This is home base for my adventures in Austin this year. Comments and links to reviews will appear in the schedule as the week proceeds. Pre-Festival The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer) C+ Provocative conversation piece is interesting insofar as it offers a glimpse into how mass-murdering psychopaths view their own crimes, but it goes on [...]
There’s never enough time — and less and less every year, as both responsibilities that swallow it and choices for how to spend it seem to keep growing exponentially. And that changes one’s outlook on things. A week or so ago I went to see Texas Chainsaw, having read some reasonably favorable reviews from some [...]
Blurbs and links to longer reviews to appear below; as with SXSW this year, the goal is to write at least something for everything I see. Schedule tentative and aspirational. Wednesday, July 25 Reign of Assassins (Su Chao-Bin) C+ [I tend to have an attention span of about an hour for these traditional kung fu flicks, [...]
