SUBTOPIA: The Story of Hueco Canyon
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Well done! An indie movie with excellent production values, emulating documentary formats (interviews and reenactments). The festival director said when she started…
Time Travel Is Dangerous
| B | Austin Film Festival 2024 | What an odd little film. From the trailer, I'd expected a very indie film. But I recognized several of the actors and…
Raging Midlife
| C+ | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Compared to Operation Taco Gary’s, this was "a dumb comedy made by average people." Absurd but somewhat amusing, with some funny bits…
Operation Taco Gary’s
| A | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Here’s the easy part: This movie was hilarious! The hard part is describing any of it. Goofy? Absurd? Borderline surreal? A little…
I Hate Myself And Want To Die
| B | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Yes, a comedy about someone trying to commit suicide. Both funny and heartwarming. The situations were very amusing. The comic relief character…
Party People
| C+ | Austin Film Festival 2024 | This movie just didn’t grab me. For the most part, there was nothing to make me care about a bunch of college…
Frankie Freako
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2024 | Goofy throwback to the 80s puppet-creature features (Gremlins, etc.). Good period-style special effects. Wacky movie logic that doesn't make much sense. Bizarre fun.…
The Birthday
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | This was another movie I had to think through to decide if I liked it or not… Corey Feldman did a fine job…
A Different Man
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2024 | The deepest film I’ve seen so far at the festival. This movie was partially about perceptions, but more I think about the choices…
Heads or Fails
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | What a strange but amusing film. The main character was basically a very small-time scam artist. She was doing so to "survive," although…