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A ship, wrecked: HBO’s The Last Cruise chronicles COVID-19’s infamous cruise ship

The trailer for HBO’s The Last Cruise. Filmmaker Hannah Olson might be the only person to ever have two world premieres at South by Southwest while never having her work shown on a single screen in town. Back in 2020, Olson was ready to bring Baby God, her HBO documentary on the fallout from revelations […]

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Bus drivers bring adaptation of Alien to London’s West End in Alien on Stage

Danielle Kummer and Lucy Harvey produced and directed the charming documentary Alien on Stage. Imagine if your amateur high school theatrical production was suddenly asked to perform on Broadway, with just a few weeks to prepare. That’s the kind of thing that typically provides fodder for anxiety dreams. But in Alien on Stage, a group of […]

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Can you make a comedy set during COVID-19? Recovery takes the idea for a drive

The trailer for Recovery, which enjoyed its world premiere at SXSW 2021. The second edition of South by Southwest to take place in the middle of our in-progress pandemic just wrapped. Maybe this should’ve been obvious beforehand—since everyone from Michael Bay to Netflix rolled out shot-in-quarantine films in recent months—but the era of COVID-19 films […]