New Documentaries: Lynyrd Skynrd, Bill Murray, more from SxSW 2018
New Documentaries: Lynyrd Skynrd, Bill Murray, more from SxSW 2018 5 fresh documentaries to troll Netflix or your local indie movie theater for While the narrative features screened at SXSW face an uncertain future, the prospects are much brighter for the...
SxSW Films 2017: Five Pairs Face Off
SxSW Films 2017: Five Pairs Face Off Pairs of Fresh Rockumentaries, Documentaries, Film Noir, Women's Stories, and films about Aging Hollywood Icons face off in our SxSW movie roundup. Standing in line for my final screening of SXSW’s 2017 film program, it occurred to...
Best of the Fest: 5 Fab Films from SXSW 2016
Best of the Fest: 5 Fab Films from SXSW 2016 Richard Linklater's "spiritual sequel" to Dazed and Confused, the friendship behind Smokey and the Bandit, & a school shootings doc make our list! Have you read our SXSW Rockumentary Roundup? Of course you have! But as...
Best of SXSW: Five Fantastic Rockumentaries for 2016
Best of SXSW: Five Fantastic Rockumentaries for 2016 Foxy new features about Sharon Jones, Gary Numan, roadies, Austin City Limits and The Broken Spoke all make our cut for the best rockumentaries at SxSW! Given its roots as a music festival, SXSW is always going to...
The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead: video Q&A with Wes Orshoski & Captain Sensible
The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead: video Q&A with Wes Orshoski & Captain Sensible Straight from the film's SxSW premiere, a Q&A with the forces behind the new Damned rockumentary. 5 years after co-Directing “Lemmy: the Movie,” an...
Top Five Documentaries from SXSW 2015
Top Five Documentaries from SXSW 2015 A recent Variety article made the dubious claim that the success of HBO’s The Jinx, the six-part miniseries about accused multiple-murderer Robert Durst, will usher in a golden age of documentaries. Anyone who has attended SXSW...
The Five Kinds of Rock Movie You Find at SXSW
The Five Kinds of Rock Movie You Find at SXSW With all due respect to the ever-expanding Interactive aspect of SXSW (as well as upstart offshoots like SXSports), it’s the Music and Film Conferences that remain the heart of the 10-day festival. With all due respect to...
The Gambler: 3 Great Gambling Films to Warm Up With
The Gambler: 3 Great Gambling Films to Warm Up With At the end of 2014, Mark Wahlberg starred in a remake of the 1974 film The Gambler which was released to mediocre reviews. Quoted at Rotten Tomatoes, reviewer David Kaplan went so far as to call the...Review: Life on the V: The Story of V66
Review: Life on the V: The Story of V66 Thanks to the Baby Boomers’ endless nostalgia for their lost youth, the ’50s, ‘60s and ‘70s never really faded away. From Mad Men to the latest Beatles-related reissue/interview/documentary, the sights and sounds...Fest Best: 5 Favorite Films from South by Southwest
Fest Best: 5 Favorite Films from South by Southwest It’s always hard to tell whether a given festival has had a down year based on the sliver of available films one manages to cram into a viewing schedule. It’s true that this year’s headliners were less than inspired:..."Good Ol’ Freda"
"Good Ol’ Freda" At this late date, you might think it impossible for anyone to find a fresh angle on the Beatles’ story, but director Ryan White has done just that with the new documentary Good Ol’ Freda. The title refers to Freda Kelly, who served as the...
