It’s Christmas in July. After numerous years of collaborating with his brother Mark and rising as an actor, Jay Duplass has made his solo directing debut with a comedy set in Baltimore on Christmas Eve. The Baltimorons stars Michael Strassner […]

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Belgian director Leni Huyghe just premiered her debut feature, Real Faces, at SXSW 2025 (where I reviewed it). The film follows its two protagonists, Julia (Leonie Buysse) and Eliot (Gorges Ocloo), as they separately and together navigate conflicts on their […]

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Though we will for once not have boots on the ground for SXSW 2025, that doesn’t mean we aren’t thinking about the festival in this 31st iteration of its Film & TV conference, which runs March 7-15. As always, SXSW […]

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The first round of the lineup for the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally here! The festival is scheduled to run in Austin, Texas from March 7 through 14. It will have 96 features in total, including 82 […]

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