SXSW Review: 7 Chinese Brothers
Austin filmmaker Bob Byington likes to set his films in an environment many of us recognize and understand: the featureless, tidy, chain-populated world of the lower-rent suburbs. His characters often...
View ArticleSXSW Review: Results
Oh my god, Andrew Bujalski has sold out. The filmmaker with a reputation for populating his indies with non-actors has brought us a film that stars, yes, starsGuy Pearce and Cobie Smulders. I don't...
View ArticleSXSW Review: The Overnight
Here we have a pair of newcomers to Southern California, watching their little boy on the playground. Oh look, he's sharing his gummy worms with another boy. Oh look, here comes the boy's dad, fussing...
View ArticleSXSW Review: A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
The topic of bullying seems to be a mysterious one. It's talked about quite often, with advocates both young and old rallying for it to be taken seriously within school systems. And yet, legislatures...
View ArticleSXSW Review: Welcome to Leith
White supremacists move to a very small North Dakota town and start buying property, encouraging their friends to do the same so they can eventually "take over" the town. You can picture the resulting...
View ArticleSXSW Review: I Dream Too Much
I Dream Too Much, which premiered at SXSW last month, brought former Austinite Katie Cokinos back to town on the festival circuit. Written and directed by Cokinos and starring Eden Brolin, Diane Ladd...
View ArticleSXSW 2015: 'Being Evel' in Austin
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Daniel Junge (Iron Ladies of Liberia) was in Austin last month for the SXSW screenings of Being Evel, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2015. The documentary...
View ArticleSXSW Review: Being Evel
"Fast, faster, and disaster"-- Johnny Knoxville, producer of Being EvelGenerations have been affected over several decades by the spirit of legendary icon Evel Knievel. As a child growing up in the...
View ArticleSXSW 2015: All Our Coverage
Updated April 7, 2015.Slackerwood was all over the SXSW Film Festival this year. Here's the list of all our guides, features, interviews, reviews and photos. read more
View ArticlePhoto Flashback: Rodriguez Pop-Up Museum at SXSW 2015
One of the many interesting events to spring up around South by Southwest in recent years is the Robert Rodriguez Museum, a pop-up gallery first appearing in 2014 in which Rodriguez exhibits pieces...
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