The genius of the The Blair Witch Project was it was all tell, no show. When director Eduardo Sanchez returns to the found footage genre for Exists, the beast is right in the camera’s lens.

While on its surface Wild Canaries is a comedic murder mystery, it’s also about the anxiety that accompanies commitment, New York real-estate politics, and a little bit of sexual confusion.

The problem with two guys from ESPN getting together to talk to each other about ESPN for an hour is that no one’s there to check them on their ass-kissing when they ass-kiss their way through their own apologies about their ass-kissing.

For the dawning disillusionment of adulthood that comes with committing to a path in life, such as staring down the barrel of marriage to a Hall & Oates-worthy rich girl, and working in an industry about which he is no longer sure, hitch a ride with Craig (Harry Lloyd) as he traverses the modern American South in search of one last look at life.

Mutual admiration societies can be off-putting, but this is a club you want to be a part of. This compelling fly-on-the-wall documentary spies in on two longtime friends, Austin's Richard Linklater and the experimental landscape/human portraitist James Benning, as they chew over their careers, passions, and influences on each other.

Dr. Rebecca Gomperts is committed to the wisdom of women.

For his ninth feature, Prince Avalanche and Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green – recently honored at the Texas Film Awards – returned to the woods of Central Texas to tell a heartbreaking story of the eponymous forestry foreman as he struggles with alcoholism, loneliness, a revenge-seeking archnemesis, and a criminal record.

If the science fiction about 3-D printing has always veered toward the dystopian, the reality doesn't do much to go off-script.

Last year, we asked Chronicle comic artist Jen Sorensen to sketch some of her favorite sights from Downtown during South by Southwest Interactive.