Is There Anybody Out There?
SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Is There Anybody Out There? is writer-director Ella Glendining’s cinematic journal of her life. Born without hips, a medical disability initialed PFFD (Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency), Glendining is looking to see if there’s anyone who is…
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Megan Stalter Tries to Win Her Girlfriend Back
The SXSW film festival has kind of harnessed a reputation of being the “cool” festival. Taking place in Austin, Texas, a city that’s also earned its respected status in the entertainment industry, it includes comedy, music, and since 1994, film…
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Action Cinema At Its Finest, The Franchise Reaches A New High
From the first frame, “John Wick: Chapter 4” punches so hard you feel it. Keanu Reeves returns as the titular character who is trying to earn his freedom. In order to do that, he has to defeat the High Table, who…
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Late Night with the Devil
SXSW 2023 REVIEW! A struggling late-next talk-show host goes to drastic measures for ratings in Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ horror feature, Late Night with the Devil. It’s October 31, 1977, and Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) is a syndicated talk show host…
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Dennis Quaid & Jay Hernandez Miss the Mark
When it comes to inspiring stories, nothing really tops an underdog sports narrative. The plucky team with aspirations for greatness. The odds are always stacked against them, but with one determined coach and a pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps mentality, the team is able…
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A Look at When Star Wars Was Weird
Star Wars has made some wild choices in its nearly 50 years of its existence: Jar-Jar Binks, having a brother and sister kiss, the entirety of The Rise of Skywalker. But there might not be any weirder period of Star…
Read more![Pavement’s Former Drummer, Gary Young, Gets His Filthy and Delightfully Quirky Day in the Sun [SXSW]](https://www.filmibee.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Gary-drumming_A013C749.jpg)
Pavement’s Former Drummer, Gary Young, Gets His Filthy and Delightfully Quirky Day in the Sun [SXSW]
“I took LSD 375 times.” These are the first words said in “Louder than You Think” by subject Gary Young — drummer, producer, drunkard, and all-around enigma, likely best known as being the original drummer for the lo-fi 90’s alternative…
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The Arc of Oblivion | Film Threat
SXSW 2023 FILM REVIEW! For Mother’s Day one year, I secretly took all the photos and videos my wife had stored of our children on her iPhone and created a video called “A Mother’s Phone.” Director Ian Cheney goes to…
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A Funny and Heartfelt Sci-Fi Rom-Com
If You Were the Last opens with its two main characters, Zoe Chao's Jane and Anthony Mackie's Adam, playing chess in a retro-stylized living room while they debate the plausibility of Matt Damon's 2015 smash-hit The Martian. Would the U.S.…
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Brittany Snow’s Directorial Debut is Honest
For years, Hollywood has had issues with addressing eating disorders. Countless movies and shows have either sugarcoated it such as the controversial Netflix film To The Bone starring Lily Collins, or even worse, made a joke out of it, acting…
Read more![Robert Rodriguez & Ben Affleck Team For An ‘Inception’-Ish Nolan-Like Thriller [SXSW]](https://www.filmibee.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ben-affleck-hypnotic-robert-rodriguez.jpg)
Robert Rodriguez & Ben Affleck Team For An ‘Inception’-Ish Nolan-Like Thriller [SXSW]
It’s funny to look back and remember that when they first broke out in the early 1990s, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were seen as not just contemporaries but equals, redefining genre cinema for the indie set and rewriting the…
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Scream VI | Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! “What’s your favorite scary movie?” The original Scream has it all. Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson included elements of horror, humor, mystery, and romance. The film also featured inventive kills, memorable characters, twists/turns, and, my favorite, meta pop culture…
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