Women Texas Film Festival

WOMEN TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL 2017 REVIEWS: Cati Gonzalez ‘s EKAJ is a bold, harrowing film about life on the streets that makes most Hollywood films look “soft”

By Miguel Cima 9 years ago

Allowing oneself to be basted in the film’s world is transformative. Never again will you look at “bums” and “degenerates” in a one-dimensional way. Because now, you’ve lived with them. Forget the soft edges and Hollywood dazzle of films like Midnight Cowboy or My Own Private Idaho. Such works don’t dare to delve into the filmic poetry and crushingly honest depictions which EKAJ achieves.

WOMEN TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL 2017 REVIEWS: Savannah Bloch ‘s drama AND THEN THERE WAS EVE is clever, brain-twisting, with a hard-hitting ending

By Miguel Cima 9 years ago

It’s hard to talk about the progression of events without giving away too much. But in case any viewer worries that the mystery of the missing hubby isn’t resolved (a la Fellini’s L’avventura), no need to fear. The building up of events comes full circle with a hard-hitting twist ending you won’t see coming, probably the most surprising reveal since…but that would be telling.

FILMS GONE WILD: A rant about lame journalists and how a lot of people missed the amazing thing that Studio Movie Grill did when WONDER WOMAN opened

By John Wildman 9 years ago

And meanwhile great film and entertainment journalists and critics like Steve Dollar, Susan King, and Ed Douglas aren’t getting raised on a pedestal by the people who employ them. Or frankly, not employed nearly as much as they should be. These are pros. People that do this stuff the right way. I don’t remember one of them having issues reading through the first fucking paragraph in a press release.

DALLAS ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2017 REVIEW: Lee Soo-Youn's BLUEBEARD is a creepy twisting vine, entangling reality and illusion as dismembered bodies emerge in an entirely modern tale

By Daphne Street 9 years ago

Beneath the surface, however, seems to be another theme that is perhaps a bold statement on the dangers of disassociation of connections and relationships in modern urban culture. It is strongly implied that this abrupt disruption from home, wife, child, professional identity and economic class helped ignite the doctor’s decline in mental stability—that the strain of these sudden jarring changes and absence of connectedness brought on a psychological collapse.

FILMS GONE WILD: Justina Walford moderates Women Texas Film Festival’s Special Screening of XX at Alamo Drafthouse Dallas on International Women’s Day

By John Wildman 9 years ago

While discussing the films in XX, praise was evenly distributed among THE BOX, BIRTHDAY PARTY, and HER ONLY LIVING SON for various reasons, but the biggest laugh of the night came from the diminutive Niki Pence, when she explained her preference of DON’T FALL by explaining that the film connected with her since throughout her life, she has been “full of rage.”