{"id":5070,"date":"2019-04-19T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/studentmedia\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2019-04-23T22:40:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:40:24","slug":"film-review-villains-sxsw-world-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/film-review-villains-sxsw-world-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: &#8220;Villains&#8221; SXSW World Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Review &amp; Photos by Taylor Kokas<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dan Berk and Robert Olsen are back again as director duo for their third feature film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Villain\u2019s. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A dark comedy crime thriller about Mickey and Jules (Bill Skarsgard, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IT<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)(Maika Monroe, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It Follows<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), two lovers on their way to Florida. After making a successful gas station robbery their car happens to run out of gas. Just when it seems like they are stranded, Jules spots a nearby home. With no homeowners in site the two break in to try and steal the car that is parked in the garage. The couple roam around the home in search for the keys, with no luck thus far they nervously make their way down into the dark eerie basement only to find a quiet little girl chained up to a pole. Eager to help her escape they go back upstairs to find something to free the little girl from the chains, this is where they meet their match. Homeowners George and Gloria (Jeffrey Donovan, USA Network <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Burn Notice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)(Kyra Sedgwick, TNT <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Closer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). It is here that for the remainder of the film the two couples fight to stay dominant over the other. Only time will tell if Mickey &amp; Jules can make it out alive and continue on their way to Florida, or will George &amp; Gloria get a chance to stage a scene and have a new opportunity to go live a new life elsewhere?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This film has a grand ole time playing with the Bonnie and Clyde dynamic, it\u2019s almost like if you put an eager and messy version of the couple into an alternate dimension where a more conservative and seasoned version lived and you get watch them test each others flaws, see how witty they can be in tight situations, and as much as they are different from each other, just how similar they are in the same, especially when it comes to how much they care for their significant other. For movie goers that enjoy films like Terrence Malick\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Badlands<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Coen Brothers <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raising Arizona<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this is definitely the movie for you.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery interval=&#8221;3&#8243; images=&#8221;5074,5073,5072,5071&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h6>Jeffrey Donovan (1), Robert Olsen (2), Dan Berk (3)<\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Review &amp; Photos by Taylor Kokas Dan Berk and Robert Olsen are back again as director duo for their third feature film, Villain\u2019s. A dark comedy crime thriller about Mickey and Jules (Bill Skarsgard, IT)(Maika Monroe, It Follows), two lovers on their way to Florida. 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