Ned Rifle
| B+ | SXSW 2015 | This was a very quirky movie. The situations and characters were fun. The dialog was funny and literary (the word thrown around during the…
The Phoenix Project
| B+ | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | And the festival ended on a good note. Several of the movies were low-budget, as was this one, but filmed so well…
The Reconstruction Of William Zero
| D | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | Oh, the trailer (not the one linked below) looked so intriguing. But the movie did not live up to the promise. On…
The Perfect 46
| C | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | This movie was such a mixed bag. Positive: the narrative structure was interesting (two timelines plus a documentary, but you had no…
Aura
| C | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | This movie started out good, then tapered off. By the end, it felt to me like a Young Adult sci-fi movie--not rational…
The Sun Devil And The Princess
| B | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | This one was obviously a trial film--a "let me show you what I can do so you'll give me the money for…
Gear
| A | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | Another short I saw that I thought was pretty good, but wasn't going to mention it. But it lingered in my mind,…
Time Lapse
| A+ | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | This movie was brilliant! A couple of minor flaws, but the script--oh, the marvelous, mind-bending, time-twisting script... Everything you could ask for…
Emit
| B | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | This short was notable because it was actually good! Well done. I don't need to tell you anything about it--follow the link…
Strangers
| F | Other Worlds Austin 2014 | I'm not going to talk about every short film I saw--just a couple of notable ones. And this one was so bad,…