Sometimes, when a movie plays at SXSW, it’s not just a screening, it’s a celebration. Last year, that was true about ‘The Breakfast Club.’ This year, the celebration was for the opening night premiere of Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some.’
(First published on blogcritics.org) Friday was a dead night at the Dances with Films film festival (now in its nineteenth year of bringing the best of the independent film world to the heart of Hollywood), but in a good way. The two “dead” films that screened that night were Dead Dad and Detention of the Dead. Dead Dad, the West Coast […]
(Originally published on Blogcritics.org) Publicity described Radioactive as a film about a scientist with flash forwards to show the results of her work. “Sounds boring”, I thought. Wrong. Never have I used the word “mesmerizing” about any film before, but Radioactive is exactly that. Director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis, The Voices) and screenwriter Jack Thorne (Wonder, […]
