Like “Blue Valentine,” a previous contender for Worst Date Movie of the Year™, “Pink Wall” is a nonlinear tale of a romance gone wrong. But with his directorial and screenwriting debut, actor Tom Cullen intentionally doesn’t leave the audience as devastated as that Derek Cianfrance film did. He offers an insightful portrait of a relationship in decay that doesn’t make us question the concept of love in general, instead offering an intimate view into the world of one couple at various points in their lives together, letting us see both the good and bad moments.

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It’s been interesting to see Austin and the SXSW Festival explode over the years. Not only has film and music grown, but the festival’s become a trailblazer for tech, interactive, comedy, sports, and much more; SXSW just keeps expanding. Throughout it all, however, the festival has shown very-few-to-no growing pains which is astonishing considering all the expansion. Moreover, the film festival committee and programmers haven’t lost sight of what they do and have continued to deliver their eclectic mix of crowd-pleasing, raucous comedies, and mainstream efforts mixed in with under-the-radar, about-to-breakthrough indies, breakout documentaries and so much more.

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There are romantic dramas that are big on the romance and less on the drama. Then you have films that are romantic dramas in name only, as they paint a bleak picture of relationships and are sure to scare even the most confident of couples. That doesn’t make the latter any worse than the former. It just means that when you see a film that focuses on the realistic drama of an intimate adult relationship, you’re in for a rollercoaster ride of emotions.

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