Author: Brian Salisbury

The greatest part about film festivals is never the parties, the press networking, interviewing filmmakers, or even sneak peeks of major releases. The best part…

As foreign films go, Japan is probably my favorite country. There is a freedom of spirit and rejection of inhibition that produces some of the…

If I learned one thing from the horror panel, which is absurd because I actually learned a surfeit of things from that panel, it’s that…

Cargo was one of my most anticipated films of this year’s SXSW. As I had mentioned before, while Sci-Fi is not my expertise, the titles…

We all remember high school, right? For some of us it’s not a terribly distant memory and for others it’s so distant that it’s almost…

To undertake an SNL sketch adaptation is to navigate some rough waters. When these films are good, they are great; Blues Brothers jumps immediately to…

SXSW is a prestigious festival, of that we can be sure, but it is not highly regarded for its celebration of genre. That’s not a…

How excited am I to be attending a reparatory screening of an unsung horror film at SXSW? If you’re at all familiar with the articles…

American Grindhouse was my most anticipated film of SXSW 2010. Two years ago, after a pair of amazing road trips to Austin, Texas, I uprooted…