In Asteroid City, Wes Anderson Finally Goes To Sleep

With a dreamlike atmosphere and metatextual themes, Asteroid City is both a return to form and a major work for Wes Anderson.

Michael PerkinsJuly 5, 2023Comment

Movies to Cure your June Gloom: An Alternate Hyperreal Calendar

Still looking for a way to beat the heat by staying in the cool AC oasis of your living room? A dream team of Hyperreal contributors have come together to offer up even more movies to add to your watchlist.

Alternate CalendarHyperreal Film ClubJuly 4, 2023Comment

Have a Nice Apocalypse with Southland Tales

It’s as though Richard Kelly looked at the silliest parts of America circa 2002 to 2006 and cranked them all the way up, and society just saw fit to follow suit.

ReviewsMorgan HydeJuly 3, 2023Comment

This Week in Screenings 6/30-7/7

This week in Austin screenings 6/30-7/7

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJune 30, 2023Comment

Film Notes: Hackers

Hack the planet!

Film NotesJulia HebnerJune 29, 2023Comment

Weird Wednesdays: Avalon

A film that dares to ask the question: Do you game to live or live to game?

Alamo Weird Wednesdayremus jacksonJune 28, 2023Comment

Hangover Cinema: Sphere

Dive into the forgettable plot but dreamlike atmosphere of Sphere, the perfect thing to watch on afternoon cable when you don’t feel like doing anything else.

Mike SharpJune 27, 2023Comment

Dissonant Assemblages: Martine Syms' The African Desperate

The African Desperate is indisputably a comedy, but the visceral feelings it elicits span the spectrum. There is an uneasy undercurrent to the whole film that unmoors all of its relationships and hints at all types of violence.

AnalysisJulia HebnerJune 26, 2023Comment

This Week in Screenings 6/23-6/29

This week in Austin screenings 6/23-6/29

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJune 23, 2023Comment

I Don’t Know How to Love Him: The Queer Tragedy of Jesus Christ Superstar

Carl Anderson’s portrayal of Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar foregrounds all the passion, betrayal, and queer desire at the film’s core.

PersonalEli FischerJune 22, 2023 Comments

Weird Wednesdays: The Silencer

Do we play the game of our lives or does the game play us?

Alamo Weird WednesdayDylan SamuelJune 21, 2023Comment

Film Notes: Bound

At once a a genre exercise featuring familiar archetypes and a dazzlingly subversive debut feature, Bound heralded the arrival of two legendary and generation-defining filmmakers.

Film NotesKathryn BaileyJune 20, 2023Comment

Cobra: Celebrating the Secret Masterpiece of '80s Action Cinema

Under-discussed and under-loved in the conversations around classic ‘80s action, Cobra is meaner, and more disturbing than anything Sylvester Stallone’s contemporaries were doing at the time.

ReviewsJarett BonnerJune 19, 2023Comment

This Week in Screenings 6/16-6/22

This week in Austin screenings 6/15-6/22.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJune 16, 2023Comment

Film Notes: Serial Mom

The Pope of Trash goes mainstream… sort of, in this incredibly prescient look at true crime obsessions and serial killers.

Film FestsMorgan HydeJune 15, 2023Comment

Doc Days ’23: Fleeting Joys or; Hummingbirds Review

This is first and foremost Silvia and Estefania’s story (or at least a moment in their story). Filmed during the summer of 2019, we watch Silvia and Estefania pass the days as young people usually do: With wanderings, musings on their future and past, and lots and lots of stupid jokes and inside references with themselves and friends. Hummingbirds is a living piece. There’s no grand message or point except that of what comes out of seeing people’s lives play out on screen.

ReviewsJustin NorrisJune 14, 2023Comment

Through the Years: Scream

I’ve always been interested in the unknown lurking hidden in the shadows. I was captivated by the thrills I found in scary stories as a young boy. When I was 10 years old, I came across a horror entry with a then-unique approach and appreciation for a genre I was only beginning to understand. That movie was 1996’s Scream.

Chris ZeidJune 13, 2023Comment