Directors Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s feature film, Vesper, written by Samper, Buozyte and Brian Clark, is one of the best dystopian films that I have viewed lately. Aside from the authentic feel of the story with the homelessness and lack of food for many, Raffiella Chapman (The Theory of Everything), brings to life the… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2022: VESPER
Category: Roundtop Film Festival
FANTASTIC FEST IS BACK!
After going mostly virtual in 2020, and having a “soft re-opening” in 2021, Austin’s favorite genre film festival has a “grand re-opening” planned for this Thursday night. With close to 100 films promised, and plenty of wildly fun events planned, this year’s Fantastic Fest claims to be a return to form. As someone who has… Continue reading FANTASTIC FEST IS BACK!
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: FILM LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT
FANTASTIC FEST ANNOUNCES A COLOSSAL 2022 LINEUP, OPENING THE FEST WITH THE WORLD PREMIERE OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES’ TERRIFYING NEW HORROR FEATURE ‘SMILE’ AND THE U.S. PREMIERE OF NEON’S ‘TRIANGLE OF SADNESS’ AS CLOSING NIGHT FILM Searchlight’s THE MENU and THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, A24’s MEDUSA DELUXE, MGM and Distributor United Artists Releasing’s BONES AND ALL,… Continue reading FANTASTIC FEST 2022: FILM LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT
SXSW 2022 Film Review and News: The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile
The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile, directed by Kathlyn Horan (The If Project), made its World Premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in March and went on to win the Audience Award in the 24 Beats Per Second category. Sony Pictures Classics acquired worldwide rights to the feature documentary shortly after… Continue reading SXSW 2022 Film Review and News: The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile
SXSW 2022 Film Review and News: What We Leave Behind
The 2022 Film Festival program included 100 features including 76 World Premieres, and among them is Austin-based Director Iliana Sosa’s documentary, What We Leave Behind (Lo que dejamos atrás). She received the 2021 AFS Grant for this, her first feature documentary. The film centers on Sosa’s grandfather, Julian (over 80 years old), who is told… Continue reading SXSW 2022 Film Review and News: What We Leave Behind
Fantastic Fest 2021 Review: BINGO HELL
By Liz Lopez Rating: B+ It is hard not to have the film title, Bingo Hell, jump out among the many films offered during the festival. Everyone may not be intrigued, but it will most definitely catch the attention for any of us who have or had ties to the Bingo world, whether personally or… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2021 Review: BINGO HELL
Film Review and Interview – The Boy from Medellin
By Liz Lopez Rating: B- Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghosts, A Private War), an Academy Award®-nominee and Emmy-winning filmmaker, changes course with this music biography doc about one of the biggest international music superstars, J Balvin (born Jose Alvaro Osorio Balvin) from Medellin, Colombia. The Boy from Medellin takes a look at a… Continue reading Film Review and Interview – The Boy from Medellin