The folks at SXSW are introducing a free stage this year with concerts that will be open to the general public along with anyone wearing a festival badge.
If you're as old as I am, you definitely remember the Smokey & The Bandit 'movies starring Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed. Who didn't love the cars, the humor, even the infectious song 'Eastbound and Down' by Jerry Reed?
The Pontiac Trans Am he drove was totally awesome, and one of them was on display at this year's SXSW in Austin, TX along with Burt Reynolds himself. Even though
Gunshots rang out on the final day of the South By Southwest (SXSW) music, film and interactive festival in Austin, Texas, on Sunday morning (March 20).
Paul Feig’s The Heat took a genre that has traditionally belonged to men — the buddy cop movie — and gave it a female twist. Feig’s new movie, Spy, does much the same thing, this time for spy films, a world that has long been by, about, and for dudes and their power fantasies. Spy explicitly subverts the genre’s typical gender dynamics by casting Melissa McCarthy as a lowly, desk-bound CIA analyst named Susan Cooper, who has spent her entire career in the shadow of a glamorous James Bond-esque spy (Jude Law) and then finally gets her opportunity to step into the spotlight and become a full-fledged field agent.
Individually, Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart are undeniably hilarious guys. Bringing two major comedic forces together on the big screen just makes sense on both a commercial and entertainment level. Unfortunately, Get Hard largely squanders the talents of Ferrell and Hart on an outdated premise with tired jokes, delivering what essentially amounts to one overlong joke about the terrors of prison rape.
The dust has barely settled from the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and already we’ve got a look at the lineup for the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival. After an initial announcement that included opening night film ‘Brand,’ about comedian Russell Brand,’ things have filled out really nicely with a ton of promising-sounding selections.
Two people are dead and 23 injured after a car reportedly smashed through a crowd of people outside a music venue at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas early this morning.
These are busy days for Stevie Nicks, with a number of projects converging at once -- and she talked about all of them yesterday (March 14) at SXSW, including the rejuvenated Fleetwood Mac, her participation in Dave Grohl's 'Sound City,' and her own upcoming 'In Your Dreams' documentary.