The AFCA is pleased to announce our 2025 film award nominees. Winners will be announces on December 18th. Congratulations to all our nominees! 🍾 austinfilmcritics.org/2025/12/10/2...

baby's first awards season 💫

run don’t walk to your local cinema for an absolutely incredible 3-for-2 deal on elle fannings right now

✝️ 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃 ✝️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...

#TIFF50 roundup 🧵 Started off by waxing poetic on Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE, a frontrunner for movie of the year hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/tiff...

rejoice, genre nerds! #fantasticfest is finally upon us 🙏🏼😈 wrote up a preview of the latine projects at the fest for #latinamediaco latinamedia.co/fantastic-fe...

can’t wait for #tiff50! hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/2025...

i loved CAUGHT STEALING and its star, noted lesbian icon austin butler hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/caug...

Thrilled to rep Hyperreal Film Journal as a new member of the Austin Film Critics Association 💫

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

Every word of this, from @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

caught UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME at local treasure AFS on a stormy sunday, all vibes no substance but sometimes that's what the occasion calls for

VOLVER and also D.E.B.S. ❤️‍🔥

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

all-time fav comfort movie

MATERIALISTS disappointing :( hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/mate...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

Love this essay from Lynn Chen, one of the stars of SAVING FACE, on its 20th(!!) anniversary. Y2K lesbian romcom of my dreams 💫❤️‍🔥 genxtaste.substack.com/p/saving-fac...

all the ladies of nashville

The Philippou brothers may have been one of the most fun interviews I've done. We chatted chewing knives, grief in horror, and the awe-inspiring greatness of Sally Hawkins: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Upon Saving Face’s twentieth anniversary, writer-director Alice Wu chats with Adesola about her history-making rom-com’s lesbian legacy, finding inspiration in Tootsie and why her film is ultimately a love letter to her mother. boxd.it/2ys

BRING HER BACK is less scary but more cohesive than TALK TO ME. Same level of traumatized kids tho hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/brin...

lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

hal hartley’s OPERA NO. 1 with parker posey & adrienne shelley was a perfect 8-min sunday morning watch 🪽

Belated SXSW 🧵 starting with my review of HOLLAND, which has Nicole Kidman but not a whole lot to say hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/holl...

david osit’s excellent PREDATORS, which just got picked up by MTV documentary films, covers this exact phenomenon

Any one of the "11,000 global members with diverse viewpoints" who cannot condemn the physical assault of a filmmaker does not belong in the Academy. This is a woefully insufficient response, literally worse than silence.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

As horror continues to shape some of Hollywood’s greatest artists, Jenni Kaye traces the early genre roots of ten Oscar winners—from vampire Westerns to slasher sequels—and explore how scares paved the way to the golden statue. boxd.it/2rG

My first Sundance review, on the somewhat underbaked SUGAR BABIES hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/suga...

Sundance time baby

Heading to Sundance next week! Here’s what’s on my must-see list 💅 hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/sund...

On the heels of our EOY list comes Hyperreal Film Journal’s Honorable Mentions & Editors’ Choices! I wrote about Nickel Boys, my predecessor went long on Madame Web, many other treasures abound 🪽 hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/best...

there’s an absolute plague of this in contemporary fiction. just write a screenplay if that’s what you’re interested in!

A very special $6 thrift find

Babygirl balances out eroticism and thrills with a meaningful character study, becoming more than its genre. My review for Hyperreal Film Journal (or: sex is back, baby) hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/baby...