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SXSW Gets Mesmerized by First Look at Robert Rodriguez's Hypnotic
The Austin filmmaker blows the roof off the Paramount
"...That inspired the script for Hypnotic, which he worked on for the next..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panel Recap: The COHERENCE Effect: Manifesting Shatter Belt
Superfan Patton Oswalt picks the brain behind the cult classic
"...if I get rid of the crew and the script,” Byrkit laughed off during his panel. Coherence notoriously didn’t..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Review: John Wick: Chapter 4
Baba Yaga is back in his loudest, craziest adventure yet
"...The script by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch understands that the..."

March 13, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The Long Game
Bordertown golf story filled with humanity and Cheech
"...holds this story dear. Aside from co-writing a wonderful script, Quintana cast a behind the scenes trust circle to..."

March 13, 2023 SXSW Post by Jessi Cape

Gallagher, "Teen Wolff" Power Austin FC to First Road Win of 2023
ATXFC defeats Real Salt Lake, 2-1
"...The first came off the red-hot left foot of..."

March 12, 2023 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

SXSW Film Review: Bottoms
Seligman and Sennot re-team for a wicked lesbian John Hughes riff
"...a pedantic way. The more serious notes underpinning the script, nods to the darker side of being a teen..."

March 12, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

SXSW Film Review: Late Bloomers
The kindness of strangers creates beauty, growth, and laughs
"...Anna Greenfield’s script, though the dialogue is occasionally tainted by colors a..."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Contemporary Prometheus in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Bomani J. Story retells Frankenstein as a Black horror
"...long time coming. “I've been holding on to the script since 2018, but I had the idea since like..."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

Killing Nazis for Funsies in The Wrath of Becky
Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote unleash teen hell in the splatter satire
"...fun.' And he goes, 'Cool. We don't have a script, we want you to write it, and we need..."

March 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Action-comedy rolls a critical hit
"...Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who also wrote the script with Michael Gilio, from a story by Gilio and..."

March 10, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Reinventing the Fantasy Movie With SXSW Opening Night's Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Writers/directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein on dungeons, dragons, and heists
"...an unceremonious fashion”). While several versions of the Dungeons & Dragons script existed before they came on board, the duo immediately..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Supernatural Horror Brooklyn 45 Wrestles With Good People Committing Terrible Sins
Ted Geoghegan conjures the ghosts of World War II
"...If there was a simple descriptor for Ted Geoghegan, it might be "period horror director."..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Review: Austin Playhouse's Nightbird
Timely treatise on the space between Black America's past, present, and future
"...which hits home around half-time. So dense is the script and so rapid is its presentation that there is..."

March 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Late Urruti Winner Powers Austin FC to First Win of Season
The Verde and Black defeat CF Montreál, 1-0
"...The late breakthrough came off a picture-perfect counter attack...."

March 5, 2023 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

Trusting Your Gut: Texas Film Awards Honoree Michael de Luca on a Life in Cinema
From New Line to Warners, the exec discusses his career
"...director, and either has the idea or has a script, goes to try to find financing if they're not..."

March 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sloppy Austin FC Drops Season Opener to Debutantes St. Louis
Wolff: “We opened the door and they took full advantage of it”
"...By first half stoppage time, it seemed like Austin..."

Feb. 26, 2023 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

When You Get to the Forest Gets to the Drafthouse
Animator Eric Power brings his new, mythical feature back home
"...The script started over a decade ago as a folder on..."

Feb. 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Of an Age
Queer sexual awakening drama is depressingly familiar
"...becomes more puzzling in director/screenwriter Stolevski’s increasingly less articulate script is Adam’s motivation in all of this, particularly given..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

2023 Oscar-Nominated Short Films – Animation
Selections prove (yet again) that animation is for everyone
"...Adapted from former Austinite and Ralph Breaks the Internet scriptwriter Pamela Ribon’s 2017 memoir, Notes to Boys: And Other..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: The Play That Goes Wrong
Physics and farce join forces to surprisingly hilarious effect in this Georgetown production
"...Not everything in the script or onstage works – and, quite frankly, two acts..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Reindeers and Writing: Alison Brie and Dave Franco on Somebody I Used to Know
The married creative couple take a new angle on the rom-com
"...Not that Brie can blame the scriptwriter for putting her in this predicament. After all, she..."

Feb. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

She Came From the Woods
Not another 1980s summer camp horror homage
"...It's the story that lets the movie down. (The script is credited to Erik and Carson Bloomquist.) Part of..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Sharper
A stylishly smart and satisfying con artist drama
"...outlandish narrative indifferent to reasonable plausibility. The episodically structured script by screenwriters Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka is a..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Review: The Filigree Theatre's Fire in Dreamland
This compelling drama ignites but doesn't blaze
"...So, too, does the execution of the script's call for enacted jump cuts, cutaways, and moments on..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Outwaters' Experiment in Terror
Writer/director/star Robbie Banfitch draws inspiration from found footage and arthouse forebears
"...friends and collaborators, shot the film without a full script. "We did wing it, in an intentional way. But..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Alejandra Martinez

The Amazing Maurice
Can this tale of magical rodents beat the Pratchett adaptation curse?
"...your Ankh from your Morpork. Maybe it's that the script by Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek) comes closer than most..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night
MMORPG anime puts the grind into dungeon grinding
"...from the first film, which had less of a script and more of a player's handbook. Humorless and clunky,..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Power of Platonic Intimacy in Close
Director Lukas Dhont explores tender moments of boyhood in his new drama
"...change in their lives, which Dhont (who co-wrote the script with Angelo Tijssens) sees as being rooted in the..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Overcoming Fear With Deon Taylor
How covid and the George Floyd protests shaped his new film
"...process of making the movie. Mid-2020, Taylor wrote the script, assembled his cast and crew, and assembled one of..."

Feb. 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Shotgun Wedding
J.Lo and Josh Duhamel mix matrimony and mayhem in this tepid rom-com
"...pitch that could have been elevated with a clever script with a more consistent sense of humor and writing..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

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