Blow Up My Life
| C+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | I knew we were in trouble about three minutes in. The movie starts with the main character in a graveyard (during the…
Quicksand
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2022 | There were some funny things in this movie, though more of them appeared in the end than the beginning. If more of…
Daniel’s Gotta Die
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | Funny. Definitely a dark comedy, but I love those. This is one of those movies where most of the characters are scheming…
Beauty Of A Blank Space
| B | Austin Film Festival 2022 | An endearing road trip movie where the two main characters find themselves along the way. The type of indie film I’m always…
The Bystanders
| B | Austin Film Festival 2022 | An amusing movie about our guardian angels, with the tag line "They watch over us but they can't stand us." Occasionally laugh-out-loud,…
Magic Spot
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | There's a group of folks (a troupe, perhaps) that call themselves Motern Media. Magic Spot was my first experience with them even though…
Sick Of Myself
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2022 | A marvelous black comedy! The tone was perfect. Such awful things were happening and I was laughing the whole way through it. It's…
The Visitor From The Future
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2022 | Very funny! And also a good time travel movie! In the first five minutes you’re given a good indication of what you’ve signed…
Smoking Causes Coughing
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING This writer/director (Quentin Dupieux) definitely makes odd films. I found this one to be more grounded than his others I’ve…
Keeping Company
| B | Other Worlds 2021 | This movie had a lot going on in it. As it approached the end it started to branch out in multiple directions but…