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The 33rd edition of the SXSW Film and Television Festival announced their Audience Award winners, led by Jorma Taccone’s Over Your Dead Body in the Headliner section, Robb Boardman’s Plantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film in the Narrative Feature Competition, and The Ascent, directed by Edward Drake, Scott Veltri, Francis Cronin, in the Documentary Feature Competition. Dave Boyle’s Never After Dark won the Audience Award in the Midnighter section. Check out all the Audience Award winners here. Our in-person coverage was led by my hard-working fellow editor J Hurtado. Due to a late-breaking acute bronchitis attack, I was unable to make the trip, but I did my best to contribute remote coverage, and contributing writer Daniel Eagan also reviewed a film remotely. And…

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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Aidan Zamiri. Aidan Zamiri named his first feature film The Moment. In this mockumentary, based on Charli XCX’s Brat album- and tour-role-out, the notion of being an ‘it’-person and being culturally relevant becomes bleakly comical and quietly unnerving. The idea that you, as a person, could come to be described as ‘the moment’, an ethereal disembodied notion signifying imminent death, is enough to send Charli XCX spiraling. Cultural cachet and relevance is what happens to be the name of the game for Aidan Zamiri, who himself could be described as an ‘it’-person and who has turned his directorial fame…

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Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebell, and Mireille Enos lead the ensemble science-fiction series in its fifth season.

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The only thing worse than Nazis or Vampires, is the two combined.

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Jake Manley and Adeline Rudolph star in director Marc Klasfeld’s horror movie.

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Mena Suvari and Dichen Lachman star in writer/director Adam Sherman’s noir horror comedy

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Festival season’s in full swing and our friends at the Chattanooga Film Festival 2026 have some treats to share with the announcement of their first fun wave. If you’ve ever been, you know that the fest attracts an island of friendly, passionate misfits and everyone has a terrific time in the dark.  This year’s in-person fest runs June 18-21 and their unparalleled, super-fun virtual festival stretches from June 19-27. Not only are a huge amount of features and shorts online, but fest programmers intro many of the programs with a fun video — you can tell they love what they do. Plus, there’s a popular Discord channel where tons of festival goers and filmmakers intersect. CFF has a terrific weirdo community of the best kind….

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A frustrated catholic schoolgirl accidentally forms a punk band with her “turd” friends and turns her campus upside down in Edie Arnold is a Loser, the contagiously charming, super energetic debut feature from writer/directors Kade Atwood and Megan Rico. Edie (Adi Madden Cabrera) hates her catholic school. The only modicum of joy she gets is fantasizing about rock ‘n’ roll while (barely) playing drums for her school’s terrible church choir. Sharing her frustration is the choir organist, the explosively enthusiastic Frances (McKenna Tuckett). The choir is populated by very pretty girls with very little talent, making their jobs as accompanists torturous. They wile away their school days complaining with their more subdued friends Judith (Niki Rahimi) and Ellen (Alexa Paige), all while the popular girls…

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Amid an industry-wide contraction, Series Mania 2026 foregrounds a sharper, more politically attuned slate of series that interrogate authoritarian drift, fractured identities, and the recalibration of storytelling in a post-peak TV landscape.

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Plus: ‘Do Not Enter,’ ‘Miroirs No. 3,’ ‘Tow,’ ‘Two Prosecutors,’ ‘Late Shift,’ and more.

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