!['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
!["Poetic License" Laugh Out Loud Coming of Age Buddy Comedy [SXSW Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Poetic-License-Still-Image-660x357.webp "Poetic License – Still Image")
There seems to be something in the water over at the Apatow house. The irreverent comedy is alive and well, the mantle carried by Maude Apatow in her directorial debut with Poetic License. Everything you love about buddy comedies, foul-mouthed protagonists, and aimless man-child antics are all
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
I am not the target audience for 1000 Women In Horror. I'm a seasoned horror fan who knows how important women are and have been to the history of the genre. Horror is a woman. Think about it, sure, the masters of horror might all be men (until we make a new bunch of masters), but they all used
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
There's no sense in burying the lede here. Obsession is about as good as horror gets, making an absolute meal out of its simple premise and delivering just about everything you could want from a genre film. It's smart, sometimes funny, always entertaining and often downright terrifying. Its expert
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
Let's keep it really simple with this review, Project Hail Mary is one of those movies that you watch and while you're sitting in the theater, you're hoping you can somehow go back and see it for the first time again. There are scenes, sections, moments, pieces of this film that dazzle, that charm,
I remember seeing the trailer for The Dog Stars and having my eyes roll back in my head. Do we really need more post-apocalyptic stories when we're living in a real life apocalypse? Do we need another movie that has an analog for COVID-19 and the aftermath that had on our own society. Well,
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
Dinosaurs may be the most beloved creatures to ever exist - sans cute puppies and cats on the internet. They're usually everyone first obsession when they're young, and no one ever gets tired of seeing a T-rex. So why are most dinosaur movies, built on the backs of surefire hit animal so bad all
