Earlier this year when I caught Hot Sugar’s Cold World at SXSW, the kids I was sitting next to leaned over and asked if I was a fan of the indie producer. “I actually don’t know much about him, I just had a gap in my schedule,” I told them. “OH MY GOD! He’s a genius! […]
Turbo Kid is a Post-Apocalyptic Splatterfest with a Whole Lot of Heart
The mood of the moment is dour post-apocalypses, hopeless expanses of disrupted civilization and bleak sand and rock backdrops. This isn’t escape fiction, it’s a blunt reminder of what we’re pretty clearly heading towards if we keep up our bad habits. But genres need room to breathe otherwise they shrivel and die. Montreal special effects […]
The Best (and Worst) of Youth: SXSW Shorts Edition
Each year, SXSW Film gives press in attendance access to their screeners library, where filmmakers are able to upload their films so you can catch their work even if you missed it at the festival. The library is usually full of the short films from the festival and this year was no exception so we’ve […]
SXSW Film: Welcome to Leith, Excess Flesh, and Uncle John
We have lost track of the days Morgan has been at SXSW… it’s all a blur… but you can catch up on it all here. Rain is more or less a certainty at SXSW. In my experience, it has come at the start of the event, but this year, these last few days of the […]
Getting My Butt Kicked at the SXSW Gaming Expo
“I’m curious: Has anyone beaten this demo?” The man I’m speaking to, a developer on Jotun whose name I didn’t catch (most of the exhibitors at SXSW Gaming Expo have “exhibitor” slips obtrusively in the front of their badges), but who I suspect is William Dubé, the game’s creator, chuckles and says, that, yes, three […]
SXSW Film: Danny Says, We Like It Like That, and Hangman
Welcome to our sixth day of SXSW coverage (catch up on it all here). SXSW has felt off this year, like a party that has gone on too long and now everyone is awkwardly trying to exit quietly before anyone notices. The film portion of SXSW has been consistent if not as strong as some prior […]
SXSW Film: 2015 Jury Award Winners
Morgan Davis has been covering a ton of the films at SXSW 2015 (catch up on it all here), but we would be remiss if we didn’t cover SXSW Film’s 2015 Jury Award Winners Films at SXSW 2015 receiving Jury Awards were selected from the Documentary Feature Competition and Narrative Feature categories (Audience Awards will […]
SXSW Film: All Things Must Pass, A Wonderful Cloud, and Turbo Kid
Welcome to our fifth day of SXSW coverage (catch up on it all here). There was pretty much no rhyme or reason to my schedule on day five of SXSW. I planned on catching All Things Must Pass, a documentary by Colin Hanks on the rise and fall of Tower Records, at the start of the […]
SXSW Film: The Visit, They Will Have to Kill Us First, and Hot Sugar’s Cold World
Welcome to our fourth day of SXSW coverage (catch up on it all here). For whatever reason, day four of SXSW wound up being documentary day. I saw three documentaries that were wildly different in concept and style but nonetheless shared a bad habit of digression and self-indulgence, albeit to different degrees. The Visit, a documentary […]
SXSW Film: Deep Web, The Frontier, and The Corpse of Anna Fritz
Welcome to our third day of SXSW coverage (catch up on it all here). Though I got a bit of a late start on day three of SXSW, I still managed to work in three films, all of which were kind of horrifying and unsettling for vastly different reasons. Alex Winter’s Deep Web raised the […]