(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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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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“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom.” You wouldn’t think at first such a patriotic quote would apply to a scrappy rap trio from Belfast, but that’s one of many surprises of Kneecap – the […]

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If Beale Street Could Talk star KiKi Layne displays her musical chops in the new drama, Dandelion. Written and directed by Nicole Riegel (2021’s Hollar), it centers on a struggling singer-songwriter in the Midwest who goes on the road toward […]

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Five years after their charming comedy Saint Frances, Chicago-based filmmaking duo Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson reunite for a soulful tragicomedy with just as much heart. Ghostlight, which the pair co-directed, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival […]

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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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(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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