The Ego Death of Queen Cecilia
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2024 | I really enjoyed this film. The main character was interesting, and on an emotional level going through something we all do at…
The Order
| A | Austin Film Festival 2024 | I often skip the big-studio films playing at Austin Film Festival, since they will be released soon and I want to see…
Lake George
| A | Fantastic Fest 2024 | A marvelous movie. The description in the program sums it up perfectly: “A darkly comedic neo-noir, a road trip movie, and a redemption…
Tummy Monster
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Excellent script! Which got turned into an excellent movie. Watching the two characters parry and thrust with each other was tense and…
Crossword
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2024 | This was mostly a good film. I was expecting something in the horror vein, but this was more a Paranoid Thriller. It certainly…
I, The Executioner
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | A very good Korean cop thriller. I enjoyed the characters and the crime they were investigating. There was one twist I guessed early…
Bone Lake
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | This movie switched gears (genres) several times, to good effect. It started out as an interesting psychological, cat-and-mouse thriller. (They bill themselves as…
The Rule of Jenny Pen
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2024 | The acting was excellent. As you would expect from Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow. And the director’s style was interesting—good composition in many…
The Hidden Web
| B | Austin Film Festival 2023 | An engaging mystery. It seemed slow at times, but paid off with the twists and the gruesome depiction of the crimes underneath…
Last Straw
| D | Austin Film Festival | I’m not sure why this film was made. I don’t go to a lot of movies in this “lone woman against psychos” genre,…