It’s always great when you get a day of SXSW where everything basically goes right. Despite daylight savings time interfering with a decent amount of sleep, day three of SXSW was unquestionably the best day of the festival so far. Two of the picks Kayleigh and I made in our preview guide surpassed even our high […]
SXSW Film 2016 Day 2: The Dwarvenaut and Baby Bump
Fuck whoever decided daylight savings time should fall in the middle of SXSW. Or maybe just fuck daylight savings time in general. Either way, there’s nothing quite like going out after a day of watching films in the darkness and then stumbling home and watching the clock tick forth an hour, mocking you. It’s early […]
SXSW Film 2016 Day 1 Pt. 2- Cameraperson and Beware the Slenderman
As we all know, jumping into the Interactive portion of SXSW is the best possible way to get your festival bearings because, for a myriad of reasons, pretty much every official and unofficial event of Interactive is low-risk, high-reward. It doesn’t have the public caché of Music but it’s also way more social (interactive?) than […]
SXSW Film 2016: Day 1- Silicon Cowboys and Beware the Slenderman
The first day of SXSW is always pretty slack but this year’s festivities felt unusually quiet. Part of that was likely due to the weather, which fortunately shifted away from the monsoon that preceded SXSW and merely became “Seattle in the spring” greyness. But the fact that Obama was the keynote speaker this year and […]
Top 10 Films to Catch at SXSW 2016
Loser City continues its tradition of gonzo SXSW reporting with a preview of our most anticipated films at this year’s SXSW Film festival. The selections run the gamut from magical realist Polish films to documentaries on tech pirates and KKK-befriending black musicians. In a Valley of Violence What It Is: Minimalist horror auteur Ti West […]
Good Bad Guys: What Marvel’s Villain Problem Reveals About the MCU
“When was a kid, I wanted to be a Batman villain when I grew up.” – Jello Biafra By now you’ve probably heard about Marvel’s villain problem. After 12 movies and counting, Marvel studios has, despite its outrageous critical and commercial success, been pilloried across the internet for its perceived failure to establish more than […]
In Memory of David Bowie: 7 Artists Who Made Great Art in Their Final Days
Just over a week ago, we were celebrating the arrival of new David Bowie album Blackstar (on his birthday no less) and its accompanying music videos. Now, Bowie is no longer with us, having passed away on January 10, 2015. To the public, his death came as a devastating shock, as Bowie and those close […]
Indigenous is an Unnaturally Stupid Movie
Generally my horror movie philosophy is pretty similar to David Lynch’s views on coffee: even a bad horror film is better than no horror films at all. But the Panamian tourism bureau horror fim Indigenous really tests my faith in that sentiment. A movie about dumb, pretty white people stomping through Central America, where terms like […]
Punching Through Daddy Issues: Patriarchal Legacies in Creed and Rocky V
Creed rocked my nuts off. It was exciting, it was charming, it had the best onscreen romance I’ve seen in recent memory and one of the best performances of Sylvester Stallone’s entire career. It was everything that the Rocky movies were always supposed to be, now with 85% less Rocky. I’m certain that there will […]
The Leisure Class is a Slog of a Film
The Leisure Class is many things, but never once a coherent or good film. Jason Mann’s HBO feature is a tonal and narrative mess, one that does a disservice to talented pieces to produce a cringe-worthy whole. It is a shining example that no matter how strong a cast and crew are, without a solid script, […]
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