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The 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival kicked off Friday, March 7 in Austin with world and North American premieres of movies in 11 sections, TV shows in three sections and several short film and virtual reality programs.

This year’s festival launched with opening-night film Another Simple Favor reteaming Paul Feig, Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, with other notable world premiere titles including Chad Hartigan’s The Threesome, Kate Mara‘s two entries The Astronaut and The Dutchman (the latter also starring André Holland), the Ben Affleck-Jon Bernthal sequel The Accountant 2, the Nicole Kidman-starring Holland and Death of a Unicorn starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega.

Check out Deadline’s reviews recaps below as films premiere at the fest, which runs through March 15, and click on the titles for the full reviews.

The Accountant 2 ‘The Accountant 2’

Section: Headliner

Director: Gavin O’Connor

Cast: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Daniella Pineda,...

One of the unexpected pleasures of this year’s vast SXSW slate of movies is Bunny, a kind of zany comic throwback to extreme indie New York City-centric movies that find a manic energy and rhythm that lets them exist on their own breathless cloud, with a cast of wacky characters moving in and out of frame in action that takes place almost entirely in an East Village tenement, or outside just in front of it.

In some ways Bunny is an oddball cross of Weekend at Bernie’s, Abbott & Costello, Cheech & Chong and a new-age Marx Brothers movie, plus films of the Safdie brothers (particularly Uncut Gems) all the way back to Hal Ashby’s wonderful directorial debut with 1970’s The Landlord, another NYC tenement movie I kept thinking about watching this stew. Throw them all into a blender and you might have something resembling what first-time director...

Plot: After his younger second wife leaves him and enters a 90-day rehab program, Los Angeles art dealer Andy Goodrich seeks out his adult pregnant daughter Grace for help with raising his nine-year-old twins.

Review: I love Michael Keaton movies. In the 1980s and 1990s, Keaton was the ubiquitous leading man in everything from comedies and dramas to his game-changing turn in Tim Burton’s Batman. In the early 2000s, Keaton’s roles dried up a bit, aside from voice roles in the Cars and Toy Story franchises. After his awards-worthy role in 2014’s Birdman, Keaton had a resurgence with acclaimed films like The Founder, Spotlight, and The Trial of the Chicago 7 to a very different comic book character in Spider-Man: Homecoming. After reprising his Batman role in last year’s The Flash and making his directorial debut with Knox Goes Away, he resurrected his iconic Beetlejuice this year...

Andy Goodrich (Michael Keaton) is edging toward his seventh decade of life when his wife, Naomi (Laura Benanti), announces that she’s checked into a Malibu rehab facility for 90 days. She also lets him know she wants a divorce. Andy, whose Los Angeles gallery of many years is on the verge of shuttering, is now facing the reality of needing to step up as a parent for his nine-year-old twins (Vivien Lyra Blair and Jacob Kopera).

These are the rather mundane inciting incidents of Goodrich, and writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer thankfully doesn’t juice them up with too much schematic plotting. Her second feature is an easygoing character study that’s stripped of the sitcom-y schtick of her first, 2017’s Home Again. At its best, Goodrich makes the canny choice to neither condemn its protagonist as a toxic villain nor redeem him as a good-hearted saint. He’s just Goodrich.

Andy...

"This is not your choice, you're not staying here. Not another word. Get your things." A highly-rated short film is now available to watch online after playing on the film festival circuit for the last few years. Safe is an engaging 16-minute short film written and directed by Ian Barling - it originally premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Critics Week sidebar, and played at many of others including Naples, Nashville, and Rome Independent. On a cold winter night in Atlantic City, the manager of a defunct casino must reckon with his parental failures when his unruly son comes to him in desperate need of help out of an illicit bind. Safe stars acclaimed actors Will Patton and Philip Ettinger, with Noa Fisher, Cindy Katz, and Skipp Sudduth. Patton is one of the most underrated actors in the biz, and it's always fascinating watching him. There's always something...

Eva Evans‘s cause of death has been revealed.

The New York City-based TikTok star, known for her Club Rat series on Prime Video, appears to have died by suicide at the age of 29, via TMZ.

Keep reading to find out more…

Law enforcement sources told the outlet that a friend found Eva‘s body late Saturday night (April 20). The friend reportedly had a key to Eva‘s apartment and when they went to check on her, they found her hanging.

The friend then reportedly called 911, and told police they didn’t know Eva was depressed or emotionally disturbed. She was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene, and there were no unusual injuries or sign of a struggle.

A note was apparently left behind. An official cause of death hasn’t been ruled on just yet, and is pending toxicology results.

Eva wrote, starred and directed a comedy series called...

Eva Evans has sadly passed away.

The native New York City TikTok star and rising actress has died, her sister confirmed on Sunday (April 21).

“yesterday my family received news that our sweet, fabulous, creative, caring, hilarious Eva, my beautiful sister, has died,” her sister Lila wrote on social media.

