WASTELANDER PANDA Is Coming For You. New Series Teasers Begin
Last year we found out about a strange new hybrid of awesome, a webseries about a Max Rockatansky-style panda wandering the blasted post-apocalyptic landscape. A prologue for this series, Wastelander Panda, was launched online, and after an overwhelming vote of... More »
  

SXSW 2013 Review: SNAP Rattles Nerves as a Mind Unhinges
It's always the quiet ones. Jim (Jake Hoffman) is a quiet, unassuming, hesitant, and incredibly shy young man. He escapes into music, whaling blasts of noise and harsh beats that he shapes into accompaniment for daily news footage, and posts... More »
  

SXSW 2013 Review: BIG ASS SPIDER! Attacks Los Angeles With More Humor Than Horror
Truth in advertising is such a rare commodity that Big Ass Spider! gets one of its eight legs up on the competition because of it. Clearly, director Mike Mendez and his collaborators behind the camera completely buy into the idea... More »
  

SXSW 2013: BIG ASS SPIDER Clip Will Melt Your Face Off!
There is an expression in the world of Metal music called 'The Face Melter'. It is when you get a heavy metal solo that is so awesome and powerful, it causes one's face to melt. You will not find any Heavy Metal music in this... More »
  

SXSW 2013 Exclusive: SWIM LITTLE FISH SWIM Trailer Makes A Delightful Splash
Director Ruben Amar is no newb to the world of film festivals, what with his slew of short films, including Checkpoint, playing the likes of Slamdance, Saraosta and Palm Springs. Teaming up with his fellow French compatriot Lola Bessis for... More »
  

Experience The Dark Side Of Dubstep In The Teaser For SXSW Title SNAP *Video Now Embedded*
You know about those young whippersnappers out there dancing and grinding and convulsing to a new brand of electronic music that they've titled dubstep, right? Well, who would have thought that anybody would ever make a dark, psychological drama with... More »
  

Cue the Wagner, Cue The War! Trailer for MILIUS Documentary
Writer.  Filmmaker. Gun-owner.  And all around bad-ass, John Milius, is the man who is responsible in part for the Dirty Harry franchise, Apocalypse Now, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, 1941, Conan The Barbarian, Red Dawn and HBO's... More »
  

Serpents And Sinners In Trailer For Mitchell Altieri's HOLY GHOST PEOPLE
William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and the like had it right. When you take people somewhere off the beaten track and stoke a religious fervor in them, strange things can happen. You don't even need to go off the beaten track... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

SXSW 2013 Exclusive: Teaser Trailer Debut for GOOD NIGHT
It's festival trailer premiere season and we've got another SXSW exclusive for you. This time it's the feature debut Good Night from director Sean H. A. Gallagher. Though the premise sounds a bit dark, the trailer looks like a... More »
  

SXSW 2013 Exclusive: Trailer Debut for SAKE-BOMB
There's really nothing as funny as some good ironically racist humor, which is exactly what looks to be on full display in this Twitch exclusive trailer debut for Junya Sakino SXSW Premiering debut feature Sake-Bomb. Billed as a sexed-up... More »
  

Afghanistan TV Goes Indie in SXSW Selected THE NETWORK
Soon to debut at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, The Network documents the creation of the first independent television network in Afghanistan. Eva Orner, an award-winning Australian producer, makes her directorial debut with the documentary. The festival describes... More »
  

SXSW 2013: First Trailer For BIG ASS SPIDER Does What It Says On The Tin
Mike Mendez is one of the great underrated directors of low budget splattery horror. I first came to notice him with The Convent back in 2000, a fun little haunted house/possession film starring the great Adrienne Barbeau. In the years... More »
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Fabulous First Trailer For SXSW Selected Gang Drama LICKS
Exepct director Jonathan Singer-Vine to turn a lot of heads at SXSW with his debut feature Licks. The story of a young man returning home after a stint in prison the first trailer for this one has just arrived and... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

SXSW Doc Selection REWIND THIS Offers Up A New Trailer
There is a compelling argument to be made that nothing has had a larger impact on the film world throughout its entire existence than the VHS tape. Not the arrival of color. Not the arrival of sound. Nothing. Because while... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Break Out Your Twenty Sided Die And The Trailer For SXSW Selected Comedy ZERO CHARISMA
Michael Paul Stephenson is on a roll. Once a trivia answer amongst cult film buffs thanks to his childhood acting role in Troll 2 - considered by many to be the worst movie ever made - Stephenson turned that notoriety... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Have Sex. Save The World.
Fresh off appearances at the Warsaw and Rotterdam film festivals and on its way to SXSW, Michal Marczak's documentary Fuck For Forest is sure to raise eyebrows for its racy subject matter.Berlin's Fuck For Forest is one of the world's... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Get Charmed By Existentialist Crime Rom-Com EVERYONE'S GOING TO DIE
SXSW issued their first programming announcement yesterday and while The Evil Dead and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone may have dominated the headlines there were other worthwhile gems lurking within. Gems like Everyone's Going To Die, a feature film by UK... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

SMALL APARTMENTS, Big Cast, Off-beat Trailer
Premiering last spring at SXSW, Jonas Akerlund's Small Apartments garnered decent buzz as a starring vehicle for British comedian Matt Lucas then went on its merry way to a string of other festivals, but hasn't really been heard from much... More »
  

Ron Perlman is One Ugly Lady in First Teaser for 3,2,1... FRANKIE GO BOOM
It only takes a minute of footage to get a pretty good idea of what kind of comedy will be on display in Jordan Roberts's SXSW feature 3,2,1... FRANKIE GO BOOM (previously titled minus the "3,2,1...") when it hits theaters... More »
  

New SINISTER Trailer. Some Things Are Better Left In The Attic.
There is the old saying, 'skeletons in the closet', which I don't think quite covers '8mm home movies in your attic'. At least not when it comes to upcoming supernatural horror film Sinister.  SINISTER is a frightening new thriller from the... More »
  
 
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