South by Southwest premiered the British crime thriller Us and Them. Jack Roth plays a working class Brit who turns the tables on a 1%er family. Us and Them is the first fiction film from writer/director Joe Martin who’d previously made documentary shorts and features. We spoke with Martin in Austin about the film’s issues and […]
A Critically Endangered Species premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. The first film from writer/directors Magdalena Zyzak and Zachary Colter stars Lena Olin as Maya Dardel, a poet and novelist who announces her plans for suicide on NPR. Looking for an executor of her will and beneficiary of her estate, Maya auditions men whom she […]
There is a history to the title Game of Death. It was Bruce Lee’s dream project but after his death it got warped. There was a straight to video Wesley Snipes vehicle called Game of Death. In a way Game of Death is taking it back, literally creating a game of death so there can […]
Caroline Dhavernas is one of my favorite actors. I can to her relatively late since Hannibal was the first thing I noticed her in. She played my favorite character in Goodbye World, a film in which every character represented a different perspective. So I was glad to see her in her own movie at SXSW, […]
Fits and Starts is an indie version of those movies where a bad night keeps escalating, like After Hours or Adventures in Babysitting. Only since it’s about a bunch of pretentious artists, the only escalating danger is smugness. David Warwick (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling author who’s married to published author Jennifer Lee (Greta Lee). […]