Theatrical Review: Ti West’s MAXXXINE Brings Us Back to the Dirty Streets of Gen X’s Hollywood, and It’s Delightful
Ti West’s MAXXXINE Brings Us Back to the Dirty Streets of Gen X’s Hollywood, and
Justina Walford with team: Dallas and North Texas Film Festival Directors and Programmers Name their Top Films of 2019
The heads of prominent Dallas and North Texas Film Festivals announced their selections for the Top Ten Films of 2019 during WFAA’s Midday at 8 news broadcast today with Olivia Wilde’s BOOKSMART, Bong Joon Ho’s PARASITE, and Quentin Tarantino’s’ ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD taking the top three spots among films released in 2019.
TRIBECA 2019 REVIEWS: Mary Harron’s CHARLIE SAYS puts the focus on the women that followed Manson as opposed to the deadly cult leader
Watching Leslie’s journey from lost runaway to absolute devotee of a madman is an exercise in the mechanisms behind loneliness, a yearning to belong, and to be free.
VOD REVIEWS: Ryan Prows’s LOWLIFE is a Darkly Comic Look at a Microcosm of Our Country That Must Be Seen
Lowlife follows an eclectic group of characters over the course of a single day in Los Angeles, including a famed Mexican wrestler (or luchador) named El Monstruo (Ricardo Adam Zarate), his pregnant wife (Santana Dempsey), a motel owner named Crystal (Nicki Micheaux) desperate to save her ailing husband Dan, and a pair of incompetent criminals (Jon Oswald and Ogbonna) who see their friendship tested in bizarre ways by the conflict created by Haynes.
THE GUEST COLUMN – Are Film Festivals the Last Bastion of the Theatrical Experience? From Films Gone Wild
There are many in the industry still clinging onto the theatrical experience, from filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino, to companies like IMAX and Moviepass, but you still can’t really beat the experience of watching a movie, which some people have never even heard of, at a film festival. Hands down some of the best screenings I’ve ever attended have been at film festivals. In some cases, I’ve never had another chance to see those movies with an audience.
FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Tallgrass International Film Festival to honor Rose McGowan with this year's Ad Astra Award
Rose McGowan has been a major indie film icon that epitomizes the phrase ‘stubbornly independent.’ However, we have all learned that as dynamic as her onscreen presence was, it was barely scratching the surface of her filmmaking vision – as demonstrated by her directorial debut, DAWN.
THE GUEST COLUMN: Women Texas Film Festival's Justina Walford asks, "Do you dare look inside a female filmmaker's brain?" "Can you handle the Sisterhood?"
Do we dare to watch? Do we dare to look at women’s brains? No matter how ambitious, how whimsical, how inclusive or exclusive, how morbid or light, how vapid or cerebral? Are we willing to embrace the cynicism? The bluntness?