Sean Cordy

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SXSW 2025: ‘The Surfer’ Terrorizes a Wonderful Nic Cage

Sean Cordy - March 13, 2025

The Surfer is one of the most unrelenting movie experiences of my life…in the best way possible, putting Nic Cage through the wringer, and...

SXSW 2025: Mimi Cave’s ‘Holland’ is a Disappointing Followup to 2022’s ‘Fresh’

Sean Cordy - March 11, 2025

Sometimes the ingredients just don't mix together. The sum of the parts just doesn't add up. Nicole Kidman + Matthew Macfadyen + a rising director...

SXSW 2025: Rudd, Ortega highlight A24’s ‘Death of a Unicorn’

Sean Cordy - March 11, 2025

At the end of my screening of Death of a Unicorn at SXSW, director Alex Scharfman said that he wrote role Paul Rudd’s role...

SXSW 2025 Review: ‘The Accountant 2’ is the Surprise Movie of the Year (So Far)

Sean Cordy - March 9, 2025

SXSW has a great history of bringing some of each year’s funniest comedies to the world -- some of my favorite movie-going experiences --...

SXSW 2025: ‘Together’ is a Fresh Body Horror Movie with Scares & Laughs

Sean Cordy - March 8, 2025

Every programmer who introduces a movie at SXSW tries to sell and hype up the audience for the film they’re about to see. And...

SXSW 2025 Review: ‘Another Simple Favor’ Improves the Original with More Twists

Sean Cordy - March 7, 2025

Introducing SXSW’s opening movie this year in Austin, the film & TV festival’s director said when they screened Another Simple Favor back in October,...

SXSW 2025’s Most Exciting Premieres: Two Paul Rudd Films, Nic Cage Surfs & More

Sean Cordy - March 4, 2025

https://youtu.be/nE6ix5Rdky8 This will be my fifth year covering SXSW for The Pop Break (and sixth overall). This year looks to be the biggest as I...

Inside A24’s Heretic with Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Bryan Woods & Scott Beck

Sean Cordy - November 21, 2024

When the first trailer from A24 was released this summer to give a peak at what the co-writers of A Quiet Place were cooking...

TIFF Review: Relay

Sean Cordy - October 22, 2024

Earlier this fall at TIFF my choice for my last film came down to seeing either David Mackenzie’s Relay or Angelina Jolie’s Without Blood....

TIFF Review: Heretic

Sean Cordy - September 19, 2024

The hottest club in Toronto, Heretic has everything: A Bob Ross Monopoly game, Mormons talking about condom sizes, a robust dissection of religion, and...