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…
The Visitor From The Future
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2022 | Very funny! And also a good time travel movie! In the first five minutes you’re given a good indication of what you’ve signed…
Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2021 | This is my top gem of this year's festival. The script was really good, twisting through this woman's history to look at…
Masking Threshold
| A | Fantastic Fest 2021 | This was a fascinating, fascinating movie. If it's an experimental movie, it's a successful one. Yes, the whole film is like the trailer--stream…
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2021 | I love a good twisty time movie! And this sub-genre of "peek into the future" (but no one actually travels through time) is,…
Recovery
| A- | SXSW 2021 | So funny! I laughed a lot, and there were some touching parts, too. These two kids (co-writers and co-stars) are great together. (Video footage…
I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking)
| A- | SXSW 2021 | Another delightful film. Again, I was emotionally invested in the story and the main character and her struggle. And I was touched by the…
Language Lessons
| A | SXSW 2021 | The best film of the festival so far! I was apprehensive going in, based on the one-sentence description--my mind was filling in all sorts…
Lapsis
| A | Other Worlds Austin 2020 | I was thoroughly engaged by this film. The main character starts out clueless (as we all are in movies about worlds beyond…
An Ideal Host
| A- | Other Worlds Austin 2020 | This was a very fun film. As I remember, the first half is firmly in romantic comedy mode, stylishly and wittily filmed,…