Range Roads
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2021 | Similar in concept to Time Now, in that some family of the main character dies and she reluctantly returns to visit her…
Spaghetti Junction
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2021 | I feel the festival blurb for this film was a bit misleading, pitching it as supernatural and a struggle against a strange…
Time Now
| D | Austin Film Festival 2021 | I walked out in the middle of this film. Normally that gives it an F grade, but it wasn't so bad it…
Swamp Lion
| B | Austin Film Festival 2021 | Good indie film about a family whose backs are against the wall because of the costs of their son's cancer treatments. You…
The Same Storm
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2021 | This was a COVID film. It not only took place during the worst period of the pandemic, but also was all Zoom…
Samuel’s Travels
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2021 | Interesting film very much in the style of a fable. Which allowed some odd choices to be made by the characters, but all…
Zalava
| B | Fantastic Fest 2021 | The trailer didn't really impress me, but I decided to take a chance. (Probably because FF said it was the "Winner 'Best Film'…
Glasshouse
| B | Fantastic Fest 2021 | This one is a real thinker. No so much slow as subtle--you really have to pay attention to catch little things. And turned…
R#J
| --- | SXSW 2021 | No grade for this one--I started it but was not interested. It's "Romeo and Juliet" for 20-year-olds who are more used to social media…
Our Father
| C- | SXSW 2021 | Another film that doesn't feel like a movie. I think this classifies as "mumblecore" because a bunch of activity goes on, but it doesn't…