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Dispatches from Loser City: Exploding Dickheads and Other Mutations

March 26, 2025 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

A peeling sticker of a face?

In the bleak, jagged dysfunction of our modern era it feels like things slip through the cracks of my mind almost immediately after experiencing them so here I am, attempting a running public journal for myself– a “live” journal, if you will. Maybe some of this will turn into longer form writing but I mainly […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Aaron Cometbus, Big Girl, Crucifucks, Doc Dart, Hardcore punk, Hex Dispensers, Indie, mclusky, Sam McPheeters, Sweeping Promises, SXSW

Jack Goes Home is a Thrilling Work by a Bold New Director

October 13, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Jack Goes Home Rory Culkin

Thomas Dekker’s impressive psychological thriller Jack Goes Home is the latest in a new wave of American horror films that get much of their tension from questioning the reliability of their protagonist’s view. Like Jacob’s Ladder before it, Jack Goes Home is an exploration of trauma that utilizes horror tropes and imagery to bring viewers closer to its protagonist’s headspace. But Jack […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Britt Robertson, Film, horror, Jack Goes Home, Lin Shaye, Rory Culkin, SXSW, Thomas Dekker

The Invitation is a Horror Work That Lingers Long After Seeing It

April 8, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

The Invitation

Often, the best thing you can say about a horror film is that it lingered, refusing to leave your brain after you saw it, maybe popping up in the background of your vision as you’re out at night, perhaps framing your dreams for the next little while. Even bad horror can provide an immediate visceral […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Film, horror, Karyn Kusama, SXSW, The Invitation, thriller

SXSW Film 2016 Day Four: Preacher, Death by Audio and Jack Goes Home

March 15, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Jack Goes Home Rory Culkin

SXSW generally has a great slate of TV premieres but most of the shows they lined up this year didn’t stir my interest one way or another. The big exception was Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s adaptation of Preacher, set to air on AMC this summer, which I was interested in not because I thought it would be […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: AMC, Death by Audio, Dominic Cooper, Evan Goldberg, Film, Garth Ennis, Goodnight Brooklyn, horror, Jack Goes Home, Preacher, Ruth Negga, Seth Rogen, Steve Dillon, SXSW, Thomas Dekker

SXSW Film 2016 Day 3 Part 2- Accidental Courtesy and Don’t Think Twice

March 14, 2016 By Kayleigh Hughes Leave a Comment

Don't Think Twice, Mike Birbiglia, Gillian Jacobs, SXSW, film

Movies are the best, you guys. Sunday was the strongest set of films we’ve seen at the festival so far, and the two we caught, documentary Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America and Mike Birbiglia’s feature Don’t Think Twice, provided excellent tonal and thematic variety. After seeing a handful of okay-but-not-life-changing documentaries, I went […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Accidental Courtesy, Chris Gethard, Daryl Davis, documentary, Don't Think Twice, Film, Gillian Jacobs, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Birbiglia, SXSW

SXSW Film 2016 Day 3 Part 1- Accidental Courtesy and Don’t Think Twice

March 14, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Accidental Courtesy Daryl Davis

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Accidental Courtesy, Black Lives Matter, Chris Gethard, Daryl Davis, documentary, Film, Gillian Jacobs, JC Faulk, Kate Micucci, Keegan-Michael Key, Kwame Rose, Matt Ornstein, Mike Birbiglia, SXSW, Tami Sagher, Tariq Nasheed

SXSW Film 2016 Day 2: The Dwarvenaut and Baby Bump

March 13, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

The Dwarvenaut

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Baby Bump, Dungeons and Dragons, Film, Kuba Czekaj, Poland, Stefan Pokorsky, SXSW, The Dwarvenaut

SXSW Film 2016 Day 1 Pt. 2- Cameraperson and Beware the Slenderman

March 12, 2016 By Kayleigh Hughes Leave a Comment

Cameraperson

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Beware the Slenderman, Cameraperson, Film, SXSW

SXSW Film 2016: Day 1- Silicon Cowboys and Beware the Slenderman

March 12, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Beware the Slenderman HBO

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Beware the Slenderman, documentary, Film, Silicon Cowboys, SXSW

Top 10 Films to Catch at SXSW 2016

March 11, 2016 By Kayleigh Hughes Leave a Comment

Don't Think Twice, Mike Birbiglia, Gillian Jacobs, SXSW, film

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Accidental Courtesy, Art of Organized Noize, Babak Anvari, Baby Bump, Compaq, Daryl Davis, Death by Audio, documentary, Don't Think Twice, Ethan Hawke, Film, Future Islands, Gillian Jacobs, Goodnight Brooklyn, horror, IBM, In a Valley of Violence, Iran, Jack Goes Home, Keegan-Michael Key, Ludacris, Mike Birbiglia, Organized Noize, Outkast, Rory Culkin, Silicon Cowboys, SXSW, Thee Oh Sees, Ti West, Tower, Ty Segall, Under the Shadow, Vice

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