Andrew Barker

AUSTIN, TEXAS | Austin's film, media and music conference and festival SXSW was canceled in March 2020 for the first time in 34 years and is set to be held virtually in 2021. The event typically brings in
More than $350 million for the local economy.

SXSW gets back on track with virtual film festival

March 15, 2021 at 8:12 p.m.

Few film institutions, and certainly no film festivals, experienced a COVID trial by fire quite as SXSW did last year. The mammoth Austin event -- which includes a film festival, a tech conference and...

‘Skate Kitchen’ review: An irresistible hangout movie that showcases female skateboarders

December 13, 2018 at 1:40 a.m.

The last time Crystal Moselle brought a film to the Sundance Film Festival , she won the 2015 festival's jury prize for her stranger-than-fiction documentary study of seven cinema-obsessed, shut-in...

‘The Gospel According to Andre’ review: A peek inside the life and career of a Vogue editor

May 13, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

"I don't live for fashion, I live for beauty and style." So says haute couture eminence grise Andre Leon Talley in the opening seconds of Kate Novack's "The Gospel According...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘Traffik’ review: Paula Patton in a confused mess of a would-be human trafficking thriller

December 14, 2018 at 6:17 p.m.

Noble intentions are derailed by deeply confused execution in writer-director Deon Taylor's "Traffik," which attempts to marry cheap genre thrills with an unflinching depiction of the horrors of international sex...

‘Mr. Roosevelt’ review: ‘Master of None’ star makes a free-spirited directorial debut

December 15, 2018 at 5:12 a.m.

"Mr. Roosevelt" is the debut film by writer-director Noel Wells, a Texas native who decamped for Los Angeles to become a comic. It also features Wells in the lead role,...

‘Catfight’ review: Sandra Oh, Anne Heche uplift bizarre plot about bitter frenemies

June 30, 2019 at 1:56 a.m.

The scene opens on a ritzy New York dinner party, as a crowd of defense contractors toast to the lucrative new deals they're about to sign now that a recently...

‘Oasis: Supersonic’ review: Gallagher brothers doc a wild act to follow

June 9, 2018 at 12:38 p.m.

No matter where one places Oasis in the pantheon of great bands, it's beyond debate that Oasis guitarist-songwriter Noel Gallagher ranks as one of the most quotable rock stars of...

‘In the Valley of Violence’ review: Ethan Hawke, his dog plot revenge in the West

June 9, 2018 at 2:03 p.m.

Walking a fine line between charming lark and smirking goof, Ti West's "In a Valley of Violence" is a Western homage that has its heart in the genre, but not...

‘My Blind Brother’ review: Jenny Slate, Nick Kroll boost lightweight romantic comedy

June 13, 2018 at 4:22 a.m.

After living for more than a decade within the Apatovian slacker-comedy tradition, in which the joys of arrested development are smiled upon indulgently for a while before our heroes stride...

‘Pele: Birth of a Legend’ review: Formulaic biopic of soccer star

June 12, 2018 at 3:16 a.m.

In his 1992 soccer-fan memoir "Fever Pitch," Nick Hornby recalled his first exposure to one of the great Pele-led Brazilian World Cup teams, writing: "Brazil ruined it for all of...

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