S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 18, 2021 SXSW 2021 Doc Spotlight: “Spring Valley”, “When Claude Got Shot”, “Who We Are” Black issues are front and center, from reckonings with racist violence to broader discussions of the history of America's prejudice.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 18, 2021 SXSW 2021 Narrative Spotlight: “Language Lessons”, “Recovery”, “Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break” COVID-separated relationships and sociopathic actors mark SXSW's latest crop of narrative spotlight features.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 17, 2021 SXSW 2021: “Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free” is genial to a fault Mary Wharton's doc celebrates Petty's life and works, but the lack of conflict makes it hard to latch onto.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 17, 2021 SXSW 2021 Narrative Competition: “I’m Fine”, “Here Before”, “Our Father”, “The Fallout” Tales of poverty, paranoia, and adolescences framed by tragedy cap off SXSW's Narrative Feature Competition.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 17, 2021 SXSW Documentary Spotlight: “The Lost Sons”, “WeWork”, “Hysterical” Curious tales of lost children, doomed startups, and the pressures of being a female stand-up stud Day 1 of SXSW's documentary offerings.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 17, 2021 SXSW 2021: “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil” shows it’s OK to not be OK This YouTube Original documentary refuses easy answers for the pop star's struggles with addiction and mental health.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 16, 2021 SXSW 2021 Narrative Spotlight: “See You Then”, “Ludi”, “Fabulous Filipino Brothers” Two old flames reuniting, a harried nursing home worker, and Dante Basco's family affair mark SXSW's Narrative Spotlight.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 16, 2021 SXSW 2021 Narrative Competition: “Women is Losers,” “Potato Dreams of America”, “Islands”, “The End of Us” SXSW 2021's Narrative Feature Competition includes autobiographical queer comedies, COVID-set romantic dramedies, and more.
& Categories Movies May 3, 2020 “Bull” grabs its audiences by the horns and doesn’t let go Annie Silverstein's delicate, uncompromising drama uses the subculture of Black rodeo to paint an aching picture of loss, time and poverty.
S Categories Festivals Movies SXSW 2020 March 24, 2020 SXSW: Cablers of the World Unite in “Lapsis” Noah Hutton's sci-fi satire of the gig economy wraps wry humor with sly critique of the daily grind.
