Category: Festivals

By Jan Hamilton Each morning Hussein (Mim Shaikh) wakes in his London flat and prepares for his day at work as a real estate agent for a crooked firm, his job is to skin as many foreigners as possible. After he leaves, a skeleton of a man (Javier Botet) emerges from a small space between… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: TWO PIGEONS

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) My first Midnighter of the festival comes from Snowfort Pictures and writer/director Trent Haaga, the brilliant and wicked writer behind 2013’s Cheap Thrills.  With those wonderfully creative insane folks behind this film, there was no way I could miss it.  68 Kill offers a dark, twisted… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: 68 KILL

By Mark Saldana  Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) One of my first films of this year’s festival was a rather amusing comedy that reminds me of “slacker” comedies from the 90s (Clerks, Reality Bites, Kicking and Screaming).  As a man who went through his late teens and twenties during that era, I rather enjoyed… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: A BAD IDEA GONE WRONG

By Liz Lopez Source: Strand Releasing “The Transfiguration” is written and directed by Michael O’Shea and stars Eric Ruffin and Chloe Levine. It was an Official Selection at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and in March at the SXSW Film Festival 2017 in Austin. Writer/director Michael O’Shea’s debut feature, “The Transfiguration,” follows troubled teen Milo (Ruffin)… Continue reading SXSW 2017 News: THE TRANSFIGURATION Has A Theatrical Release

By Liz Lopez Rating: A During the SXSW Film Festival last month, I viewed the documentary, “As I Walk Through the Valley” from the directors, Ronnie Garza and Charlie Vela. The film had the World Premiere in the 24 Beats Per Second category and I throughly loved the film. It is one of the memorable… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: AS I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY

By Jan Hamilton Small Crimes, not to be confused with Small Town Crime, which also played at this year’s SXSW, is an enjoyable film with some great performances. We follow Joe Denton (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) a crooked cop just out of jail who viciously attacked and disfigured a district attorney while he (Joe) was in a drug soaked… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: SMALL CRIMES

By Jan Hamilton Beck (Renée Felice Smith, from the CBS show NCIS: Los Angeles) directed, wrote and stars in this frothy flick.  She and Liam (Matt Bush) meet and decide to take a trip to the desert.  They are going as friends and assure each other they don’t want a relationship. The two charming leads… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: THE RELATIONTRIP