by elinkstoday | Jul 22, 2024 | Film Festival
The HollyShorts Film Festival celebrates with a star-studded 2024 line-up featuring shorts with Zoe Saldana, Academy® Award winner Riz Ahmed, Thomasin McKenzie, Ed Harris, Bella Thorne, Sam Raimi, Academy® Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis, and Noomi Rapace Some of the...
by elinkstoday | Jul 17, 2024 | Film
As many film fans may be aware, there is a 1996 film titled Twister, directed by Jan De Bont. It starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton and according to the synopsis were “on the brink of divorce.” Neither of these stars are in the 2024 film, Twisters, and the two leads...
by elinkstoday | Jul 17, 2024 | Film Festival
Nicolás Molina’s “Pirópolis” is set in Valparaiso, Chile, about the wildfires that have become recurrent and more and more frequent. Those of us living in the U.S.A. are so consumed with the news of the wildfires in the western part of the country, it is likely that...
by elinkstoday | Jul 15, 2024 | Film Festival, Music
This review ran initially as part of the SXSW Film & Television Festival coverage. Alamo Drafthouse is now offering this film in theaters as of July 9th. I look forward to viewing films from the 24 BEATS PER SECOND category at the SXSW Film & Television...
by elinkstoday | Jul 12, 2024 | Film
I missed this film at the SXSW Film & Television Festival last year and was glad for the opportunity to view it as it was released in select cities (theatrically in Austin at the Drafthouse South Lamar). Reading the synopsis gave me a general idea of what to...
by elinkstoday | Jul 12, 2024 | Film
Director Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon may be a rom com set during the Space Race over five decades ago, but this feature film is so much more. It is not only about the two lead actors being “over the moon” for each other. Some of us lived during the events...
by elinkstoday | Jul 10, 2024 | Film
Civil War was available in theaters earlier this year and now the harrowing adventure arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray™, DVD, and Digital from Lionsgate. The nonstop action focuses on a team of military-embedded war correspondents racing against time to reach the White...
by elinkstoday | Jul 9, 2024 | Film
After a successful festival run, Perera Pictures & Fisky Enterprises are releasing the documentary titled Paul & Trisha: The Art of Fluidity featuring Paul Whitehead & Trisha Van Cleef through VOD. The film is written, directed and produced by Fia Perera,...
by elinkstoday | Jul 5, 2024 | Film, Film Festival
This is a film I do recall from the festival last year – first because of what is seen after little more than 30 minutes – and some of the unexpected comedic moments that had me laugh out loud. The filmmaker creates a story that takes the protagonist on an unexpected...
by elinkstoday | Jul 5, 2024 | Film
If someone has not seen the writer/director Ti West horror films, X and Pearl, then there may be some confusion as to who MaXXXine is and where she came from. The trilogy began with X, a violent slasher released here in Austin during the 2022 SXSW Film &...
