Austin

SXSW 2019 REVIEWS: Jeff Sandmann’s NOTHING STAYS THE SAME: THE STORY OF THE SAXON PUB is a gem of a film about the peril of Austin’s bars and the musicians that play there because they made the city a cool place to live

By Miguel Cima 7 years ago

Austin is the victim of its own success. Real estate is out of control. Taxes are going up. Wealthier residents are attracted to the Texan capital and the good old days of dirt-poor guitar players making it on minimum job wages by day then hitting the stage by night to try their luck at a music career are fading.

INDIE MEMPHIS 2017 REVIEWS: Noel Wells's Austin-based self-discovery comedy MR. ROOSEVELT dares you to watch it and not laugh

By Geoff Marslett 8 years ago

I’d compare the film to Mike Judge’s work, and I mean this as a gigantic complement. No single gag is necessarily fall out of your seat funny, instead they cumulatively charm you until you can’t seem to do anything except laugh at every interaction. She does this by not overly exaggerating any given moment in an unrealistic joke, but rather taking hundreds of totally believable ridiculous incidents and cramming them all together into one escalating funny movie-long joke.