Film

"Get your Polaroid, a trash bag, and meet me out back.” When you hear the title Dinner in America you might think this movie (released in 2022) is about some…

Director/writer/actor/producer Jay Duplass will accept the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival’s 2025 Spotlight Award during a presentation and screening of his latest film on April 27. The Baltimorons marks…

A 2025 Sundance winner and a new documentary on Neil Young will open and close the 31st annual San Luis Obispo International Film Festival in April. “We are really excited…

USA Today has named the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival one of the 10 Best Film Festivals for 2025. SLO came in at #6, behind Cinema Columbus (OH), Salute…

Having to work at a terrible job out of desperation—a job you hate that is a daily kind of humiliation and destruction of body and spirit—seems to be so common…

Several of this year’s Oscar-winning films were reviewed by SLO Review contributing writers, thanks to the SLO Film Center at the Palm Theatre. If you haven’t yet experienced the following…

Among the opening visuals of the movie Sing Sing, a bird perches on barbed wire looking into a peaceful prison yard. Aside from the wire, high walls, and guard towers,…

In the Shadow of the Cypress*   The five animated short films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards, currently showing in a block at The SLO Film Center at the…

 He’s “Dave” Congalton on the radio, but “David” when he writes. Despite years writing newspaper columns and books, his preferred output remains screenplays. After years of trying, Congalton finally hit…

Since the weeds in the back are getting really tall, I avoided pulling them by watching the 1944 film Passage to Marseille, or at least the last half, the other day.…