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…
Ultrasound
| B+ | Other Worlds 2021 | Best of the films I caught live at the festival (though I'll get to catch others streaming over the next week). A film…
The Alternate
| B | Other Worlds 2021 | I will say up front that the origin of the portal is strange (and unique), but the care taken in the lead-up to…
Keeping Company
| B | Other Worlds 2021 | This movie had a lot going on in it. As it approached the end it started to branch out in multiple directions but…
Rehab Cabin
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2021 | Another fun comedy. One of those films that isn't so much about the situations the main characters get themselves into, but watching…
He’s Dead & So Am I
| B | Austin Film Festival 2021 | A goofy comedy about two ghosts trapped in Purgatory, which means they're stuck where they died until they prove whether they should…
Lucas
| B | Austin Film Festival 2021 | Like Spaghetti Junction, this film was a coming-of-age story.. But this one was much grittier, perhaps because it's a boy's story? Or…
The Humans
| B | Austin Film Festival 2021 | This was originally a Tony-winning play that then got turned into this movie. And certainly it sounds like one--I feel like playwrights…
Range Roads
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2021 | Similar in concept to Time Now, in that some family of the main character dies and she reluctantly returns to visit her…