SUBTOPIA: The Story of Hueco Canyon
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Well done! An indie movie with excellent production values, emulating documentary formats (interviews and reenactments). The festival director said when she started…
A Real Pain
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Delightful. Two quite opposite characters who love each other but come with the friction of being family. A really good script, with…
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…
Operation Taco Gary’s
| A | Austin Film Festival 2024 | Here’s the easy part: This movie was hilarious! The hard part is describing any of it. Goofy? Absurd? Borderline surreal? A little…
A Different Man
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2024 | The deepest film I’ve seen so far at the festival. This movie was partially about perceptions, but more I think about the choices…
Dead Talents Society
| A | Fantastic Fest 2024 | A delightful comedy! And so many marvelous aspects to it. I'm extremely impressed with the director/co-writer, who mixed so many different styles into…
For When You Get Lost
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2023 | I’m on a streak—three movies in a row with fantastic scripts! This movie came across as so real. The characters were so…
Bucky F*cking Dent
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2023 | So well done! A beautiful and touching script. Excellent acting. (Stephanie Beatriz had one particularly notable scene.) Overall an impressive movie from…