(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival will host nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Chris Reed’s Secret Mall Apartment movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Urban renewal programs—most often […]

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Following its TIFF premiere last fall and upcoming screening at SXSW where it will close the festival, Daniel Minahan’s 1950s-set romantic drama On Swift Horses is making its way to U.S. theaters. Adapted by Bryce Kass from Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 […]

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Brazilian-American filmmaker Bernardo Britto, known for his innovative animated shorts, makes his feature directorial debut with Omni Loop. This sci-fi comedy, starring Ayo Edebiri and Mary-Louise Parker, made its world premiere at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival. Britto, whose previous […]

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Indie icon Crystal Moselle (Stake Kitchen; The Wolfpack) is once again blurring the line between fiction and documentary. She teams up with actor/rapper Derrick B. Harden to co-direct The Black Sea, a new cinema verité-like feature about a life turned […]

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After surviving a blood-soaked wedding in 2019’s Ready or Not, Samara Weaving now has to survive a merciless wilderness in Azrael. E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills) directs the post-apocalyptic from a script by Simon Barrett (You’re Next; The Guest) which took […]

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Documentary filmmaking duo Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross know how to capture up close and personal the lives of youth in modern rural America. Following a fruitful festival run that took them from Venice to SXSW to the brand […]

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Writer/director Iram Parveen Bilal follows up her engaging 2020 I’ll Meet You There with Wakhri, which just played SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it). Inspired by the life of the late Pakistani social-media influencer Qandeel Baloch, this aesthetically assured and […]

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Set in Austin, Texas—the location of its world premiere, at SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it)—the documentary An Army of Women explores how the local police department and district attorney have failed to prosecute perpetrators of sexual assault and rape […]

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(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival hosted nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Chris Reed’s The Queen of My Dreams movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Director Fawzia Mirza […]

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In the halcyon past of 1954, from the bucolic landscapes of New Zealand, We Were Dangerous opens with the daring escape bid of two Maori girls – Nellie (Erana James) and Daisy (Manaia Hall) – from a school catering to wayward souls. Their flight foiled, the girls […]

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