Sources: Lionsgate, Amazon Studios Based on the real-life courtship between Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, THE BIG SICK tells the story of Pakistan-born aspiring comedian Kumail (Nanjiani), who connects with grad student Emily (Zoe Kazan) after one of his standup sets. However, what they thought would be just a one-night stand blossoms into the real thing, which complicates the life that is expected… Continue reading Movie Trailer: THE BIG SICK
Category: Festivals
SXSW 2017 Review: FITS AND STARTS
By Laurie Coker Rating: B Having enjoyed Sally Fields’ quirky little comedy, Hello My Name is Doris, seeing another film by writer/director Laura Terruso seemed a good option at SXSW this year. Indie films make for some of the best and yes, sometimes, the worst of the festival. Fits and Starts follows a struggling novelist… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: FITS AND STARTS
SXSW 2017 Review: RAMBLIN’ FREAK
By Jan Hamilton Parker Smith is a young filmmaker who lives in Austin. In this documentary film, he goes online to locate an inexpensive used movie camera for his projects. What he buys is a barely used camera with a tape still in it. When he plays the tape he finds connections to his life,… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: RAMBLIN’ FREAK
SXSW 2017 Review: LEMON
By Jan Hamilton Brett Gelman stars as a middle aged actor who teaches a drama class, while seeking acting jobs, in this mostly funny film. Isaac is a humorless man whose life is all suddenly going wrong. Ramona, his blind girlfriend of ten years, seems to be losing interest, and his career is lagging. His Jewish… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: LEMON
SXSW 2017 Review: TWO PIGEONS
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
SXSW 2017 Film News: AS I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY
By Liz Lopez The premier pop culture event in the Rio Grande Valley, the South Texas Comic Con, returns for its fourth year and will be held at the McAllen Convention Center from April 28th to April 30th with a wide variety of activities for fans. The three day event offers panels with invited celebrities,… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Film News: AS I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY
SXSW 2017 Review: FREE FIRE
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Acclaimed British director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers, High Rise) brought his latest film to this year’s SXSW. Free Fire, which features an extraordinary cast portraying a motley mix of colorful characters, is a classic “shoot ’em up” flick that delivers plenty of great lines and… Continue reading SXSW 2017 Review: FREE FIRE
Fantastic Fest 2016/SXSW 2017 Review: COLOSSAL
By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) I first watched this truly unique and amazing film at Fantastic Fest last year, and when I heard that it would play SXSW 2017, I just had to make time to watch it again. Leave it to bold and brilliant filmmaker Nacho Vigalando (Timecrimes, Extraterrestrial) to take… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2016/SXSW 2017 Review: COLOSSAL
SXSW 2017 Review: 68 KILL
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
SXSW 2017 Review: A BAD IDEA GONE WRONG
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