{"id":893589,"date":"2026-03-22T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/?p=893589"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:21:39","slug":"sxsw-what-were-the-best-movies-we-saw-at-the-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/sxsw-what-were-the-best-movies-we-saw-at-the-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW: What Were The Best Movies We Saw At The Fest?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Last week, I had the honour of representing JoBlo once again at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. This was my second year covering the festival, and I have to say, going to Austin has always been special to me. I remember, as a film fan in the \u201990s and 2000s, reading the early days of film news coverage on the original websites and always being impressed by how many of my favorite writers came from Austin. It seemed like the film nerd capital of the world, yet I never actually made it out to Austin until relatively late in my career. Of course, the town never disappoints, as it\u2019s a party-hardy city if ever there was one (I ate lots of BBQ and drank lots of whiskey, that\u2019s for sure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing about Austin is how hardcore the movie fans are, with the screenings I attended at SXSW being some of the more raucous in recent memory. I still have a few reviews to catch up on, but I managed to catch most of the big titles (read my reviews HERE<\/a>), and I wanted to highlight five of my favourites from the fest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m actually surprised no distributor has picked this one up yet, as it feels like the kind of horror flick that could turn into a big franchise for an upstart distributor. It\u2019s a slasher movie for the digital age, with a group of streaming video moderators who find themselves targeted by a malevolent presence that travels via streaming video. It\u2019s produced by the people behind the Smile<\/em> franchise, and I still think it\u2019s only a matter of time before someone picks this up for theaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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