AUSTIN – When Olivia Wilde stripped her clothes off in front of Jake Johnson in “Drinking Buddies,” you could hear an audible gasp in the Paramount theater during the film’s premiere at South B...
AUSTIN -- What is readily apparent from Joe Swanberg’s latest film “Drinking Buddies” is that the actors genuinely liked each other. In a press event following the film’s premiere at South...
AUSTIN - The easy temptation would be to say that Joe Swanberg has made some sort of major jump from the films that he has made in the past to his new film, "Drinking Buddies," which made its debut tonight a...
I am on the ground in Austin and getting ready for the start of SXSW, the annual orgy of movies and music and comedy and barbecue that remains one of the most purely social film festivals I've ever attended.
SXSW h...
At this year's SXSW film festival, magic will be in the air.
"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," a comedy starring Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi as Las Vegas illusionists who are forced to step up th...
“Looks like somebody wasn’t in on the joke.”
These are words a colleague said after the Fantastic Fest Debates this weekend, about an hour after critic Devin Faraci’s clock was cleaned by film...
AUSTIN -- It's only right that Fantastic Fest's signature event is the potent combination of intellectual discourse, visual culture and blood sport. The Fantastic Fest Debates have become more prominent with each pass...
In "You're Next," during a family reunion getaway, the Davison family comes under a sadistic attack. When Crispian Davison (Bowen) brings his new girlfriend (Vinson) along to celebrate the wedding anniver...
Anthology movies are incredibly difficult to pull off, and when you add "anthology film" to "found footage," a genre buzzword that is starting to wear out its welcome thanks to countless awful exam...
It's one thing to make a film that plays to a horror audience, but it's much harder to make a film that can satisfy the hardcore genre fans while also playing to a broader audience that doesn't necessarily know and lo...
