Welcome to our second day of SXSW coverage (catch up on it all here). Not too surprisingly, my super ambitious plan to help run a music showcase and hop over to a screening or three on day two of SXSW did not pan out. That’s okay, though, because in my experience festivals are more enjoyable […]
SXSW Film: 7 Days in Hell and The Invitation
SXSW Film may not loom as large in the public imagination as Sundance or TIFF, but it’s a film festival that grows each year and requires more traveling than its more condensed kin, which is why I always try to start small and pace myself at SXSW. I continued that tradition this year as I […]
Top 10 Films to Catch at SXSW
The SXSW Film Festival remains one of the most underrated film festivals in the US, with a wide number of interesting and intriguing films to choose from each year. We’ve decided to help you figure out what to catch from the festival (or after, if you aren’t making it down to Austin) with our selections […]
An Experiment in Expansion: Before I Disappear Overcomes Flaws to Showcase Talents
Adaptations are a hot commodity. It’s rare these days for any film to get made that isn’t a sequel, prequel, threequel, spinoff, book or dreaded video game adaptation. This has brought us the rise and box office domination of such entities as the Marvel universe, but also created a vacuum of original creative ideas. Two […]
Terrible People, Good Comedy: Womance Wins in Fort Tilden
Everyone loves an underdog, but we also kind of love an asshole. Gone are the days of the boy scout action hero or the drama of our straight laced do-gooding protagonist. Instead an age has arisen of complex and frankly, pretty awful characters populating film and screen, characters we root for and are deeply invested in […]
View Finder: Photographer Nathan Mitchell
View Finder is a series in which we talk to artists about how they got started, what their experiences in their field have been like and get some stories behind some of their works. Up first is Nathan Mitchell, a professional photographer who first caught our eye with his excellent series of shots from his trip […]
SXSW Review: SVDDXNLY
The Loser City team caught a lot of stuff at SXSW this year, including a mutant strain of bird flu courtesy of a rogue pack of grackles. So we’ll be rolling out select individual film reviews for a while, starting with this look at the disappointing vanity doc, SVDDXNLY. A$AP Rocky is a New York rapper […]