South By Southwest is always home to a couple of tense, upsetting and even some films that test us with its running time. However, in a festival of such films, it is nice to see a brisk 79 minute comedy featuring two lovely actors to balance everything out, like UNLOVABLE. The film follows Joy (Charlotte […]
SxSW 2018
SXSW 2018 Review: ALL SQUARE
ALL SQUARE was my final screening of SxSW and I decided to see it after discovering it won the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award. By this point in time I was tired, disoriented, and a little confused about where I exactly was. Although I was in a very unfit state to watch a film, ALL SQUARE […]
Breaking Down The 2018 Edition of South By Southwest Film Festival
By Jason Whyte, Managing Editor With contributions from Kielan Ellis, Daniel Azbel & Ben Scanga 2018 marked my 11th year at the South By Southwest Conference & Festivals and my first covering as Managing Editor for GetReelMovies.com. To say this was a fun year in Austin is a massive understatement; every day brought great […]
SXSW 2018 Review: Heavy Trip
Heavy Trip makes it blatantly obvious that first-time directing-duo Juuso Laatio and Jukkaa Vidgren aren’t attempting to make the next Godfather (or anything that’s even remotely tasteful) but the two are self-aware that they aren’t. In fact, that’s where the majority of the film’s grossly likable nature comes from; humor involving vomit, stereotyping, bullying and all things related to the film’s […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: Meet the team behind THE POTENTIAL OF NOISE – CONNY PLANK!
“The idea to make a documentary about Conny emerged while I was clearing out the recording studio after the death of my mother. It occurred to me that I knew my father but I could not understand the producer Conny Plank. So I started a research project into the work of my father. And wow […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: Meet the team from HEAVY TRIP!
“This is an anarchic comedy on a Finnish heavy rock band on their way to a Norwegian metal festival. The lead singer Turo, 25, tries to overcome his fears by leading his band, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival of Norway. Their journey includes metal music, vomiting, grave robbings, fake vikings and the first […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: JINN director Nilja Mu’min
“Jinn is a coming of age film about a teenage dancer named Summer whose world is shaken when her mother, Jade, converts to Islam. At first resistant to the faith, she becomes drawn to some of it teachings, and experiences deep feelings for a Muslim classmate, Tahir, crossing the thin line between desire and piety.” […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF DESIRE director Hao Wu
“People’s Republic of Desire tells a real-life Black-Mirror-like story, in which technology gives young people otherwise of no future prospect a chance at fame and fortune, but also destroys their personal happiness in the process. The story is set in China, where internet adoption among the youths has arguably leaped ahead of the US, and […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY director Steve Sullivan
“Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story is a documentary about the maverick Manchester comedian and showbiz superstar in the papier-mâché head, Frank Sidebottom and the real life of his creator, the mysterious and rarely seen artist and singer/songwriter Chris Sievey. It’s a very strange, hilarious and moving tale and it’s all true. You couldn’t […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: ALL SQUARE producer Jordan Foley
“ALL SQUARE is about a down-on-his-luck bookie from a blue collar town who befriends an ex-girlfriend’s kid. The kid invites him to his local ball game, and that’s where our hero gets the bright idea to start taking bets on youth league baseball games. Everything is going well for him until degenerate gamblers start […]