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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Movie Review: “Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon”
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“Thank You Del” In 2016, most comedy nerds know who Del Close is — the visionary, troubled sage of Second City in Chicago, then Improv Olympic Theater, the long-form improv guru who trained such world-beating comedians as Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and dozens more. But most regular...
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Austin Chronicle
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SXSW Film Review: <i>The Hollywood Shorties</i>
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Doc on the story of the little people sports team is sweet and compelling
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Austin Movie Blog
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Joel Edgerton stays grounded at SXSW
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Joel Edgerton as Lucas, Michael Shannon as Roy, Jaeden Lieberher as Alton and Kirsten Dunst as Sarah in director Jeff Nichols sci-fi thriller “Midnight Special.” (Ben Rothstein) By John Laird, special to the American-Statesman Australian Joel Edgerton, star of “Black Mass,” “Warrior,...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Film Review: “Asperger’s Are Us”
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The Asperger’s Are Us comedy troupe. Credit: Alex Lehmann “Asperger’s Are Us” follows a Boston-area comedy troupe that is comprised of young men who are on the autism spectrum. Noah Britton, Ethan Finlan, Jack Hanke, and ‘New Michael’ Ingemi met each other at a summer camp and, for...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Film: Gyllenhaal shines in ‘Demolition’
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Jake Gyllenhaal as “Davis” in Demolition. Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. © 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved “Demolition” starts with a horrific scene, a car crash that kills the wife of Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful Wall Street banker. But...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Film review: ‘The Greasy Strangler’
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Brayden (Sky Elobar) feels the paternal wrath of his father Big Ronnie (Michael St Michaels). Credit: Maren Tedin What do grease, stuntcocks, disco, pink and sex have in common? Well, they all figure heavily in “The Greasy Strangler.” I have never quite experienced a film like this. Not since “Eraserhead” have I been...
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Austin Movie Blog
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Five things we learned about Jake Gyllenhaal at SXSW
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Austin filmmaker David Gordon Green and actor Jake Gyllenhaal spoke at South by Southwest Film on Saturday. Jake Gyllenhaal is a master of playing unbalanced characters. At least, that’s what a woman in the audience – who identified herself as a psychologist – said at his South by Southwest panel on...
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Austin Movie Blog
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Seven things from the SXSW “In the Dugout” panel **SPOILERS AHEAD**
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In keeping with our wall-to-wall “Everybody Wants Some” coverage, here are a few things from the “In the Dugout” panel featuring “Everybody” director Richard Linklater, “Everybody” actor and former collegiate athlete Tyler Hoechlin, Linklater’s college teammate Rick...
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Austin Chronicle
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SXSW Film Review: <i>Beware the Slenderman</i>
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Doc examines notorious teen stabbing
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Austin Movie Blog
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Five things from Ellen Page and Ian Daniel’s SXSW panel on their Viceland show “Gaycation”
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In a chat moderated by NPR journalist Laura Sydell, Ellen Page and Ian Daniel discussed their Viceland TV show “Gaycation,” a travel show in which they examine LGBTQ communities in countries such as Japan, Brazil and Jamaica. Here are a few highlights from that discussion: Page and Daniel met eight years...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Film review: ‘Trapped’ goes deep into abortion clinic battle
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A frame of June Ayers and clinic volunteers from Dawn Porter’s documentary “Trapped.” Credit: Chris Hilleke) Documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter was in Jackson, Miss., in 2013 when she read a newspaper article about how the entire Magnolia State was down to one abortion clinic because of a series of...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Film 2016: ‘Sing Street’ review
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“Sing Street” is a feel-good New Wave/pop coming-of-age love story. Conor (Ferdia-Walsh Pino) dreams big and after transferring to a more rough- and-tumble school where a bully lurks at every corner and black shoes are required. He falls in love with Raphina (Lucy Boynton), who’s one year his senior who lives...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Film Review: “Everybody Wants Some”
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“Everybody Wants Some” As enjoyable as moments in Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some” are — and there are plenty in this very well-acted, well-shot, elegantly edited comedy — how you feel about it by the end might revolve around how you feel about spending nearly two...
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Austin Chronicle
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SXSW Film Review: <i>Vice Principals</i>
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Danny McBride and co. continue to examine toxic masculinity
