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The time has come to bid farewell to the South by Southwest Film Festival. Well, the name, at least. SXSW said today that its annual ode to the screen is rebranding as the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival, owing to the growing number of episodics in the screening program. It’s been a decade…

South by Southwest Conference and Festivals is expanding beyond Austin, Texas to bring its famed celebration of the technology, film and music industries to Sydney, Australia from October 15-22, 2023. Like SXSW, which has taken place each March since 1987, SXSW Sydney will offer an opportunity for an exploration of…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Reel Suspects has acquired international sales right to Addison Heimann’s horror thriller Hypochondriac. The pic is billed as an elevated genre film and recently premiered in the Midnighters section at SXSW. XYZ is releasing the film in the U.S. later on in July. Written and directed by first…

EXCLUSIVE: Kestrin Pantera’s satirical takedown of the rich elite, Pretty Problems, has been acquired by IFC Films following the pic’s Narrative Spotlight Audience Award win at SXSW. The pic will hit theaters and VOD this year. IFC is taking all global rights to the pic written by Michael Tennant, Britt Rentschler and…

Some movie stars can hold the screen without saying a word, their faces etched with such character they arrest attention. From an earlier era, Robert Mitchum, William Holden and Jean Gabin come to mind. Julián Moreno possesses that kind of face – deeply lined, with a gaze that at times feels engaged in the distance…

UPDATED, 12:23 PM: South by Southwest Conference and Festivals today announced the Audience Award winners for the 29th SXSW Film Festival, with the Patton Oswalt comedy I Love My Dad, FX’s comedy series Atlanta, Sony Pictures Classics’ music doc The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile and AMC’s drama…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the hottest genres in filmed entertainment right now – fiction or nonfiction – are swindler stories, movies or series that delve into people who present a false front while committing nefarious deeds. Think of Inventing Anna,The Tinder Swindler or Bad Vegan. The new documentary The Thief Collector…

SXSW is still on-going with the music portion at the center of attention, but the films at this years festival were unforgettable. Because SXSW champions independent cinema, it gives move lovers like me the chance to discover movies I wouldn’t have heard of outside of traveling to Austin. Below I provide some quick…

A gunman opened fire early Sunday morning as bars closed at the intersection of East 6th and Neches streets in Austin, Texas. The shooting resulting in four people being injured in the busy entertainment area, which is filled with popular restaurants and bars with live entertainment. The call came in at 2 a.m. on…

"Sounds like Santa's slave, but I respect the rebrand," says Donald Glover's Earn to his Dutch driver's explain of the Sinterklaas tradition and the question of "What's with all the blackface?" in the second episode of Atlanta's third and penultimate season. Yes, Atlanta is back, and if the first two episodes are an…

After spending 90 minutes watching major league celebrity chef Jose Andres hustling to deliver food to desperate people in far-flung corners of the globe, it's almost shocking to see him being tripped up simply because his little plane has run out of gas. By this time, you believe that this guy could just keep running…

Director Ti West’s X is a new love letter to the slasher film genre. This movie within a movie aims to tackle the strict relationship between sex, violence, desire and the rage that manifests when one’s life lacks all of those things. West employs all the tropes involved with pornography and horror and tries to inject…