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“Oldboy” director Park Chan-wook explores crime, sensuality and colonial...
South Korean director Park Chan-wook at the Fantastic Fest film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar on Sept. 22. The filmmaker was on hand to introduce his new movie “The Handmaiden.” ALYSSA...
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‘Arrival’ is the year’s best sci-fi film, bar none
“Arrival” Let’s get one thing clear: It takes nothing away from “Arrival” — as powerful as it is — to note that director Denis Villeneuve and writer Eric Heisserer were working with extraordinary raw...
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“My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea” is the greatest/most spot-on...
“I like this idea,” the character of Dash Shaw says in the filmmaker Dash Shaw’s “My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea.” “It has the quality of a dream.” That notion holds for all of Shaw’s...
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Studio Ghibli’s “The Red Turtle” is a melancholy tale of survival
Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit takes a very minimalist approach with his new feature, the first ever international co-production from legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. It’s a fairy...
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Post-apocalyptic “The Bad Batch” bites off more than it can chew
In her second full-length film, writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour throws us into a fairly specific post-apocalyptic world of her own creation and provides viewers very few details. In this (possibly)...
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Terrifying thriller “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” is not for the squeamish
For three generations in Grantham, Virginia, the Tildens have owned and operated the local morgue and crematorium. Tony (Brian Cox) has been showing his son Austin (Emile Hirsch) the ropes, but he’s...
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“Buster’s Mal Heart” examines Y2K paranoia with the help of “Mr. Robot” star...
In the post-film Q&A for her second feature, Sarah Adina Smith referred to “Buster’s Mal Heart” as “an atheist’s lament.” It’s a story not so much of dual personalities, but of how a person...
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Paul Verhoeven returns to the big screen with controversial “Elle”
For his first feature film in a decade, Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct”) originally intended to shoot in Boston and had a long list of famous actresses (including Nicole Kidman) he wanted to star....
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Julia Ducournau’s “Raw” is an unforgettable debut film
While introducing the U.S. Premiere of Julia Ducournau’s “Raw,” Fantastic Fest programmer Evrim Ersoy declared it “the most audacious genre film of 2016.” After viewing, it’s hard to argue with the...
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“Re: Born” is a brutally violent comeback for Tak Sakaguchi
“Re: Born” is a title that makes sense once you watch the latest film from Yuji Shimomura (“Death Trance”), but it might as well have been called “One Man Army.” Tak Sakaguchi (“Versus”) has come out...
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New York Paramount Building freezes clocks in honor of UT tower shooting,...
A still from “Tower” (Keith Maitland – Go-Valley LLC) New York City’s Paramount Building froze its three clocks at 11:48 a.m., and will keep them still until Oct. 13. The freeze was planned with the...
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Matthew McConaughey receives Maverick Actor Tribute for new movie ‘Gold’
Matthew McConaughey on stage during the Jack Ingram & Friends ft. Eric Church at ACL Live on April 14, 2016. Suzanne Cordeiro for American Statesman One of Austin’s jewels will be honored for his...
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What people are saying about the Austin film ‘Song to Song’
“Song to Song” filming wrapped in Austin nearly six years ago and the world finally got a look at the Terrence Malick flick at its South by Southwest premiere Friday night. The film is not short on...
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‘Pornocracy’ follows the changes in porn world
“Pornocracy” takes a look at the porn industry from a self-described feminist perspective, so you might think it would be anti-porn. Not so fast. The director is France’s one-name phenomenon and...
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‘Divine Divas’ salutes groundbreaking Brazilian artists
With all of the bathroom debate going on at the state Capitol in Austin, SXSW has decided to highlight a new documentary about Brazilian performers who were born male and pursued a life of dressing up...
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‘Honor Farm’ delightfully subverts horror genre at SXSW
What a cool idea for a movie: Tell a story that subverts every aspect of the horror genre, not in a satirical way but in a sweet and very mushroom-trippy way. That’s the essence of Austin director...
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Melissa Leo rips up the screen as Madalyn Murray O’Hair in ‘Most Hated Woman’
Melissa Leo delivers a powerhouse performance as the Austin atheist leader Madalyn Murray O’Hair in director Tommy O’Haver’s “The Most Hated Woman in America.” As O’Hair, Leo is foul-mouthed, in your...
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‘The Honor Farm’: An Austin original, with loads of talent
Louis Hunter, left, and Olivia Applegate, far right, in “The Honor Farm.” Credit: SXSW Some people see “The Honor Farm” as a psychedelic metamorphosis. Others see it as a prom nightmare. Some see it as...
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The 2nd annual Indie Meme Film Festival starts tonight!
“An Insignificant Man” The 2nd annual Indie Meme Film Festival, highlighting contemporary South Asian cinema, starts tonight at the Regal Arbor. Look for four days of narratives, documentaries and...
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That’s a wrap: Catch up on the winners and what’s next for Cannes Film Festival
Actresses Elle Fanning, from left, Nicole Kidman, director Sofia Coppola, and actress Kirsten Dunst pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film “The Beguiled” at the 70th...
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