Film Reviews
With the cast all giving fun performances and the visual effect creativity dialed up to eleven, you can’t help but cheer and clap.
In my second report from this year’s SXSW, I dive into three more very unique titles including science fiction, teenage drama, and horror.
Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin is a loving tribute that is a must-watch for fans of horror or Euro cult films.
The Middle Man was a happy surprise that is fun and heartfelt, tragic and funny.
If you can remove expectations, Children of the Corn may be an enjoyable watch. But, the source material deserved better.
Until Branches Bend’s lackluster attempt to craft tension and urgency leaves its audience uninvested and without curiosity for more.
SXSW Film Festival 2023, Report 1: CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT, SISTER & SISTER And RAGING GRACE
My first foray into this year’s SXSW festival is a trio of first-time feature debuts by directors from various parts of the world.
Ultimately, Mister Organ is a fascinating – and hilarious – look at one man’s rampant narcissism and how it affects those he comes into contact with.
Free Skate is an engaging character-driven drama that skates the edge of being a thriller as it progresses.
While Still the Water feels pleasant, its existential questions are frustratingly left untraversed by its subtlety.
Initially, a terrific, tense, and brutal tale of class warfare, animalistic nature, and devastating consequences, over 2 1/2 hrs, it can’t sustain.
Ultimately, God’s Creatures is a well made, well acted piece of filmmaking, if only it was able to tie together its elements a little better.
Unwelcome works as a decent horror film in general, but with St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, it takes on a new vibrancy of success.
Rebroken has really good first and second acts, but somewhere along the way it loses its confidence.