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Venkatesh Maha’s Drama Meets Satyadev’s Magic in ‘Rao Bahadur’
Director Venkatesh Maha’s ‘Rao Bahadur’ creatively explores themes of oppressive patriarchal legacy through magical realism and a stellar performance from Satyadev Kancharana.
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Can Everyone Just Calm Down About ‘Supergirl’?
‘Supergirl’ might be a mediocre movie, but it hardly marks the death of female superhero cinema, as some on the internet might claim.
Featured Reviews
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‘Disclosure Day’ Masterfully Made But Misses Spielberg Classic Status
Steven Spielberg brings his signature sense of wonder to Disclosure Day, along with John Williams’ score and Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography, but the sci-fi story doesn’t quite live up to the sum of its parts.
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Big Screen ‘Backrooms’ An Unsettling But Uneven Debut for Kane Parsons
Kane Parsons becomes the latest (and youngest) in the YouTuber-to-horror-filmmaker pipeline with the A24 adaptation of his Backrooms liminal space series.
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Curry Barker’s ‘Obsession’ a Humorous and Harrowing Horror Story
YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Curry Barker’s Obsession is like Get Out for “nice guys”, blending funny, disturbing, and highly entertaining horror with surprisingly impactful themes.
Latest Reviews
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SXSW Review: 21
A special screening of the new film 21 took place at the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX as part of the SXSW Film Festival. The film is about a group of MIT students who travel to Las Vegas on weekends to count cards and win big. After the screening, members of the cast and crew…
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SXSW Review: Año Uña
Año Uña is a movie that definitely defies the regular rules of film because it tells the story in a sequence of 24 photographs flipped as the story progresses. This premiere seemed well suited for SXSW because the Mexican and American conflicts are definitely felt in Austin, Texas with full force. read more | digg…
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SXSW Review: Año Uña
Año Uña is a movie that definitely defies the regular rules of film because it tells the story in a sequence of 24 photographs flipped as the story progresses. The story takes place in modern day America and in Mexico and, just as the language changes, so do the subtitles, from translated English, to translated…
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I’m dating your dad
If you didn’t see SNL this past weekend, you missed a great Digital Short starring Jonah Hill. I’m not gonna say anything more about it, just check it out.
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SXSW Review: Goliath
SXSW film festival held a special screening of Goliath, named for a cat owned by an unnamed main character who is experiencing the bad luck in life. On top of it all, he just lost his cat. read more | digg story
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SXSW Review: Goliath
SXSW film festival held a special screening of a film called Goliath, named for a cat who is owned by an unnamed main character. This middle aged male character (David Zellner) is experiencing the bad luck in life and nothing is going right. He is getting a divorce, he is demoted from his job, and…
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The dancing prisoners are back
You might remember the Filipino prisoners who danced to Thriller a while ago, well they’re back with a new performance. Watch them do a little Soulja Boy and then break into some MC Hammer:
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Trashwire’s Wil Chinchilla to cover SXSW 2008
An astounding nine regional movie premieres will be taking place at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in Austin, TX. All of these premieres are early screenings of new mainstream movies that will serve as a testing ground for how the films will be marketed and distributed to the rest of America. The…
