SxSW 2024 Reactions

Editor’s note: This reaction is in addition to Jason’s reaction to the excellent documentary MOVIEPASS, MOVIECRASH which you can read HERE. Since Antonio’s reaction is a much more personal and as someone who had a MoviePass subscription (this was never available in Canada), we wanted to feature it in an individual article. Remember that short […]

It was a glorious final night at the South By Southwest Film & TV Festival, and the team closed out with another Amazon/MGM release with THE IDEA OF YOU from filmmaker Michael Showalter, no stranger to SxSW with his previous movies HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS and THE BIG SICK both having very memorable screenings […]

Any GTA V fans out there? If so, you might want to keep an eye out for this documentary that I never thought I would see in a long time, and is required viewing for all fans of the theatre. ABOUT: January 2021. The UK is in its 3rd lockdown and all entertainment venues remain […]

ABOUT: When estranged siblings, Joseph and Sidney, rendezvous at a local diner after a close-call robbery, they hightail it to an abandoned farmhouse that transports them to a different time in order to escape the local cops. But when they try to return to their present after the coast is clear, an unknown metaphysical force […]

We saw so many documentaries at South By Southwest Film & TV Festival this year, but MOVIEPASS, MOVIECRASH was one of the very best, and brought a lot of discussion with festivalgoers absolutely missing the movie subscription. MoviePass never made its way to Canada, unfortunately, and this documentary more than wonderfully covers the subject. About: […]

SEW TORN was pretty quickly on my list of movies to see when making my schedule at this year’s South By Southwest Film & TV. It was nearly an 11pm screening at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar location. There is also a home city connection here with the movie! Actor Calum Worthy (BODIED) is from […]

Another high-profile documentary to play South By Southwest Film & TV Festival this year is the Netflix title THE ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK, which had a lot of varying reactions at SxSW this year depending on who you talked to. About: The filmmakers behind cult hit “Feels Good Man” elaborate on their Emmy and Sundance winning film […]

Another great documentary out of South By Southwest this year was SONGS FROM THE HOLE which premiered to capacity crowds at all of its screenings. I really wish I could have met filmmaker Contessa Gayle to give her my congratulations on such an experience! About: At 15, he took a life. Three days later, his […]

The second to last of the big Headliner titles at South By Southwest this year, there was an incredible sea of excitement in the air for Alex Garland’s latest picture CIVIL WAR. With lines starting nearly six hours before the screening, there were thousands of SxSW badgeholders dying to see the latest work from Garland […]

It’s always a joy to see a documentary at any festival about the fan community and what makes them tick. THE HOBBY screened at this year’s South By Southwest Film & TV Festival and what excited me the most is that it’s a Canadian produced documentary. I travelled all the way down from Canada to […]

Another documentary from this year’s South By Southwest that had people really talking was the Canadian doc PLASTIC PEOPLE. Both Antonio and myself got to see it (myself ahead of the festival and Antonio went to a screening) and I also had many fest-goers recommend it after seeing the shows while in Austin. About: Are […]

One documentary that had a LOT of talk at South By Southwest this week, and for good reason, is the AMC+/Sundance doc DICKWEED, which its title alone attracted quite a bit of attention. The movie had three screenings at SxSW and the filmmakers were in attendance, and sadly I didn’t get to meet them (but […]

All the way back in 2019, which feels like an eternity ago, I stumbled across an indie gem masterpiece called SAINT FRANCES on the very last night of SxSW. It had won several awards and had praise from anyone who had seen it, so I was pretty stoked to see it. The movie exceeded my […]

A few nights ago, I felt the roof blew off the Paramount Theatre in Austin with the release of Dev Patel’s MONKEY MAN. That was just a warm-up for Tuesday night’s screening of THE FALL GUY, the much anticipated new action picture from director David Leitch, who I met here in Austin many years ago […]

The roof pretty much blew off the top of the Paramount Theatre in Austin last night at the World Premiere of MONKEY MAN, the much anticipated new actioner and directorial debut by none other than Dev Patel, a man who I think is loved by every single human on earth. Yours truly was seeing Mr. […]