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…
Strange Darling
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2023 | This cut of the film started out very cleverly, which you won't get to see once the movie is released. The first frames…
The Toxic Avenger
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2023 | World premiere at Fantastic Fest! In attendance were Macon Blair (director of this reboot) and Lloyd Kaufman (co-writer/co-director of the 1984 original, and…
Have Hold Take
| A- | Other Worlds 2022 | This creative team (writer/actress and director) brought The Fare to Other Worlds in 2018 and I loved it, so I had high expectations…
Violent Night
| A- | Other Worlds 2022 | The festival could not get the opening night movie to play (something in the digital protection could not be unlocked), so they persuaded…