Sicario: A Difficult Film About a Difficult Topic
The lighting is harsh, the landscape is ugly, the body count is high and the performances are outstanding, even if the characters are difficult to like. Sicaro is an ugly film full of ugly...
Author: Anna
Check Out Today’s Statesman Column on Fantastic Fest and Africa!
Today’s column on Fantastic Fest ran in the online-only version of the Austin-American Statesman. Click here to read it. Since M3NSA Ansah told me the first “Coz Ov Moni” film was viewable on YouTube,...
Hanks: Fantastic Fest offers quick trip to other side of world
By Anna Hanks – Special to the American-Statesman Posted: 1:59 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 When I was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, my childhood friend Brian Hollis had...
Fever Dream of Fantastic Debates
Last night I had what must have been a fever dream, because there’s really no way that I was at a boxing match at Randy Palmer’s South Austin Gym, where Guillermo del Toro, Elijah...
Dark Whimsy at Fantastic Fest 2015
Some years at Fantastic Fest the lineup is all about torture porn, or science fiction, or damsel-in-distress films. This year Fantastic Fest is all about dark whimsy, and I couldn’t be more excited about...
Thee Oh Sees Are Playing Austin Tonight! And Tomorrow!
I bet you all know that Thee Oh Sees have a show in Austin at Hotel Vegas tonigh and tomorrow night. They are a really fun band! A couple of years ago, I got...
The Minus 5: Awesome!
This Saturday night my husband took me to see The Minus 5 at The Continental Club in Austin. While I had heard him talk about the band–as well as about Scott McCaughey‘s earlier group...
Partytime Idea
Cleaning off some photo drives, I found these pictures from the Austin City Limits Music Festival last year. These ribbon decorations were in the Austin Kiddie Limits area, and I just love them. I...
Fantastic Fest Yearbook
Last year at Fantastic Fest, I did a small series of portraits that I thought might be like a Fantastic Fest Yearbook, as the festival is sort of like high school. So in the...
Looking Forward To the Closing Night Party at Fantastic Fest
One of the reasons I love Fantastic Fest is that the Closing Night Party is always awesome–although sometimes if you are on deadline you can’t get there! This year the Fantastic Fest closing night...
