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Opinion Brett Ryan Bonowicz Opinion Brett Ryan Bonowicz

PEELE-ING BACK THE LAYERS OF NOPE

The idea explored in NOPE of looking away from spectacle is precisely something you can’t avoid when viewing a movie. It brings voyeurism into the film in a way not done so nakedly since Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW, another film about voyeurism and its relationship to the filmgoing experience.

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Opinion Courtney Hazlett Gelderman Opinion Courtney Hazlett Gelderman

What To Watch?

If you’re looking for something new to watch or are simply wanting to escape the heat this upcoming summer season, chill out with some of my favorite SciFi and Horror shows that have come out in the past few years.

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Opinion Hal Hoeppner Opinion Hal Hoeppner

TOO. DAMN. LONG.

I wondered about the status of my bill about three times during [THE BATMAN] thinking that surely there wasn’t more than 30 minutes left, but there was…there always was.

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Opinion Brett Ryan Bonowicz Opinion Brett Ryan Bonowicz

Let’s All Go To The Movies

Many of the films we show at Other Worlds are acquired for distribution and are available for streaming after the festival but will never show in a theatre in Austin again - and that’s a tragedy. But it also makes what we do unique and special and once in a lifetime.

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Opinion Brett Ryan Bonowicz Opinion Brett Ryan Bonowicz

SOLARIS at Twenty

At its core, SOLARIS is a film about second chances. I'm glad I was able to have a second chance with it. On its 20th anniversary, might you give it a second chance too?

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Opinion Robyn Paxman Opinion Robyn Paxman

SciFi Figure Skating!

So the Winter Beijing Olympics have come and gone and…boy was it a wild ride this year. Let’s take a look at all the programs this year that were inspired by or told SciFi stories.

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Opinion Brett Ryan Bonowicz Opinion Brett Ryan Bonowicz

Shrinking Men

In the 70-odd years of time that has passed since the release of these films, many revolutions have de-centered the white male in American society, but nothing has made men literally shrink in size nor women grow to the height of a five story building.

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