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SXSW 2019 Film Review: Two with Twang – ‘The Journey of Johnny Cash’ and...
SXSW started as a music festival and the films came later. One of the joys of the current SXSW Conference, which took place in Austin, TX, from March 8-17, is the film series called “24 Beats Per...
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SXSW 2019 Film Review: ‘The Highwaymen’ – An Un-Remake of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’
In an era when every third film out of Hollywood is a remake, seeing a new take on an old story is refreshing. The Highwaymen, by Netflix, approaches a tale we have probably seen before, the story of...
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SXSW 2019 Documentary Review: ‘Autonomy’: Self-Driving Cars: Can You Sleep at...
Documentaries were, more often than in the past, the center of attention at this year’s SXSW Conference, which took place in Austin, TX, from March 8-17. Besides celebrating music and film, SXSW...
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SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 14 (Austin, Texas)
A full Thursday at South By Southwest separated the real adults from those just pretending to be, as countless people gallivanted from venue to venue in a surprisingly mild Austin, Texas. For obvious...
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SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 15 (Austin, Texas)
Sleep deprivation hit me hard on Friday, March 15, 2019. Trying to maximize a weeklong South by Southwest is always tiring, and for some reason, it feels like it’s only me suffering in Austin, Texas....
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World Premieres and Notable Speakers Highlight SXSW 2020
The film and entertainment tracks at this year’s SXSW conference will present 99 world premiere features, five U.S. premieres, and 75 films from first-time filmmakers. There will also be many speakers...
View ArticleSXSW Music Festival 2020: R.I.P. (March 16–22)
I was oh-so-close to publishing my music festival preview for the 34th annual South by Southwest for March 16-22, 2020. Unfortunately, I deleted everything and started from scratch, as the City of...
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Virtual SXSW: Film Review – ‘Drunk Bus’
One of the many casualties of this year’s canceled SXSW Festival is Drunk Bus, the feature debut from directors John Carlucci and Brandon LaGanke. It’s a ruefully funny film that deserves theatrical...
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Virtual SXSW: Film Review –‘We Don’t Deserve Dogs’
Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker’s new documentary, We Don’t Deserve Dogs, opens by introducing us to a stray dog named Chino (or Rucio or Coloso, depending on whom he’s visiting), living on the streets...
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Virtual SXSW: Short Film Review –‘Run On’ Brings the Angst in Just 12 Minutes
When people think about movies, they tend to think about features. Those are the 80- to 120-minute or more stories or documentaries that we often come to associate with stages or turning points in our...
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Virtual SXSW: Film Review – ‘Tomboy’ Spotlights Four Female Drummers
Lindsay Lindenbaum’s Tomboy takes an earnest look at an unrecognized segment of the music scene: female drummers. As she chronicles the stories of four different women, each representing a generation...
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Virtual SXSW: ‘My Darling Vivian’: The First Mrs. Johnny Cash
SXSW began as a music festival and the films (and the ED, MED, Games, et al.) came later. One of the things I’ve enjoyed about the conference since I began covering it in 2012, are the “24 Beats Per...
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Virtual SXSW: Film Review –‘Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time’
There are certain places, like Paris in the 1930s or Italy during the Renaissance, where just the right combination of freedom, people and culture come together to allow creativity to blossom like...
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Virtual SXSW: Film Review – ‘The Mojo Manifesto’: Punk Country Crooning
Many events, like the SXSW Conferences, have been canceled this year because of the Coronavirus. Cancelation has an ironic twist for a film that had been scheduled to world premiere as part of the...
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SXSW TV Review: Sequel to David Bowie Classic ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’...
The first two episodes of the new TV series The Man Who Fell to Earth premiered at the 2022 SXSW Conference. SXSW, which began in 1987, returned this year to live presentations after two years of...
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SXSW Movie Review: ‘Emergency’ Walks the Thriller/Comedy Tightrope
Making a film funny and a thriller at the same time require a great sense of balance on the creativity tightrope. Director Carey Williams has that balance. His film Emergency was a delightful surprise...
View ArticleSXSW Film Review: Ron Howard’s ‘We Feed People’ Spotlights Chef José Andrés
Making its premiere at SXSW 2022 was Ron Howard’s entertaining and exciting documentary We Feed People, focusing on celebrity chef José Andrés and his World Central Kitchen, an organization that...
View ArticleSXSW Film Review: Horror-Thriller ‘Soft & Quiet’
Soft & Quiet is a horror-thriller feature film written and directed by Beth de Araújo. Presumably set in a Southern town, the events play out in real time, which gives the movie a striking...
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SXSW Welcomes Dolly Parton with ‘Still Working 9 to 5,’ James Patterson and NFTs
The SXSW Conference, which has been spotlighting great music, movies, and technology since the 1980s, found something new this year: Dolly Parton. Parton had never attended SXSW before. This year,...
View ArticleSXSW Feature Film Review: ‘Women Do Cry’
Women Do Cry, a powerful Bulgarian drama, premiered at SXSW 2022. In this profound film, writers/directors Vesela Kazakova and Mina Mileva explore intergenerational family issues. They also reveal how...
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