BREAKING NEWS: CRITICS DISMISS CARPENTER’S ‘THE THING’ AS “INSTANT JUNK”BREAKING NEWS: ‘THE THING’ AND ‘BLADE RUNNER’ BOTH BOMB ON SAME WEEKENDBREAKING NEWS: KUBRICK NOMINATED FOR WORST DIRECTOR FOR ‘THE SHINING’BREAKING NEWS: ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ UP FOR WORST PICTURE AT FIRST-EVER RAZZIESBREAKING NEWS: ‘HOCUS POCUS’ FLOPS IN JULY; EBERT GIVES IT ONE STARBREAKING NEWS: HARPER’S CALLS ‘TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE’ “A VILE LITTLE PIECE OF SICK CRAP”BREAKING NEWS: ‘THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’ NOMINATED FOR WORST PICTUREBREAKING NEWS: STEPHEN KING HATES KUBRICK’S ‘THE SHINING’BREAKING NEWS: CRITICS DISMISS CARPENTER’S ‘THE THING’ AS “INSTANT JUNK”BREAKING NEWS: ‘THE THING’ AND ‘BLADE RUNNER’ BOTH BOMB ON SAME WEEKENDBREAKING NEWS: KUBRICK NOMINATED FOR WORST DIRECTOR FOR ‘THE SHINING’BREAKING NEWS: ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ UP FOR WORST PICTURE AT FIRST-EVER RAZZIESBREAKING NEWS: ‘HOCUS POCUS’ FLOPS IN JULY; EBERT GIVES IT ONE STARBREAKING NEWS: HARPER’S CALLS ‘TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE’ “A VILE LITTLE PIECE OF SICK CRAP”BREAKING NEWS: ‘THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT’ NOMINATED FOR WORST PICTUREBREAKING NEWS: STEPHEN KING HATES KUBRICK’S ‘THE SHINING’

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SXSW ’15 REVIEW

SXSW Review: PETTING ZOO

SXSW Review: PETTING ZOO

Petting Zoo exists in the crossroads between Texas-sized conservative values and an emerging genus of first-generation aspirations as 17-year-old Layla finds herself simultaneously presented with a college scholarship and a bun in the oven. Writer, director Micah Magee‘s tale of unexpected pregnancy is one that cuts close to home, having been a pregnant teen herself....

Matt Oakes · Mar 12, 2015

SXSW ’15 REVIEW

SXSW Review: SWEATY BETTY

SXSW Review: SWEATY BETTY

Idiosyncratic Sweaty Betty is a documentary-cum-nonfiction of odd variety. Consisting of six scenes and six cuts and using a cast composed entirely of non-actors, it represents a new-age, inner city twist on the undiluted realism of Richard Linklater or Curtis Snow’s disconcertingly realistic Snow on Tha Bluff. Tactically less intellectual than Linklater and yet more...

Matt Oakes · Mar 12, 2015