Spaghetti Junction
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2021 | I feel the festival blurb for this film was a bit misleading, pitching it as supernatural and a struggle against a strange…
Swamp Lion
| B | Austin Film Festival 2021 | Good indie film about a family whose backs are against the wall because of the costs of their son's cancer treatments. You…
The Same Storm
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2021 | This was a COVID film. It not only took place during the worst period of the pandemic, but also was all Zoom…
The Timekeepers Of Eternity
| B | Fantastic Fest 2021 | This film was definitely experimental. It took the 1995 TV mini-series The Langoliers (based on Steven King's novella From Four Past Midnight), prints…
Samuel’s Travels
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2021 | Interesting film very much in the style of a fable. Which allowed some odd choices to be made by the characters, but all…
Barbarians
| B | Fantastic Fest 2021 | Enjoyable thriller that starts out as an uncomfortable dinner party. Two brothers with their girlfriends, so you can already expect some tension. Then…
Zalava
| B | Fantastic Fest 2021 | The trailer didn't really impress me, but I decided to take a chance. (Probably because FF said it was the "Winner 'Best Film'…
Glasshouse
| B | Fantastic Fest 2021 | This one is a real thinker. No so much slow as subtle--you really have to pay attention to catch little things. And turned…
How It Ends
| B+ | SXSW 2021 | Quirky and delightful. I loved how blasé everyone is about the end of the world (guess they've all already moved through the denial, anger,…
Swan Song
| B | SXSW 2021 | An engaging story about an old, humbled man revisiting his past and reclaiming a bit of its glory. Udo Kier is fantastic in this…