The first feature-length film from Rocket Jump (Freddie Wong and Matthew Arnold), We’re All Gonna Die has some rough edges but is at its greatest when it finds the balance between emotional and comedic.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 5/3 - 5/9.
Read MoreSing Sing is a magician’s best trick from a filmmaker still early in his career.
Read MoreIn La Chimera, Rohrwacher delicately crafts a moving romantic tale of magical realism, entwining the immortal and mortal spheres, and those who find themselves stuck on either side.
Read MoreThe Rainbow Bridge, which was featured in the Narrative Short Program at this year’s SXSW, explores the grief of losing a pet and how it makes eccentrics of us all.
Read MoreChallengers is a hell of a film—well-performed, well-scored, well-choreographed and well worth seeing.
Read MoreIn advance of the Eastside Cinema screening of Her Dog Satan on May 4,Scott Conn, the director of Dirt Road to Psychedelia, sat down with Hyperreal Film Journal to talk about DIY filmmaking, the Austin punk scene, and Roger Corman inspirations.
Read MoreWith Dissolution, the short film which won the Narrative Shorts Jury Award at SXSW, director Anthony Saxe explores this disconnection from the past by looking to his parents. Through home videos captured in his infancy or before he was born, he investigates who his parents were to themselves and to each other when they lived completely different lives to the ones he now knows.
Read MoreNicole Daddano and Adam Wilder’s short animated film The Bleacher makes the viewer a voyeur in a dark and gritty world, centered around a laundromat where a regular has some very dirty laundry to do indeed. HFC sat down with Nicole and Adam to discuss all the strange turns the film takes and shifting from live action to animation.
Read MorePredator (1987) is, in its own quiet way, an actor’s movie. And then there’s the late, great Carl Weathers, whose soldier-turned-CIA-creep Dillon is the most complex character in Predator—a role that sees Weathers thread a tricky dramatic needle with skill and panache.
Read MoreTake a first look at the movies our team of writers can’t wait to see at Austin Film Society’s fifth annual Doc Days festival.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 4/26 - 5/2
Read MoreGhostbusters: Frozen Empire ends up an airless bore of a blockbuster, so crammed full of nostalgic enshrinement that nothing gets the space to breathe.
Read MoreFor lessons on how to yearn, check out this list of films in which the protagonists are madly in love—or at least experiencing a psychosis-inducing limerence—but the physical manifestation of their love exists in concept only.
Read MoreIt is all the more surprising then, when Sam and Mark stumble upon an empty amphitheater in Los Santos. Almost certainly, the game designers were thinking of a concert space in this moment of world building, but Sam and Mark immediately see it for its theatrical potential. They hop their Ed Hardy-clothed avatars upon the stage and begin reciting Shakespeare. It doesn’t take long for one of them to suggest the loftiest of side missions: staging a production of Hamlet within the world of Grand Theft Auto.
Read MoreWard Kamel’s beautiful and devastating short film, If I Die In America, which debuted at SXSW, tackles this question with searing aplomb. When Manny’s husband, Sameer, dies suddenly, his grief is usurped by an unexpected battle with Sameer’s family, who refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of their relationship and any claim he tries to stake on his husband’s body. I sat down with Ward to discuss his process and the thoughts and experiences that inspired the film.
Read MoreSince Saltburn’s 2022 release, critics have noted it’s similarities to The Talented Mr. Ripley, often for worse.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 4/19 - 4/25.
Read MoreSecret Mall Apartment could easily have been a straightforward hagiography of a generous, interesting artist who also lived in the walls of a mall, but director Jeremy Workman never lets the catchy hook get in the way of the larger story.
Read More“The Devil Inside Me” tells the all too relatable story of toxic relationships with a little twist. A lonely woman forms an intimate and fleeting relationship with the prince of darkness, Satan himself. After their shared night, he ghosts her, leaving her to wonder when it went wrong. This film is Sarah Uftring’s directorial debut. The Austin filmmaker took the plunge and it paid off as she has garnered accolades, praise, and recognition for her hilariously awkward comedy. This interview, we got the chance to talk about genre filmmaking, approaching a set as a first time director, the importance of collaboration, and why adding a wiggly tail to your sex scenes might be more challenging than you think!
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