BREAKING NEWS: CITIZEN KANE LOSES BEST PICTURE TO HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY BREAKING NEWS: HITCHCOCK'S VERTIGO BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE, DEEMED COMMERCIAL FAILURE BREAKING NEWS: KUBRICK'S 2001 TOO CONFUSING, AUDIENCES DEMAND REFUNDS BREAKING NEWS: BRANDO REFUSES OSCAR, SENDS APACHE ACTIVIST IN HIS PLACE BREAKING NEWS: THE EXORCIST FIRST FILM NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE FEATURING PROJECTILE DEMON VOMIT BREAKING NEWS: SPIELBERG'S JAWS BREAKS ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE RECORD BREAKING NEWS: LUCAS STEALS SPIELBERG'S BOX OFFICE RECORD WITH STAR WARS BREAKING NEWS: SPIELBERG RECLAIMS RECORD FROM LUCAS WITH E.T. BREAKING NEWS: WATERWORLD BECOMES MOST EXPENSIVE FILM IN HISTORY AT $175 MILLION BREAKING NEWS: SHOWGIRLS SETS RECORD FOR MOST RAZZIES WON BY SINGLE FILM BREAKING NEWS: ACADEMY VOTERS ASKED TO ACTUALLY WATCH ALL NOMINATED FILMS BREAKING NEWS: CITIZEN KANE LOSES BEST PICTURE TO HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY BREAKING NEWS: HITCHCOCK'S VERTIGO BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE, DEEMED COMMERCIAL FAILURE BREAKING NEWS: KUBRICK'S 2001 TOO CONFUSING, AUDIENCES DEMAND REFUNDS BREAKING NEWS: BRANDO REFUSES OSCAR, SENDS APACHE ACTIVIST IN HIS PLACE BREAKING NEWS: THE EXORCIST FIRST FILM NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE FEATURING PROJECTILE DEMON VOMIT BREAKING NEWS: SPIELBERG'S JAWS BREAKS ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE RECORD BREAKING NEWS: LUCAS STEALS SPIELBERG'S BOX OFFICE RECORD WITH STAR WARS BREAKING NEWS: SPIELBERG RECLAIMS RECORD FROM LUCAS WITH E.T. BREAKING NEWS: WATERWORLD BECOMES MOST EXPENSIVE FILM IN HISTORY AT $175 MILLION BREAKING NEWS: SHOWGIRLS SETS RECORD FOR MOST RAZZIES WON BY SINGLE FILM BREAKING NEWS: ACADEMY VOTERS ASKED TO ACTUALLY WATCH ALL NOMINATED FILMS
FILM REVIEWS · FEATURES · FESTIVALS · INTERVIEWS Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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SXSW ’16 Review: ‘DON’T BREATHE’

SXSW ’16 Review: ‘DON’T BREATHE’

Let me be clear, you probably can’t handle Don’t Breathe. Hitchcockian in concept and French New Wave in execution, the batshit bonkers new horror film from Fede Alvarez is a sanguine-stained guillotine of heinous intensity. The Uruguayan director has issued French extremity an American passport, inviting a true-to-form, heart-stopping gang bang of insane tension to...

FESTIVAL
SXSW ’16 Review: ‘TEENAGE COCKTAIL’

SXSW ’16 Review: ‘TEENAGE COCKTAIL’

When high school student Annie heads to a new school, she finds herself surrounded by hostile faces. And needle-in-the-haystack Jules. The two attractive outsiders immediately strike up a kinship and a secret flame broils, leading them down forbidden passageways of mutual lust and peddled cajolery.

FESTIVAL
SXSW ’16 Review: ‘EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!’

SXSW ’16 Review: ‘EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!’

There’s a moment in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some where four collegiate athletes hover around an overstuffed bong, listening to the psychedelic crackle of Led Zeppelin, competing to see who can take the biggest bong rip.  It’s an indisputably Linklater moment, one that speaks to the essence of the Austin filmmaker’s disco baseball comedy that...

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ’10 CLOVERFIELD LANE’

Out in Theaters: ’10 CLOVERFIELD LANE’

Bizarre by traditional sequel standards, '10 Cloverfield Lane' is nonetheless an immaculate  work of genre craftsmanship,  a bustling coup de grace of wit, intensity and phenomenal performances with John Goodman…

REVIEW
Out In Theaters: ‘KNIGHT OF CUPS’

Out In Theaters: ‘KNIGHT OF CUPS’

A pretentious visual collage that panders to art-house patrons as much as it rejects traditional constructs of entertainment, 'Knight of Cups' is in desperate need of a plot and consequently…

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘EDDIE THE EAGLE’

Out in Theaters: ‘EDDIE THE EAGLE’

From a birds eye view, there’s not a ton of novelty to 'Eddie the Eagle'’s underdog sports narrative but refreshing individual moments and outlandish characters make it an experience worth…

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘TRIPLE 9’

Out in Theaters: ‘TRIPLE 9’

'Triple 9' honors the esteemed tradition of American crime films, tipping its hat hither and thither to the greats that preceded it, creating a circus of variably intriguing characters to…

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘THE WITCH’

Out in Theaters: ‘THE WITCH’

When the family snaps under the pressure of internal and external presses, it’s anyone’s game and you’ll want to behold the result. The fact that The Witch is up for…

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘ZOOLANDER 2’

Out in Theaters: ‘ZOOLANDER 2’

Fans of Zoolander, beware. 'Zoolander 2' is so vomitously dumb, so affrontively underwritten and so actively bad that it just might make your affection for the original evaporate. Ben Stiller…

REVIEW
Out in Theaters: ‘DEADPOOL’

Out in Theaters: ‘DEADPOOL’

'Deadpool' is the superhero equivalent of Ace Ventura; a sub-social mold of swirly-giving irreverence; a modern day homo erectus arched over and talking out his butt. The shamelessly crass character…