There’s a particular kind of electricity that only a great sports movie can generate. It’s not all about the glossy, slow-motion highlight reel kind. They’re the kind that remind you that sports aren’t just about winning. They’re about identity, pressure, and the quiet, complicated ways
Drag is the kind of film that you want to go into completely blind. I will not spoil anything in this review! Drag (2026) comes from the mind of Raviv Ullman, who co-directed with Greg Yagolnitzer, best known as the star of Disney’s Phil of the Future. Coming out of SXSW, this is my favorite film
Dead Eyes drops you directly into the nightmare…whether you want to be there or not. Told entirely through a first-person POV, the film follows Sean (Rijen Lane) and his fiancée, Grace (Ana Thu Nguyen), as they venture deep into a remote forest in search of Sean’s missing father. His
!['Wishful Thinking' - A Sci-Fi Romance That Redefines the Modern Rom-Com [SXSW Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Wishful-Thinking-660x372.webp "Wishful Thinking")
In Wishful Thinking, love isn’t just complicated, it’s cosmically unstable. Charlie (Lewis Pullman), a struggling musician, and Julia (Maya Hawke), an ambitious video game designer, are stuck in that uniquely frustrating relationship purgatory: they can’t make it work, but they can’t seem
Director-writer duo Alex Prager and Vanessa Prager bring their dystopian science fiction satire Dreamquil (2026) to SXSW with a film that blends retro aesthetics, AI anxiety, and domestic discontent. The story centers on Carol (Elizabeth Banks), a wife and mother struggling to balance career
Writer/Director Macon Blair is trying to bring back the chaotic road-trip comedy with The Shitheads. But does it work? I’m unsure. There are moments that land and genuine laughs sprinkled throughout, but it has left me wondering if the movie itself misses the mark or if I’ve simply outgrown this
Let’s talk about one of my favorite films to come out of SXSW, Edie Arnold is a Loser. The story is a coming-of-age indie film that channels teenage alienation through the raw energy of punk. The story follows the shy Catholic School dork, Edie Arnold, who is dragged against her will to a punk
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride is fantastically unhinged in the most delicious and deliberate way. This is not a nostalgic retread of Frankenstein. It is a reclamation project. A gothic romance filtered through 1930s Chicago Mob grit, stitched together with satire, horror, and a sharp awareness of
There's a growing trend in cinema right now, and that is the trend of movies being fun again. Just a good old-fashioned time at the theater (or home since streaming accounts for most viewership these days) filled with laughs and action and heart that remind you why you go to escape in the first
It was just three years ago that the world was introduced to the magical world of The Super Mario Bros. Movie. That film was a runaway success at the box office and was surprisingly great, considering some of the gripes coming into it. Now, we're getting a sequel that is adapting one of the most
Remaking Faces of Death is a hell of a move in 2026. Although, this movie doesn't really remake that diabolical film from 1978, it instead takes inspiration from it and it even exists in the universe that this film takes place in. So getting that out of the way so that the horror "diehards" who
