Sister & Sister (Las hijas), el primer largometraje de la escritora y directora panameño-costarricense Kattia G. Zúñiga, tuvo su estreno mundial en la sección Global en marzo durante el Festival de Cine y TV SXSW 2023, en Austin, Texas. Hubo cuatro proyecciones de SXSW disponibles para ver durante el festival. La historia semiautobiográfica está escrita… Continue reading SXSW 2023 Critica: SISTER & SISTER
Category: Festivals
SXSW – Raging Grace – a tepid thriller
I love mystery thrillers, so I was drawn to Raging Grace, a film touted as just that, and yet, I was not thrilled, and I found the mystery transparent. Regardless, director Paris Zarcilla manages, with the help of a solid cast, a creepy, slightly suspenseful flick. She pulls out all the necessary elements – crazed… Continue reading SXSW – Raging Grace – a tepid thriller
SXSW 2023 Critica: Flamin’ Hot Estreno Mundial en el Festival de Cine y TV, Pronto en HULU
Flamin’ Hot es una próxima película de biografía / drama / historia dirigida por Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives) que tuvo su estreno mundial en el Festival de Cine y TV SXSW en Austin, TX en marzo de 2023. La película es una de las favoritas del público y es la ganadora del Premio del Público… Continue reading SXSW 2023 Critica: Flamin’ Hot Estreno Mundial en el Festival de Cine y TV, Pronto en HULU
SXSW 2023: LATE BLOOMERS
Louise is a screw-up. She drinks too much and stalks her ex-boyfriend, who has moved on to a new relationship. While trying to climb to a window to see his new apartment, Louise slips, falls to the sidewalk, and breaks her hip. In the hospital, she is roommates with Antonia, an older Polish woman who… Continue reading SXSW 2023: LATE BLOOMERS
SXSW 2023: IF YOU WERE THE LAST
Two astronauts are on a mission stretched to three years because they have lost their navigation and communication systems. Adam and Jane can be relatively self-sufficient, with hens that provide eggs, a goat for milk, and a sustainable garden. Adam is sad because he is down to his last few pop-tarts. They get along well,… Continue reading SXSW 2023: IF YOU WERE THE LAST
SXSW 2023: THE STARLING GIRL
When you hear the film’s premise, you might assume, “lecherous youth pastor seduces innocent teen,” but that’s not quite the case here. Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling has had a crush on a youth pastor named Owen for a while. He and his wife have just returned from a mission to Puerto Rico that lasted a year,… Continue reading SXSW 2023: THE STARLING GIRL
SXSW 2023: HAIL MARY
This film reimagines the Mary and Joseph story with some nice supernatural and twenty-first-century twists. We first meet Maria, an innocent teen in Belize who inexplicably finds herself pregnant. A menacing stranger arrives to kill her, but she escapes after he slays her friends and family. The stranger tells people he is Baal, a biblical… Continue reading SXSW 2023: HAIL MARY
SXSW 2023: THE WRATH OF BECKY
We pick up our story two years after the first film, Becky, left off. Now an orphan, sixteen-year-old Becky lives with an elderly black woman who took her in. She works at a diner, and no one wonders why she’s not in school. Becky seems to be doing okay until she encounters rude jerks at… Continue reading SXSW 2023: THE WRATH OF BECKY
SXSW 2023: THE ARTIFICE GIRL
The film starts with the interview of a presumed pedophile by Deena and Amos, two government agents. Their subject, Gareth, has worked worldwide for various computer and CGI companies. The agents believe he has something to do with a child porn site of a young girl named Cherry; they think he knows where the girl… Continue reading SXSW 2023: THE ARTIFICE GIRL
SXSW 2023: IT LIVES INSIDE
This film gives a new slant to horror films, with a Hindu back story. Sam (Megan Suri) is a modern American teen of Hindu descent. At the same time, her mom is a housewife who wears beautiful saris, cooks excellent ethnic dishes (that Sam barely eats), and clings to her religion and old superstitions. In… Continue reading SXSW 2023: IT LIVES INSIDE