Little Jar
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | From all the AFF movie trailers I could find, I was looking forward to this film the most. And it was marvelous.…
Blow Up My Life
| C+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | I knew we were in trouble about three minutes in. The movie starts with the main character in a graveyard (during the…
The Lost King
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2022 | A very good movie, but what else would you expect from co-writer Steve Coogan and director Stephen Frears? It's a dramatization of…
Quicksand
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2022 | There were some funny things in this movie, though more of them appeared in the end than the beginning. If more of…
Daniel’s Gotta Die
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | Funny. Definitely a dark comedy, but I love those. This is one of those movies where most of the characters are scheming…
Beauty Of A Blank Space
| B | Austin Film Festival 2022 | An endearing road trip movie where the two main characters find themselves along the way. The type of indie film I’m always…
The Bystanders
| B | Austin Film Festival 2022 | An amusing movie about our guardian angels, with the tag line "They watch over us but they can't stand us." Occasionally laugh-out-loud,…
Heard She Got Married
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | I had time for one more film before the final FF@Home movies expired. Having just enjoyed Magic Spot, I decided to watch this…
Magic Spot
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | There's a group of folks (a troupe, perhaps) that call themselves Motern Media. Magic Spot was my first experience with them even though…
Shin Ultraman
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2022 | I enjoyed Shin Godzilla when I saw it at Fantastic Fest (good lord, six years ago?). So with this film coming from the…