Madelines
| C+ | Other Worlds 2021 | The premise sounded interesting: Madeline and Owen have invented time travel, but after discovering a mistake in the code that causes a copy…
Rehab Cabin
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2021 | Another fun comedy. One of those films that isn't so much about the situations the main characters get themselves into, but watching…
He’s Dead & So Am I
| B | Austin Film Festival 2021 | A goofy comedy about two ghosts trapped in Purgatory, which means they're stuck where they died until they prove whether they should…
Let The Wrong One In
| C | Fantastic Fest 2021 | No trailer was available, but there were several things to give me high hopes for this movie: Irish comedy, title referencing one of…
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2021 | I love a good twisty time movie! And this sub-genre of "peek into the future" (but no one actually travels through time) is,…
How It Ends
| B+ | SXSW 2021 | Quirky and delightful. I loved how blasé everyone is about the end of the world (guess they've all already moved through the denial, anger,…
Recovery
| A- | SXSW 2021 | So funny! I laughed a lot, and there were some touching parts, too. These two kids (co-writers and co-stars) are great together. (Video footage…
Language Lessons
| A | SXSW 2021 | The best film of the festival so far! I was apprehensive going in, based on the one-sentence description--my mind was filling in all sorts…
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
| B+ | SXSW 2021 | My kind of film! A dark comedy with heart. It was a little slow to get to the promise of the synopsis, but all…
The End of Us
| D | SXSW 2021 | Ugh. I did not enjoy this movie. The first 1/3 was more like a historical drama, documenting the early days of our COVID experience.…