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Meet the Meat Makers
If you live in Texas, you probably love barbecue, or at least know someone who does. Still, most of us has never heard the stories behind it. For the Love of Meat, a new documentary by filmmakers Jeff Jones, Matthew Johnson, Matt Wallis, and Brandon Gonzales, sets out to correct that course.

2:00PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Spencer Beghtol Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Shovel Buddies
Despite the focused efforts of executive producer/star Bella Thorne to deepen it, Shovel Buddies is a shallow small-town drama that strives for a dark quirkiness, but ends up burying any authenticity with tackiness.

1:45PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Sean L. Malin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Bandit
Director Jesse Moss returns to SXSW with this turbo-charged doc about Seventies Hollywood legends Burt Reynolds, his best friend and stuntman Hal Needham, and how the pair of these two loose cannons dreamed up, financed, and shot one of the most authentically kickass road movies of all time: 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit.

1:15PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Tony Robbins curses like a construction worker caught in traffic. Tony Robbins calls men out for being weaklings. Tony Robbins holds damaged people (male and female) in his arms and offers comfort. Tony Robbins is the dictionary definition of charisma.

1:00PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Joe O'Connell Read More | Comment »

Dear Glutton: SXSW Edition Day One
Dear Glutton, I'm in town for SXSW, and while I am super excited to see Austin I'm also FREAKING OUT because there are so many cool things to see/hear/do/eat. Help me! – Overwhelmed

12:30PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Emily Beyda Read More | Comment »

An English Spaceship Lands at SXSW
Every teenager feels like they're on their own, and that's what unifies them. It's a contradiction that dances through Alex Taylor's Spaceship, which debuted this year at SXSW.

12:00PM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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SXSW Film Review: Preacher
Whether by dint of marketing mandate (American comics for American readers) or ancestral DNA (comics as a fundamental American art form), the Nineties “British Invasion” of comics writers, on whom early DC Comics’ Vertigo line (dark fantasy for mature readers) staked its success, made it their business explaining America to itself.

10:30AM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Jacob Clifton Read More | Comment »

Robert Plant Crowns Austin Music Awards
Led Zeppelin oracle Robert Plant will perform on Wednesday at the Austin Music Awards in a special closing segment honoring KUTX’s late Twine Time host Paul Ray. It will be the singer’s only South by Southwest appearance.

9:00AM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Kevin Curtin Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Claire in Motion
Claire (Betsy Brandt, Breaking Bad) has it together - a teaching position at a university, a family, a good life. But when her husband, Paul (Chris Beetem), goes missing, she’s left alone to process his disappearance. A task that grows harder as the search unearths aspects of her spouse she never knew.

1:15AM Tue. Mar. 15, 2016, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

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