yes i misspelled camarones but it's still yummy so who's the real winner here

POV: you're about to drown your sorrows about the season finale of THE PITT with coctel de camerones 🇲🇽🦐😭

good morning! i wrote about the ethereal melancholy and sensuality of shinji sōmai's LOVE HOTEL hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/pink...

good morning! i wrote about the ethereal melancholy and sensuality of shinji sōmai's LOVE HOTEL hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/pink...

hi austin friends! it's self promo time, but if you'd like to nominate yours truly for best film critic in austin, today's the last day to write my name in 💜 vote.austinchronicle.com/politics-and...

reposting for the midnight crowd 💓

i got to cover @austinfilm.bsky.social's excellent pink cuts series for the folks at the hyperreal film club journal! my first piece is about the exuberant PINK CUT: LOVE ME HARD, LOVE ME DEEP 💞 hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/love...

big year at the movies for power hungry grubs named titus

COOKIE QUEENS: truly effervescent! a beautiful examination of girlhood through a specific lens. watching the girls go on their journeys of self-resilience and determination was amazing. the kids are alright :'-) #SXSW26

SXSW Film Review: Sender • The Austin Chronicle Whenever I order something online, it never dawns on me that I could be letting anything through my door and into my home. We take it for granted that the products we receive will be exactly what we o...

SENDER is a compelling, tender thriller about mystery packages, addiction, and recovery. lower & dastmalchian are the MVPs of this one for me!

read more in the @austinchronicle.bsky.social #SXSW26 www.austinchronicle.com/screens/sxsw...

SXSW Film Review: My Brother’s Killer • The Austin Chronicle In the early 1990s, the remains of Billy London, a gay man who had worked in the adult film industry, were found in a dumpster in West Hollywood. This grim end to a brilliant and vibrant life had long...

MY BROTHER'S KILLER is an engaging doc that gets thorny when it doesn't grapple with the tension between inherently unjust systems and the desire for progress in law enforcement.

i wrote about it for @austinchronicle.bsky.social #SXSW26 www.austinchronicle.com/screens/sxsw...

SXSW Film Review: Erupcja • The Austin Chronicle Sometimes, people come into your life and sow nothing but chaos. Like a comet blazing across a dark sky, or a jet of fire spewing from the mouth of a volcano, they come in hot, leaving something in th...

i mostly liked the slight, chaotic ERUPCJA. it's a movie about coincidences, friendship, and fate that is at its best when it uses colors and aesthetics to cement its mood.

my @austinchronicle.bsky.social review is live! #SXSW26 www.austinchronicle.com/screens/sxsw...

more writing will be coming later today, but here's a repost for the sunday morning crowd:

good morning from my cinephile breakfast of champs on day 4 of #SXSW! 🍿🎬

greetings from #SXSW day 3 🎬🤠

SXSW Film Review: Baby/Girls • The Austin Chronicle Throughout Baby/Girls, the latest documentary from filmmakers Alyse Walsh and Jackie Jesko, the tension between the political and the personal is impossible to escape, even with a cinema vérité approa...

my first dispatch out of #SXSW is all about BABY/GIRLS, a doc about teen pregnancy in a post-Dobbs world that can be empathetic, but opaque.

my @austinchronicle.bsky.social review is live! www.austinchronicle.com/screens/sxsw...

hi from day 2 of #SXSW 🤠

wrote about THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD, a compelling but sometimes frustrating watch.

my sundance review is up: hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/olde...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Happy IWD.

HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! is a bittersweet portrait of grief held together by rinko kikuchi's masterful performance hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/ha-c...

BARBARA FOREVER is a compelling documentary and an essential work of preservation hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/barb...

first up, i wrote about the archival pleasures of PUBLIC ACCESS hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/publ...

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happy friday! i've been a bit busy lately but more sundance dispatches of mine have been released so a writing spam is incoming

i am figuring out my schedule still and will be sending out pitch emails, but i just wanted to put it out there that i will be at SXSW if editors need help rounding out their coverage

favorite first watches of january (late, i know, but whatever!):

• THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982), d. don bluth
• MOUSEHUNT (1997), d. gore verbinski
• CAST AWAY (2000), d. robert zemeckis
• HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001), d. john cameron mitchell

In "TheyDream," One Artist’s Losses Fuel His Creativity Sundance doc "TheyDream" painstakingly resurrects the filmmaker's lost loved ones. It's almost too much to bear.

in my latest sundance dispatch, i wrote about the mixed media doc, THEYDREAM. it's a compelling look at how one artist memorializes their loved ones through art. emotionally, though, it is almost too much to bear. latinamedia.co/theydream/

In "TheyDream," One Artist’s Losses Fuel His Creativity Sundance doc "TheyDream" painstakingly resurrects the filmmaker's lost loved ones. It's almost too much to bear.

in my latest sundance dispatch, i wrote about the mixed media doc, THEYDREAM. it's a compelling look at how one artist memorializes their loved ones through art. emotionally, though, it is almost too much to bear. latinamedia.co/theydream/

getting ready for SXSW and feeling like this again

"The Legend of Luis Valdez" Illuminates Chicano History (and Its Limitations) Even if there’s not room for more nuance, at least "American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez" can help more people learn Chicano history.

wrote about my complicated feelings about chicanismo in my sundance review of AMERICAN PACHUCO: THE LEGEND OF LUIS VALDEZ latinamedia.co/legend-of-lu...