SXSW 2024: Dickweed, Secret Mall Apartment, She Looks Like Me | Festivals & Awards

There’s a similar “did you hear that crazy podcast” angle to Jeremy Workman’s “Secret Mall Apartment,” a documentary about a group of Rhode Island creatives who literally built an apartment in the Providence Place Mall in the early 2000s. After discovering space between two of the buildings in the massive structure, these artists decided to … Read more

SXSW 2024: Roleplay, Gasoline Rainbow, Grand Theft Hamlet | Festivals & Awards

There’s a similar “act of listening to young people” angle to the latest project from the form-breaking geniuses known as the Ross brothers. The directors of “Western,” “Contemporary Color,” and “Bloody Noses, Empty Pockets” are back with a film that once again defies categorization in a fascinating way. Like their last project, a purist might … Read more

SXSW Film Festival 2024: Babes, My Dead Friend Zoe, Y2K | Festivals & Awards

And it lands in a place that feels true and even moving. It’s a film that’s understandably almost in awe of what women have to go through to make another human being. We’ve seen so many films that put motherhood on a pedestal, and no one is suggesting it shouldn’t be, but “Babes” is more … Read more

Creepy Shudder Original to World Premiere at SXSW

Shudder, the premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural has announced that the supernatural spectacle Oddity by writer-director Damian McCarthy (Caveat) will world premiere at SXSW in the Midnighter Section. Oddity Details Oddity follows a blind medium who uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.  … Read more

Doug Liman to boycott SXSW premiere of his Road House remake

Road House director Doug Liman will be boycotting the SXSW premiere of his movie in protest of Amazon not giving it a theatrical release. The upcoming Road House remake is set to premiere at the upcoming SXSW film festival, but director Doug Liman won’t be attending. This isn’t down to any scheduling issue or because … Read more