Author: Jan Hamilton

We first find Bunny (Mo Stark) running down a shabby New York street, barely making it to his apartment. We won’t find out for a while what he was running from. He and his wife argue; it’s mild, but police are called for a noise complaint and hassle them a bit. These cops tend to… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Bunny – A lot of laughs, a dash of danger

While awaiting the return of her husband from his work retreat in Tasmania, Ava (Daisy Ridley) hears the terrible news of a military experiment gone wrong that has killed half a million people. He was at the center of the disaster and is most likely dead. It was an EMP that shut down people’s brains.… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review:  We Bury the Dead

British Airways flight 149 was headed for Kuala Lumpur when it stopped in Kuwait at 01:13 (GMT) on August 2, 1990. It had left London late and, on landing, dropped off a few passengers who found the terminal empty, all other arrivals and departures having been canceled. At the Kuwaiti British Embassy, the MI6 officer… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Flight 149: Hostage of War-Documentary  Why Were We Not Warned?

Cass (they/them) is a young non-binary person trying to get by with a service job in a restaurant, as a nanny for a well-off family, and occasionally drug dealing at parties. Every month is a struggle, partly due to living in the expensive city of San Francisco. One evening, they run into a new girl… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Outerlands Adrift in San Francisco

Did you ever wish they would remake the movie Misery with a teen “biggest fan” and a rock star victim? That was the feeling I had after seeing the very entertaining movie Sweetness. Young teen Rylee Hill has been a devoted fan of moody rock star Payton has been a member of the group Floor… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Sweetness -Things aren’t what they seem to be

When law enforcement knocks on the door of the middle-class Ohio family Mark and Gail Ritchey in 2019, it seems to come out of nowhere, but Gail has been fearing this day since 1993. The dead body of a newborn, found locally all those years ago, hasbeen linked to Gail through DNA testing of a… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: BABY DOE – A Cold Case Documentary

The scene: present day. Three college students are beingdriven home by an old high school friend, Travis, played by Michell Cole, an ex-soldier with a soft southern accent. Day, the sole woman, played by Akira Jackson, is a whip-smart African American. Phinehas Yoon plays James the somewhat nihilistic Asian, and Noah Toth plays Fish (Fisher)… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review:   It Ends – An Engrossing Horror/Thriller

In this Danish/Swedish/Japanese co-production, we are told that 40% of adults in modern-day Japan say they are lonely. Increasingly, a large percentage of people live alone. We meet two such people in our film: one, a 45-year-old man we’ll call M, and a 43-year-old woman we’ll call F. M works for a business and feels… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Dear Tomorrow – A Sympathetic Documentary