[FILM Review, SXSW 2012]: Safety Not Guaranteed
Safety Not Guaranteed Saturday March 10 (opens in America on June 8th) ***1/2 Directed by Colin Trevorrow and written and produced by Derek Connolly and Jay and Mark Duplass, Safety Not Guaranteed...
View ArticleSXSW 2012: Day Three (mostly comedy)
After a series of extremely entertaining interviews with Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, and the cast of The Cabin In The Woods (BRAG will be publishing a feature in good time), Sunday in Austin was spent...
View Article[FILM Review, SXSW 2012]: Girls
Girls (world premiere) Monday March 12 ****1/2 “Not since Freaks and Geeks has this felt like something special happened,” Judd Apatow told a thrilled audience after the SXSW premiere of his new series...
View ArticleSXSW Interactive: Guest Post
South by South West is the mecca of brands: the Samsung bloggers’ lounge, the Vimeo Theatre, the Fader Fort, the Hype Hotel… Walk outside the conference centre and get fed by the Mashable Food Truck or...
View ArticleSXSW 2012: Day Four & Five
We spent day four and five running around from cinema to cinema, to try and watch as many films as possible before the music came to town. It’s close to impossible to do anything other than BANDS when...
View ArticleSXSW 2012: Day Five Addendum
At the end of Day Five came the launch of Daniel Johnston's graphic novel, Space Ducks: An Infinite Comic Book Of Musical Greatness. Hosted by Brooklyn Vegan, the night promised sets from the cult hero...
View ArticleSXSW 2012: Day Six
"I really wanna rock your socks off, but I feel powerless without a drummer," lamented Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater at the beginning of Day Six, when he graced a near-empty Hype Hotel with an...
View ArticleSXSW 2012: Day Seven – The FOMO Edition
A brief scan through all the other SXSW blogs suggests you can't report on this festival without at least mentioning how ridiculously exhausting the whole thing is. It seems like a dicky thing to...
View ArticleSXSW 2012: Day Eight
Waterloo Records is The Record Store in Austin – it's often listed as one of the better stores in the States, too – and the legendary institution just turned 30 this year. The focal point of the local...
View ArticleSXSW 2012: Third Man Records Showcase
It was no surprise to find the line to the Third Man Records showcase unbearably long by the time I made it over to The Stage On Sixth, an hour before the doors opened. If the entire city hadn't been...
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