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Last night I went to an early preview screening of Twilight at the Bob Bullock IMAX Theatre. It was an Austin Film Society event, and Richard Linklater was the MC for the evening, as he is one of the founders of AFS. The director, Catherine Hardwicke, was also in attendance. She did work as Linklater’s [...]

So, my first Blu-Ray on the PS3?
Hitman.
I thought an action packed movie would be good to test out the audio & video. While the thought was a decent one, my execution was sorely lacking.  I should have picked something I’d seen before, or well, anything else. This movie was horrible. This was almost as bad [...]

Blah… That was my last SXSW movie of 2008. I started typing this March 15th, the last day of SXSW, and much like my SXSW 2008 experience, it petered out. So, here it is, so I can continue on with other things. Sorry about it’s incompleteness.
The last day of the film fest. What to see, [...]

Yah. I was tired. So, I actually did not see one SXSW movie today. I did watch movies though. As weird as that might be. I wasn’t in the mood to be crammed in a theater with a bunch of people, but I was still in the mood to watch cheezy flix. I went to [...]

As the SXSW days go by, I am finding it harder and harder to make myself go to any films. My original plan for today’s filmgoing was 5 movies. I made it to 2, and one of them wasn’t on the plan at all. So, the day began with me missing my first film that [...]

So, got home early-ish last night, and yet still went to bed late cuz I was playing on the Mac, natch. I also knew my first movie wasn’t going to be until 1:30pm, so no big thang. Well that all went to shot at about 6am when I woke up with a lovely case of [...]

Let me begin by saying, I’m slightly disappointed in SXSW this year. There just seemed to be more great narratives last year than this. And there seem to be a ton more documentaries at SXSW this year. I can appreciate a good doc, but I am a narrative person. I tell you this because I [...]

I was running just a smidge late, but I made it to The Lost Coast at the Alamo Ritz. It was my first movie at the Ritz for SXSW. I ended up with a rather bad seat. But oh well. That’ll teach me for being late. The movie is about three high school friends [...]

Sunday — I met up with Roberto at the Carver Center in East Austin for the free panel about Getting Your Foot in the Door. Our film class instructor was one of three on the panel. So, we went in a display of support and if we learned something new, excellent. The panelists included Kat, [...]

I started the morning with Reel Shorts 1 & 2. I won’t get into any crazy detail, but the short (teehee) of it is I liked Reel Shorts 1, and Reel Shorts 2 was just eh. Those were at Alamo South Lamar.
I left Reel Shorts 2 slightly early in order to make it to the [...]