News

33 Days has cast its Gavin Newsom for the drama feature focusing on the California housing crisis.

Travis Quentin Young will portray Newsom during his tenure as the mayor of San Francisco in the indie film set in 2005. Daniel and David Holechek are directing the movie that is currently in production and stars George Hu as Pastor Roger N. Huang in the story of his 33-day hunger strike outside of San Francisco City Hall.

The hunger strike reflected Huang’s effort to enact change in his neighborhood, including his push for new policy to improve the unhoused crisis in the San Francisco area.

Tony Gapastione and Brent McCorkle wrote the script for 33 Days. Hailing from Duality Films and Bravemaker Media, the project counts Daniel and David Holechek as producers, alongside Gapastione, Huang, Terry Lu and Ed Portillo.

Young’s other credits include a lead role in I Really Love My Husband,...

Exclusive: Entertainment Squad has bulked up its Cannes sales slate with worldwide rights to SXSW comedy drama I Really Love My Husband and is screening the film tomorrow [May 16].

Gg Hawkins wrote and directed the story of newlyweds Teresa and Drew, whose compatibility is put to the test when they arrive on honeymoon in Panama. Hawkins, Madison Lanesey, and Scott Monahan co-wrote the story.

Lanesey, Travis Quentin Young, Arta Gee, and Lisa Jacqueline Starrett star in the feature from Night Breeze Productions that is a co-production with Lu Mac Productions and New 32 Productions, in association with Pan Up Productions, BraveMaker,...

“I Really Love My Husband,” a well-received romantic comedy from this year’s SXSW Film Festival, has been swooped up by indie distributor Entertainment Squad.

Writer-director G.G. Hawkins’ project about the complexities of modern love (and one claustrophobic honeymoon) has sold worldwide rights to the boutique firm founded by Shaked Berenson. The shop will take the film out for a U.S. theatrical release later in 2025 and launch international territory sales out of next week’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film stars Madison Lanesey, Travis Quentin Young, Arta Gee and Lisa Jacqueline Starrett. Critics have praised the film for its raw and honest portrayal of a relationship and acerbic wit. It currently sits at 92% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes based on 12 reviews.

“Our goal was to capture the beauty and chaos of messy relationships — the comedy, the pain, the cringe — all set against the breathtaking backdrop of Bocas del Toro,...

Nothing is more exciting than a threesome to save a fading marriage. I Really Love My Husband is a complete antithesis of its title. A year into their marriage, Teresa (Madison Lanesey) and her utterly, completely perfect “golden boy” husband Drew (Travis Quentin Young) book a honeymoon trip to the tropical paradise of Bocas del Toro, Panamá—but even before their plane arrives at their destination, trouble brews.

The sound of silence is deafening. SXSW 2025 has concluded this year's edition. Last week the jury and special awards were announced. Our coverage is not quite complete; we'll update this post as a few more articles roll in this week. This is a safe URL to bookmark, however, and please do so. We saw a lot of films we loved and liked in Austin, Texas, over the past 10 days, and were moved to write about nearly all of them, as gathered below. ----------------------------------------------------------- Features by Ryland Aldrich Reviews by Barbara Goslawski Uvalde Mom Other Side Creede U.S.A. (capsule) Interviews by Blake Simons Amy Wang Talks Slanted Siobhan McCarthy Talks She's The He Gg Hawkins Talks I Really Love My Husband Reviews by J...

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

In “I Really Love My Husband,” Gg Hawkins’ undercooked feature debut as a writer-director, Teresa (Madison Lanesey) tells others that she really loves her husband every chance that she gets. But by saying it out loud, it often looks and sounds like she is first and foremost trying to convince herself that her love is the true kind. Except, starting with the early scenes of this comedic drama that could have used both better humor and deeper dramatic stakes, there are various clues that she might not, in fact, be in love with Drew (Travis Quentin Young), an incurable people-pleaser who Teresa actually seems to be annoyed with too often.

We get to know the standard dynamic between the questionably happy couple on a flight to their honeymoon in idyllic Bocas del Toro, Panamá, while Drew does everything in his power to be exhaustingly genial, while Teresa shows her comparably on-edge personality.

'I Really Love My Husband' stars Madison Lanesey, Travis Quentin Young, and Arta Gee join filmmaker Gg Hawkins to discuss their new indie dramedy, which premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest Film Festival on March 7, 2025. The film will screen again on March 13 at Alamo Lamar. You can find more information below:

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/films/2205955

In 'I Really Love My Husband,' a woman grows disillusioned with her golden-boy husband during their tropical honeymoon, leading her to recruit an enigmatic expat to spice things up—for better or worse.

I Really Love my Husband was co-written and directed by Gg Hawkins, who is deeply familiar with Panamanian paradise and loves it...even if it did give her a sunburn. Travis Quentin Young talks about Star Search, Arta Gee discusses their kick ass hobbies, and Madison Lanesy talks about co-creating this twisty-turny tale at SXSW.

A newlywed's tropical getaway to Panama takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself drawn to their charismatic rental host, leading her to make a bold proposition that could change everything.

Exclusive: Lexi Underwood (Cruel Summer), Case Walker (The Other Two) and Kat Cunning (Purple Hearts) have signed on to star in the feature film Bad Karaoke, a horror comedy from District 78 Films and Father Greg Productions. Shooting begins this month in LA.

The film follows a group of friends in a cover band making their way from Portland, Oregon, to perform at a wedding in Napa. When they discover an abandoned karaoke machine in the back of a dive bar, songwriter Emily (Underwood), bassist Noah (Walker), and their motley band crew must find a way to defeat the cursed machine before it finishes them all off.

Cunning plays the band’s lead singer Hannah, who has come to terms with their career as a cover band musician only to learn it might become the death of them.

Chris Lightbody and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. are directing from a script by Lightbody and Spencer Yaras.

Teresa really loves her husband. She keeps telling herself that, but the needed emphasis is telling, and right from the get-go in I Really Love My Husband, we hardly believe her. The indie film from director/screenwriter G.G. Hawkins, which recently premiered at SXSW, is more like I Really Wish I Loved My Husband, and while the film could have benefitted from expanding its focus even more beyond Teresa, played by Madison Lanesey, the winning premise and the film’s stars manage to keep the story afloat.

The husband in question here is Drew (Travis Quentin Young), who’s sweet and charming, and, at least at first glance, a complete catch. The story finds this duo finally embarking on their honeymoon one year after they were married. They’re thrilled to arrive in the tropical paradise of Bocas del Toro, Panama, but stripped of distractions, Teresa becomes all the more aggravated by Drew’s people-pleasing.