perks for bands performing at South by Southwest that haven’t toured this close to the border. “We were like, ‘let’s just eat it every day, all day,'”...
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SXSW 2019 World Premiere: ‘Stuffed’
Director Erin Derham’s documentary Stuffed in its World Premiere at SXSW 2019 is a fascinating eye-opener about the preservation and celebration of animals and birds in a most unique way, through...
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SXSW World Premiere Documentary: ‘Any One of Us’
Any One of Us, a new documentary that provides an unflinching look at traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCIs), is certainly one of the most powerful and inspirational films making its debut at SXSW this...
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SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 13 (Austin, Texas)
Like all good things, there’s generally work that has to be done before you can start to enjoy the fruits of your labor. If you’re really lucky, you enjoy that “work” part as well. Unfortunately,...
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SXSW 2019: Robert Rodriguez Film School and ‘Red 11’
If you needed to raise money to make a film, would you submit to being a human lab rat for experimental drugs? That’s exactly what filmmaker Robert Rodriguez did 25 years ago to raise money for his...
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SXSW 2019 Film Review: Story About Desperate Mom ‘Alice’ Earns Two Awards
Alice was not on my list of films to see at the SXSW Conference, which took place in Austin, TX, from March 8-17, but, as often happens at festivals, I had a couple of uncommitted hours and there was...
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