SXSW Serves Film Fanatics with Movies About Movies
Working on the reasonable assumption that people who attend film festivals are receptive to films about other films, SXSW programmers sprinkled the 2013 lineup with a number of biographical…
Joe Leydon
SXSW Review: 'The Retrieval'
Equal parts suspenseful road movie, persuasively detailed period drama and emotionally resonant coming-of-age story, "The Retrieval" is an outstanding example of regional indie filmmaking…
Film Review: 'Cheap Thrills'
"Cheap Thrills" is a thoroughly nasty piece of work, which doubtless will be the strongest selling point for this worst-case scenario about steadily escalating dares and degradations. Playing like…
Film Review: 'The Network'
The power of television to reflect and effect change in a society during an epochal period of transition is vividly examined in "The Network," Eva Orner's illuminating documentary about the founding…
Film Review: 'Haunter'
Imagine "Groundhog Day" as a haunted-house thriller, and you're ready for "Haunter," a modestly inventive variation on genre conventions that could attract a respectable audience in limited…
Film Review: 'Milo'
Yet another attempt to blend gross-out humor, bloody mayhem and monster thriller cliches into a hodge-podge sufficiently appealing to achieve cult status, "Milo" seems ready-made to serve as…
Film Review: 'An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story'
Documentarian Al Reinert effectively emphasizes understatement in "An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story," recounting an outrageous miscarriage of justice without a trace of manufactured…
SXSW Review: 'Hours'
Paul Walker stars in this slow-building, consistently engrossing Hurricane Katrina drama.
SXSW Review: 'When Angels Sing'
Aimed squarely at auds seeking family-friendly, holiday-themed entertainment, "When Angels Sing" is an innocuously pleasant trifle that likely would be more at home in the Hallmark Movie Channel…
SXSW Review: 'Some Girl(s)'
In the world according to playwright-screenwriter Neil LaBute, men continually behave badly -- some much worse than others -- and the nameless protagonist of "Some Girl(s)" certainly is no exception…
