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…
Bad City
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | Fun Japanese gangster action movie. A convicted ex-cop released on temporary parole to lead a special task force to halt a feud between…
Sick Of Myself
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2022 | A marvelous black comedy! The tone was perfect. Such awful things were happening and I was laughing the whole way through it. It's…
Amazing Eliza
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2022 | This was an engaging drama, skipping around between three separate storylines. Each kept me involved, with interesting characters making sometimes surprising choices. What…
Smoking Causes Coughing
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING This writer/director (Quentin Dupieux) definitely makes odd films. I found this one to be more grounded than his others I’ve…