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Chris Smith is a technician when it comes to unraveling true stories that are far stranger than fiction. It started over two decades ago with the wonderful “American Movie” and has developed over the years through...

It’s true that film festival movies with unique concepts tend to get all the attention. At SXSW, where the lineup is typically dominated by comic, scary or novel storytelling, a movie needs to do more than...

This South By Southwest Film Festival included three films from three singular women with personal connections to the stories they felt should be told. In her film “Slash/Back,” Nyla Innuksuk uses genre to explore internalized shame...

“Isn’t it great to be in a movie theater?”  So Leonard Maltin kicked off a tribute evening to Nicole Kidman and Javier Barden at the 37th edition of the Santa Barbara Film Festival, which ran from...

The model for FOX’s “Welcome to Flatch”—which premieres both on network on March 17th, and on Hulu, where seven episodes will drop that same day—is pretty obvious. Flatch, Ohio feels just over the hill from Pawnee,...

Halfway through Ti West’s “X,” a ragtag gang of porno filmmakers, including high-minded director RJ (Owen Campbell) and his shy girlfriend/sound girl Lorraine (Jenna Ortega) face a challenge. Lorraine’s been watching their movie’s stars perform sex...

There are familiar faces on the indie movie scene who pop up at film festivals like SXSW regularly. The very presence of people like Jim Gaffigan, Patton Oswalt, and Allison Brie can often go a long way...

The seering political documentary “Split At The Root,” which premiered at SXSW this past weekend, follows the work of ordinary women who band together to support and advocate for asylum-seeking families torn apart in the wake...

Early in HBO Max’s breezy, effervescent new series “Minx,” opportunistic porn mag producer Doug Lanetti (Jake Johnson) breaks down his philosophy of inserting full-frontal male nudity in Joyce’s (Ophelia Lovibond) feminist magazine: It’s like hiding your...

There’s such a fun energy in the room when crowds fueled on barbecue and whiskey gather long after the sun has set in Austin, Texas to watch a new genre film. Festivals have always been a...