‘My Brother’s Killer’ SXSW Review: A Macabre Real-Life Murder Goes Unsolved for Decades
A very cold case from 1990 gets reheated in “My Brother’s Killer.” Rachel Mason’s documentary probes the mysterious murder that year of 25-year-old William Arnold Newton, who had appeared in several gay porn films as “Billy London.” That modest notoriety, combined with the macabre nature of the deed and its unsolved status for decades, lured […]
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‘Drag’ SXSW Review: Come for the Petty Theft, Stay for the Unexpected Serial Killings
At this fraught moment in our culture, it comes as a small surprise that a movie called “Drag” is not about the terrors of “gender ideology,” nor the apparent threat to Western civilization of people dressing up in garb generally associated with the opposite sex. Instead, writer-directors Raviv Ullman and Greg Yagolnitzer’s debut feature draws […]
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While many action films before have featured strong leading women, director Vicky Jewson takes on the genre through a darkly comedic, emotionally wrought female lens in Pretty Lethal, which premiered tonight at SXSW. In the Kate Freund-penned film, five young ballerinas and their coach head to a showcase in Budapest, only to get stranded in […]
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