Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break – SXSW 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross March 24, 2021 Reviews Last year, Stranger Things’ Joe Keery delivered a career-defining performance as social media-obsessed psychopath Kurt Kunkle in Netflix’s Spree. The young man, whose meagre online presence stood in the...
Executive Order – SXSW 2021 Review Anahit Behrooz March 23, 2021 Reviews It is difficult to know where to generically place Lázaro Ramos’ Executive Order. Set in a near future where Brazil’s Black population are forcibly deported to Africa, the film’s uncanny urban realism...
Recovery – SXSW 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross March 20, 2021 Reviews The recent crop of COVID-19 inspired films has proven that banking on an ongoing global pandemic is, at its best, not a very smart idea. From mainstream titles such as Locked Down and Songbird to festival bets...
Fucking with Nobody – SXSW 2021 Review Anahit Behrooz March 19, 2021 Reviews In Dan Harmon’s cult TV classic Community, cinephile Abed Nadir is obsessed with lending every proceeding a metatextual twist. Eventually, after one too many obscure film references and being directed at...
The End of Us – SXSW 2021 Review Anahit Behrooz March 18, 2021 Reviews The End of Us is one of the first films to be produced by the recently established Buzzfeed Studios and it feels, appropriately, like an extended skit. The lighting has the flattened quality of Buzzfeed’s...
Lily Topples the World – SXSW 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross March 18, 2021 Reviews With over 3 million subscribers on her channel and more than a billion combined views, Lily Hevesh is a YouTube sensation. Her accomplishments are even more impressive when one learns she is the only female in...