It’s South-By-Southwest time, everybody! Once again we’re attending the film component of this year’s festival, which runs from March 9 to 17, to cover the films both big -- including studio fare like John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place and the John Cena-starring butt-chugging comedy Blockers -- and small, like short films made by Texas high school students, that will be gracing the screens down there in Austin. There are a great deal of features showing down there, and it’d be a waste of time to cover them all, so we’ve selected five movies that we’re pumped to see at this year’s festival.
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
Few words get us more excited than “the new film by Jody Hill,” and when we read the description for The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter, it became the first must-see of the festival for us (sorry, Blockers, you’ll be out soon enough). Hill’s one of the masterminds behind Eastbound and Down and Vice Principals, and directed a true-blue masterpiece with the bleak comedy Observe and Report back in 2009. Deer Hunter sees Hill partnering up with his longtime accomplice Danny McBride and new collaborator Josh Brolin, to tell a story about a famed hunter (Brolin) and his cameraman (McBride) attempting to reconnect with the hunter’s son (Montana Jordan) on a weekend trip to the mountains.
