Fantastic Fest 2015 in Storify
Whenever I’m at a festival, I tend to do a lot of social media posts about what’s going on. Here’s a collection of my social media posts about Fantastic Fest 2015! [View the story...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Don’t See Wolf Totem: It’s Terrible!
Every so often you see a film that is so misguided that you wish you could travel back to the meeting where the people who brought you the film decided to go ahead with...
It’s Robert Redford’s Birthday!
The always fabulous Robert Redford turns 79 today. In addition to his film roles and starting the Sundance Film Festival, we tend to take his enormous intellect and thoughtfulness for granted. If you’ve ever...
Looking Into “The Crystal Ball” Worth It
I’ve had a bad cold this week, so I’ve been trying to entertain myself with films. Stumbling over this 1943 film about a beauty contest entrant who fills in for a flim-flammy fortune...
I’m So Excited About FELT
One of the films that I was so excited about at Fantastic Fest last year was FELT. FELT is unusual in that it feels a lot more like a performance art piece than it...
SXSW in Storify
After my last houseguest left yesterday, I’m still cleaning up from South by Southwest. If you’d like to see what I did, you can read the timeline on Storify! [View the story “My SXSW...
