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Made by anarchist gay author James Robert Baker (as James Dillinger) for less than $2,000 as part of the EZTV collective—a digital art and video collective based in Los Angeles since 1983—Blonde Death follows innocent Mississippi teen Tammy Lynn Beaudorf on a journey of bisexual corruption and violent rampage.
Read MoreHyperreal Film Club’s Matthew Seidel sat down with Erica Schultz to discuss her new book, The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills in Film, her successful indiegogo campaign, Letterboxd, and the Austin film scene.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 4/12-4/18.
Read MoreCivil War proves that Alex Garland still has some gas in the tank, exploring the morality of the media’s relationship with war while still holding the press in deep reverence.
Read MoreBloodSisters is even more appreciable as a portrait of queer identity, diving deep into the intricacies of solidarity and sexual pleasure simply by allowing its subjects to speak for themselves.
Read MoreYou can feel the passion oozing off of Monkey Man. Patel went away to iron out every detail, to the point where it feels like you can see the movie playing in his head. The stylish action sequences are bolstered by a killer score from Jed Kurzel that thumps along to each and every hit.
Read MoreHead takes the silliness of The Monkees sitcom and dials it up to surrealist heights.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 4/5 - 4/11.
Read MoreYou’re not hardcore unless you live hardcore… by watching these movies.
Read MoreTwo made-for-TV takes on ghosts, Amazing World of Ghosts (1978) and The Woman in Black (1989), are covered in this Psychotronic Drive-In installment.
Read MoreFrom its opening moment, unconventionally non-cinematic, director Jonathan Glazer announces the psychic essence of The Zone of Interest, one structured by its absences and what it decides not to show us.
Read MoreA deep dive into the figure of the American housewife in Todd Haynes’ films.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 3/29-4/4.
Read MoreBionico’s Bachata is a refreshing gut-punch.
Read MoreThe Promised Land is a reminder that an epic doesn’t need all the bells and whistles we have grown accustomed to—it can be about something seemingly insignificant, like a man trying to farm.
Read MoreLove Lies Bleeding is a gutsy exclamation point that doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks of it.
Read MoreYou’ll either feel I Saw the TV Glow kick you right in that soft part of your soul, or you won't.
Read MoreDesert Road, which had its world premiere at SXSW, follows Clare as she finds herself trapped next to her crashed car within walking distance from a gas station and a fenced-off factory.
Read MoreDrafthouse’s Lars Nilsen and Zane Gordon-Bouzard introduced their February 7 feature, Over The Edge, as the fifth in a series of juvenile delinquent films, an exploitation subgenre that surged in the late 70s/early 80s with films like The Warriors, Scum and the Spanish quinqui dramas but is rarely seen today.
Read MoreBoobs! Brews! Big screens! What could be more American than that? Why, worker exploitation, of course!
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