San Antonio Film Festival

San Antonio Film Festival Review: Sanitarium (2013)

San Antonio Film Festival Review: Sanitarium (2013)

Sanitarium is the latest entry in a seemingly endless line of horror anthologies, a type of moviemaking I have yet to fully enjoy. For those who don’t know, horror anthologies are a collection of short films made by directors of varying talent. VHS and The ABCs of Death are two p... Read More »

San Antonio Film Festival Review: The Story of Luke (2012)

San Antonio Film Festival Review: The Story of Luke (2012)

It’s hard to make a movie involving a protagonist with autism, and writer/director Alonso Mayo knows it. His feature debut, The Story of Luke, doesn’t exploit its protagonist’s autism. Instead, it tells a traditional coming-of-age tale that could easily apply to anyone. It just s... Read More »

San Antonio Film Festival Review: Sick Mick and the Boys (2013).

San Antonio Film Festival Review: Sick Mick and the Boys (2013).

Mike Charlton (also known as Sick Mick) is a man with a dream; to break the motor land speed record. In Sick Mick and the Boys, it’s shown that he’s no ordinary man, and the journey to get to that dream was anything but ordinary. It’s the feature-length documentary debut of Jose ... Read More »

San Antonio Film Festival Review: My Father and the Man in Black (2012)

San Antonio Film Festival Review: My Father and the Man in Black (2012)

My Father and the Man in Black is a documentary that starts with a man named Jonathan Holiff, a big-time player in Hollywood who leaves it all behind when he finds out that his father Saul had just committed suicide. He didn’t know much about his father growing up. Only that he w... Read More »