SxSW 2023 Reactions

As part of the Narrative Competition at SxSW this year, PURE O is having one final screening at SxSW and if you are town, it’s really worth checking out. ABOUT: Cooper Ganz’s seemingly perfect life quickly unravels when he is diagnosed with a crippling form of OCD called Pure Obsessional. This often misunderstood illness forces […]

One of the gala screenings at the heavenly Paramount Theatre this year, the documentary GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI has had strong reactions from everyone we have met at SxSW has seen it. ABOUT: In the competitive world of high school mariachi, the musicians from the South Texas borderlands reign supreme. Under the guidance of Coach […]

This reaction is one that means a lot to me, as it comes from quite a few talents that I have known over the years including producer Aaron B. Koontz from Austin along with Midnight Madness at Toronto International Film Festival’s very own Peter Kuplowsky. As soon as I heard these names had a movie […]

Canada represent! Filmmaker Matt Johnson is no stranger to SxSW and Austin’s Fantastic Fest where I have met him many times (and he also has one of the best acting-is-reacting faces in recent memory) with THE DIRTIES at Fantastic Fest along with OPERATION AVALANCHE at SxSW a few years ago. I was honored to be […]

One of the big screenings this year was Austin’s own Robert Rodriguez celebrating the 30th anniversary of his first movie, EL MARIACHI, with a work in progress screening of his latest picture HYPNOTIC. Note that this is touted as a work-in-progress, but in this movie buff’s opinion this seemed pretty final except for possibly a […]

Creating quite the stir around SxSW this year with a LOT of good reactions from people we have spoken to in lines and in seats waiting for shows to start, our Anna Hanks gives us a reaction for SATAN WANTS YOU from SxSW Film & TV this year. ABOUT: Satan Wants You tells the untold […]

That Rachel Sennott is so hot at SxSW right now! One of the breakout stars of the festival this year, Rachel was in two movies at the festival including BOTTOMS (a reaction is coming soon to this site) along with this Canadian feature I USED TO BE FUNNY filmed in and around the Toronto area. […]

Both Antonio and I saw the World Premiere of Searchlight Pictures’ FLAMIN HOT yesterday at SxSW Film & TV with filmmaker Eva Longoria and the entire cast & crew! Check out our reaction below. ABOUT: “Flamin’ Hot” is the story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing […]

Both Antonio and myself were in attendance at the legendary Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar location, a cinema that has left a BIG impact on my life as not only the home to many SxSW and Fantastic Fests but also a world class cinema with top notch projection and sound AND a terrific food menu of […]

The opening night of SxSW was the World Premiere of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS – HONOR AMONG THEIVES and both Antonio and myself were there! It was exciting to see a big new movie in a theatre with over 1100 people, with Antonio near the front and yours truly sitting in the balcony towards the top, […]