It was a whirlwind of a film festival. I’m talking about the 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival that I was super lucky to attend July 30 through August 3. The fest itself ran July 31-August 2 but, I like to […]

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The SXSW Festival has unveiled its second wave of film and TV premieres for its 2023 edition, including its Visions, Global (presented by MUBI), 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites sections. The festival will take place in Austin, TX from March […]

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Yes, Nothing Stays the Same: the Story of the Saxon Pub is very much a love-letter to the Saxon Pub and, as such, often comes off like a Saxon Pub infomercial. Yet within this slick, loving doc lie a million little stories whose parts equal a greater whole.

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Although the U.S. leadership purports to be good Christians, they have no desire to assist those who need help. True Christians – heck, any decent human being – wouldn’t turn these people away from the border.

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Western is cinematic nonfiction of a superior order.

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If Andrew Bujalski’s first two films were focused on characters staring into the precipice of adulthood (a metaphor that Garden State made all too literal), then the denizens of Beeswax are inside the sinkhole staring back.

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In KID-THING, the Zellner Bros.’ second feature film, Annie, the titular character, is in every way on her own, roaming the fields and alleyways of rural Texas with paintball gun and aluminum bat in hand, destroying all she comes across.

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Prince Avalanche is never one thing; it’s everything at once.

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