Keep reading to find out more…

“after 24 hours, i still find myself in a constant cycle of denial and acceptance, so i know how unbelievable and hard to process this news will be. we will be holding a celebration of Eva this coming Tuesday, 4/23, in the evening in lower Manhattan…i wish i had Eva here now to refer to because she would have better words and know how to say what i don’t.”

“i am keeping this brief, so we can plan for the next few days, but you’ll be hearing a lot more from me on how...

The experiences of the Black community across America, both currently and historically, are well-suited to fit the conventions of horror storytelling in movies, particularly when they’re told from a woman’s perspective. Led by a strong female-led cast and crew, the new thriller, ‘Master,’ powerfully investigates the country’s treatment of its Black citizens in an emotional […]

The post SXSW 2022 Video Interview: Mariama Diallo, Zoe Renee and Noa Fisher Talk Master (Exclusive) appeared first on Shockya.com.

Inspiration can be incidental. For filmmaker Mariama Diallo, the writer and director of the new allegorical horror movie, Master, it could be described as faintly insidious. That’s at least one way to think about the larger social implications of her chance encounter with an old professor from her days at Yale University.

“I ran into my master out on the streets of New York a few years after I graduated,” Diallo explains now, referring to how faculty who live in the residential dormitories with Yale undergraduates are called ‘masters’ of their charges.

“And I greeted him the way I always had,” Diallo continues, “which starts with the title ‘Master.’ And in the streets of New York City that’s a weird thing to call an older white man, and it became immediately clear to me that I had unknowingly taken on this very, very strange dynamic, this kind of...

Master Review — Master (2022) Film Review from the 44th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Mariama Diallo and starring Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Julia Nightingale, Talia Ryder, Ella Hunt, Noa Fisher, Anna Van Patten, D.C. Anderson, Angela Grovey, Will Hochman, John Kroft, Amber Gray, Bruce Altman, Talia Balsam, Kara Young, Emmett [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Master: Regina Hall Excels in a Heavy Horror Film with a College Setting [Sundance 2022]...

"I think this is a cover-up." Gravitas Ventures + Kamikaze Dogfight have revealed the official trailer for an indie psychological thriller film titled Dashcam, the feature directorial debut of a producer / filmmaker named Christian Nilsson. Not to be confused with the new found footage horror feature also titled Dashcam from filmmaker Rob Savage, which recently premiered at TIFF. Two different films. Inspired by Antonioni's Blow-Up, Brian De Palma’s Blow Out, and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, this film is about a small time video editor at a local news channel who is inadvertently given dashcam footage from a routine stop that results in multiple deaths. But everything is not as it seems. Is there a conspiracy or is something else going on? This stars Eric Tabach, with Zachary Booth, Scott Aiello, Noa Fisher, and Giullian Yao Gioiello. Doesn't look like there is anything to see here, just playing on the usual thrills of conspiracy.

“Betty” has been canceled after two seasons at HBO, Variety has confirmed exclusively.

Created by Crystal Moselle, “Betty” is a teen comedy series based on Moselle’s critically-acclaimed 2018 film “Skate Kitchen.” It follows the lives of an all-girl group of skateboarders as they navigate the male-dominated sport.

“We will not be moving forward with a third season of ‘Betty,'” HBO said in a statement. “We are very grateful for the collaboration with Crystal and our incredible cast — their fearless exploration of the world of New York City’s skate culture will remain a beautiful emblem of friendship and community.”

“Betty” stars Dede Lovelace as Janay, Kabrina Adams as Honeybear,Nina Moran as Kirt, Ajani Russell as Indigo and Rachelle Vinberg as Camille. It was renewed for a second season in June 2020, which premiered on June 11, 2021. The series received generally favorable reviews, with its first season earning the title of...

MediaPro CEO

Spain’s Mediapro Group has upped Laura Fernández Espeso to the role of Chief Executive Officer at its Mediapro Studio, which produces and distributes content. She has been with the company for a decade and was previously Corporate and Television Director. In the new role she will direct the management and strategy of all the productions and production companies integrated under the Mediapro Studio umbrella. Recent films out of Mediapro include Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival and Official Competition with Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas.

Dascham Thriller

Exclusive: Filmmaker Christian Nilsson and YouTuber Eric Tabach have partnered with production co Kamikaze Dogfight to finance Nilsson’s feature-length directorial debut Dashcam. Nilsson previously directed short film Unsubscribe, shot over Zoom, which gained prominence for topping the U.S. box office chart in June during lockdown despite only playing in one theater, grossing $25,000. The feature will star Tabach with Giorgia Whigham,...

We present our interviews from the Tiff premiere of crime drama Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler. The film is directed by Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie and also stars Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, The Weekend, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Aranbayev, Jacob Igielski, Lakeith Stanfield and Noa Fisher.

The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, and these are the interviews from the red carpet.

Synopsis:

Set in the diamond district of New York City, Howard Ratner, a jewelry store owner and dealer to the rich and famous, must find a way to pay his debts when his merchandise is taken from one of his top sellers and girlfriend. From acclaimed filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie comes an electrifying crime thriller about Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score. When he makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead...