"Woodstockers" just celebrated their world premiere at this year's SXSW. This independent feature film follows two friends that in the summer of 1969 went to Woodstock and never left. Now half a century later, a series of unfortunate events leaves Lenny having to face a hard truth, that better
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
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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
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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
The Apothecary Diaries has the cast finally begin to prepare for the incoming locust plague in Ep. 52 "The Last Volume". Sure, they could've prepared much sooner. However, without the intel gained in this episode, those preparations wouldn't have been nearly as guided as they are here. Now it's
For a film called All Of A Sudden, very little happens suddenly in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s sensitive portrayal of friendship and care. The director (Drive My Car) has a particularly patient style of filmmaking that is not universally appealing, but it captures humanity in all its messy earnestness.
Sasaki and Peeps gives us plots galore being brewed up, as you might expect from Ep. 15 "Concealment and Infiltration" with that title. Complete with both the faking of a death and an undercover operation to investigate the death game faction. It's all great ingredients for some serious political
