Miles Away
| B | Austin Film Festival 2025 | Exactly the type of indie movie I enjoy seeing at festivals. I cringed at the very beginning of the movie when the…
Is This Thing On?
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2025 | Understand going in that the stand-up comedy in this movie is more of a side plot. There's a good bit of it…
Leads
| B | Austin Film Festival 2025 | Good movie about two siblings and their relationship. With a couple of side issues each was dealing with. Good acting. I enjoyed…
The Long Shot
| C | Austin Film Festival 2025 | Very interesting as a love letter to Austin. At least to me, having lived here so long and knowing most of the…
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
| A | Austin Film Festival 2025 | Another excellent film from Rian Johnson and the cast and crew he pulled together. And what a cast! Playing interesting characters. The…
Whistle
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Good horror film with a unique hook that allowed for some creatively visual deaths. Written by Austinite Owen Egerton (who unfortunately could not…
Silence
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Interesting, stylish take on a vampire movie. A lot of talking and debating, surprisingly—often about the scarcity of blood supply during some epidemics…
Ikatan Darah
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Another good action movie. Good fights. Some amped-up bad guys. Plenty of blood. And boy, did these filmmakers love breaking furniture! One interesting…
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This is the other secret screening I attended. The world premiere of Gore Verbinski’s latest film (which I was not even aware of),…
The Ice Tower
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This felt very much like a French art house film. There was some story, but so much of the film was slow and…