Although I was unable to attend South by Southwest in person this year, I’ll hop aboard the hot 2024 publicist-thanking…
Andrew Osborne
Andrew Osborne has written for websites including "Nerve," "Rocker," "Vanity Fair," and "Wired." He's also written film, TV, comic, theatrical, and interactive scripts for Warner Bros., MTV, HBO, Orion, MPCA, Platinum Studios, enVie Interactive, and the Discovery Channel, among others.
While the historical-clips-plus-talking-heads style of this documentary may be conventional, its subject was anything but: namely FLOTUS Lady Bird Johnson’s…
“You can’t stop the production just because somebody dies.” So says Pinny Grylls, co-director of the singular (and 2024 SXSW…
From the earliest Gen Con wargaming clubs in the 1960s to the Freaks and Geeks and Stranger Things kids rolling…
Though not technically a musical, writer/director Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams is peppered with engaging song and dance…
In 2020, 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen created a sweepingly cinematic anthology miniseries for the BBC called Small…
It was love at first sight in 1990 when I first began visiting (and occasionally living in) Austin, TX —…
1. AMERICAN FICTION Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, writer/director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is a quietly…
1. RESERVATION DOGS (FX on Hulu) The Rez Dogs stuck the landing in a final season packed with everything that…
There are only so many hours in a day — especially when Daylight Savings springs forward right in the middle of the…
1. LAST STOP LARRIMAH Even in a notably strong year for SXSW films, this true crime whodunnit featured a more…
SXSW 2023 PREVIEW By Andrew Osborne There are various traditions film lovers enjoy at the start of each new year,…
1. BAD AXE As of this writing, David Siev’s compelling film about his own Cambodian American parents struggling to keep…
1. STRANGER THINGS (Netflix) The Duffer Brothers put their kids on bikes (and the grown-ups who love them) through hell…