Review by Cole Clay When 2019 is all said and done, there will be many good movies in the rearview. Some will make us laugh, some will be spooky, and some may show us a part of the world that exists only in our dreams. The scrappy indie THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON, from...
Review by Preston Barta THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE Rated R, 104 minutes. Director: Riley Stearns Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots, Steve Terada, Phillip Andre Botello, David Zellner and Leland Orser AUSTIN – There’s a moment in Riley Stearns’ THE...
Review by Jacquelin Hipes It’s a question most of us have likely posed to ourselves at one time or another: when the end comes would you rather face it head-on, or trundle forward in blissful ignorance? The answer probably takes into account a mixture of the practical...
By James Lindorf This past weekend, fans piled into the Indianapolis Convention Center for the 6th annual Indy PopCon. This year’s celebrity guests include a Shield Agent, Henry Simmons (Mac), as well as a pair of Super Troopers, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske. They...
Review by Jacqueline Hipes Women don’t often fare well in Shakespeare’s plays. Although written with as much dimension as the men, they rarely find themselves in a better position at the end of the play than the one they held at the start. At best they find themselves...
Greetings again from the darkness. Hail Satan! This is definitely the first screening I’ve ever been to where those are the words the director used to introduce her film. Director Chelsea Stardust is quite passionate about her film, and most of the audience shared in...
Greetings again from the darkness. One of the benefits of attending a close-to-home film festival is getting the opportunity to see the work of local people that we are familiar with. Writer-Director Daniel Laabs has been active in the Dallas film scene for years, and...
Greetings again from the darkness. A world without music from The Beatles? It’s hard to “imagine”. It’s not as simple as never having their classics played on the radio, as the number of musicians influenced by their work is roughly the size of the list of every...
Greetings again from the darkness. Festivals are often programmed with many films that will never be screened outside of a festival environment … low-budget passion projects to be viewed only by those with an appreciation (bordering on obsession) of deep cut and...
Greetings again from the darkness. Should I stay or should I go? Only it’s not really your choice. Some bizarre ritual, or rite of passage (or no passage), is held to determine whether one is selected to venture into the world, or instead resigned to remaining a local...