by elinkstoday | Nov 6, 2024 | Film Festival
Daniel Durant starred in the Oscar-winning film CODA as Leo Rossi, a teenager whose sister is the only hearing member of the family and featured international filmmaker Eugenio Derbez (Instructions Not Included) as the music teacher. CODA (2021) won three Academy...
by elinkstoday | Nov 4, 2024 | Film
It felt like “Christmas in July” when I was offered an opportunity to view this forthcoming holiday film. It was (and still is) hot for the season here in Texas, but after viewing the film, it left me in better spirits all around. I have not read the international...
by elinkstoday | Nov 1, 2024 | Film Festival
This stop animation film is a drama about a brother and sister (twins) who lived with their father after their mother’s passing. They are separated by the agency who takes them in after their father passed away in their youth, changing their lives in a most harsh way....
by elinkstoday | Oct 28, 2024 | Film Festival
The film is good overall, but there are issues that I had with it from the beginning. J.C. Doler’s first feature made its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival, playing in their Dark Matters Features section. There will be a second screening during the...
by elinkstoday | Oct 28, 2024 | Film Festival
If you do a quick search for the short film Special Delivery on the internet, you will find various films with the title, but the one screening at the Austin Film Festival is the short romantic comedy from writer/director Emily Everhard. The film was a finalist for...
by elinkstoday | Oct 28, 2024 | Film Festival
Directed and written by Dallas-native Angela Gulner, The Beldham arrives at the Austin Film Festival for the North American Premiere. In this psychological horror/family drama, there is not a moment when I felt I could turn away from the screen to follow what was...
by elinkstoday | Oct 25, 2024 | Film
In Venom: The Last Dance, Eddie/Venom (Tom Hardy) starts out the film seaside and away from the regular hometown in this, the final film in the trilogy. Eddie and Venom may be trying to hide out, but they stick out like sore thumbs. The bartender does not know what...
by elinkstoday | Oct 25, 2024 | Film
Written, directed and produced by Augustus Meleo Bernstein, At the Gates is a drama turned thriller when a wealthy family has a change, and this is creating some changes in their economic status. Marianne Barris (Miranda Otto) has had domestic help for what seems to...
by elinkstoday | Oct 24, 2024 | Film Festival
I have not been familiar about the “desaparecidos” in Argentina all my life living in Texas, but it has been about twenty years or so when I worked with another publication. I was first approached by someone with the history of what had happened in Argentina a few...
by elinkstoday | Oct 24, 2024 | Film Festival
The Austin Film Festival runs from October 24th through October 31st in various venues and includes feature and short films. The following is a selection of shorts offered during the festival and the full schedule will provide the details of the venues and times the...
