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Fantastic Fest Review: Smile

The premise of Smile is one that comes with baggage at this point in the modern horror cycle. This story about therapist Rose (Sosie Bacon) being cursed by an entity that wields the smiling faces of those familiar to the accursed is yet another trauma-horror allegory, a metaphor that has become so overused it’s begun to become a bit of a joke.

12:00PM Mon. Sep. 26, 2022, Trace Sauveur Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Oink

The 21-and-up Fantastic Fest is no place for children. Slasher gore aside, its films are replete with drugs, bawdy (and body) humor, more genitalia than an HBO pilot, and enough clever adult language to school a sailor. And then there’s Oink.

11:30AM Mon. Sep. 26, 2022, Jasmine Lane Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Vesper

In the future of Vesper, much like our own present, there is the edible and inedible. The control of that which is edible is the ultimate source of power, and the ability to let the nature grow freely is the ultimate act of rebellion.

10:42AM Mon. Sep. 26, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Linda Lindas, Ghost Wolves [outside]

Mohawk

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at Long Center for the Performing Arts

KUTX 10th birthday concert series w/ Why Bonnie, Sun June, Redbud at Antone's Nightclub

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Fantastic Fest Review: Lynch/Oz

Alexandre O. Philippe has said that he doesn't make documentaries: He makes films about filmmakers. That may seem like splitting hairs, but his works are little to do with chronological recountings. Rather, they serve as academic discussions of a movie or moviemaker.

10:30AM Mon. Sep. 26, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Terrifier 2

Gore hounds’ favorite sadistic serial killing clown Art (David Howard Thornton) is back six years after creator/director Damien Leone’s initial franchise starter for his original, bloodthirsty killing machine, and this time there’s truly no stopping him.

1:00PM Fri. Sep. 23, 2022, Trace Sauveur Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: A Wounded Fawn

In his feature directorial debut, The Girl on the Third Floor, Travis Stevens depicted a man who's not as decent as he thinks he is. In his second, Jakob's Wife, men think they can simply dominate inner urges. In his third, A Wounded Fawn, Stevens finds a villain who embraces his monstrous aspects - to strangely slapstick effect.

12:30PM Fri. Sep. 23, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Interview: Jason Eisener on Kids vs. Aliens

There's a Venn diagram: the circles say, "weird gore," "wrestling," and "kids," and at the center is Jason Eisener. "I love that," the director of Fantastic Fest selection Kids vs. Aliens said. "There's a lot of me that goes into this movie."

1:00AM Thu. Sep. 22, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

The Ritual of Itchy-O

There are no members of itchy-O. There is only itchy-O. There is no leader of itchy-O. There is only itchy-O. Denver’s 57-strongmasked nightmare front line electro taiko mariachi neo-tribal collective does not perform music, it creates ritual.

8:00AM Mon. Sep. 19, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Society Announces 2022 Filmmaker Grant Recipients

For over two and a half decades, the AFS Filmmaker Grants having been changing careers and lives by giving essential funding to projects around Texas. Now the latest list of recipients has been announced by the Austin Film Society.

9:00PM Fri. Sep. 9, 2022, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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