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San Antonio filmmaker Vanessa Rae Lerma turns family history into a musical

Lerma’s new musical short SweetNess will screen for free this Wednesday at Texas Public Radio’s downtown media center.

by Kiko Martinez March 9, 2026March 9, 2026

Lerma’s new musical short SweetNess will screen for free this Wednesday at Texas Public Radio’s downtown media center.

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Former child actor Jeffrey Voorhees reflects on Jaws ahead of stop in San Antonio

Voorhees, who played ill-fated Alex Kintner, will be among the child actors who appear at the Children of Horror festival this Saturday and Sunday.

by Kiko Martinez February 19, 2026February 19, 2026

New PBS documentary The Librarians shines a light on right-wing efforts to ban books.

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She’s with the Banned: Texas librarian shares battle over book bans in PBS documentary

Documentary The Librarians shows public servants on the front line of a national battle against conservative groups fighting to ban books from public schools.

by Kiko Martinez February 16, 2026February 16, 2026

Benicio Del Toro plays Sensei in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another.

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Here are the Current’s predictions for nominations for the 98th Academy Awards

Oscar noms will be announced Thursday, Jan. 22. Let’s see how this goes.

by Kiko Martinez January 21, 2026January 21, 2026

Jan. 6 rioters clash with law enforcement at the U.S. Capitol.

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Filmmaker Michael Premo’s doc Homegrown looks at America’s radical turn to the right

Among the Jan. 6 Trump supporters the filmmaker interviews is a South Texas-raised Latino.

By Marcelo GarzaJanuary 2, 2026January 2, 2026

Black comedy-action film One Battle After Another is full of nuanced performances.

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From radical activists to vampires, here are the Current’s best films of 2025

One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Marty Supreme and Sinners were all among our critic’s favorites of the year.

by Kiko Martinez December 27, 2025December 27, 2025

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Deborah S. Esquenazi continues to seek justice in documentary Night in West Texas

Esquenazi made Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four, a film that drew attention to four wrongfully convicted queer Latinas.

by Kiko Martinez December 9, 2025December 9, 2025

Hondo resident is featured in the new film American Baby.

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San Antonio actor Cole Springer hopes new movie American Baby builds empathy around teen pregnancy

Springer, 22, appears in the feature, which won the Audience Award for Narrative Feature at the Austin Film Festival.

by Kiko Martinez November 28, 2025November 28, 2025

Brock Harris (left) is the director of the new film Cottonmouth.

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Western Grit: San Antonio-born director Brock Harris rides into Cottonmouth with big-screen ambition

Cottonmouth, a Western adventure shot on an indie budget, is currently available to stream on Prime Video.

by Kiko Martinez November 24, 2025November 24, 2025

The 1992 film Thunderheart is framed as a murder mystery-meets-thriller with a spiritual awakening component.

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San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum screening 1992 thriller Thunderheart for free

The movie, which screens Saturday, is the last installment of this season’s Native Film Series.

by Anjali Gupta November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

San Antonio native Cesar Flores, right, poses with star Matthew McConaughey.

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Steering a Star: Central Catholic grad Cesar Flores trains Matthew McConaughey for The Lost Bus

The San Antonio resident showed the star how to handle a school bus for the Apple TV movie.

by Kiko Martinez November 12, 2025January 7, 2026

Guillermo del Toro "masterfully blends genres using supernatural elements to explore trauma and war" in Devil's Backbone, according to one local filmmaker.

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Reel Nightmares: 7 San Antonio horror filmmakers pick their favorite scary movies

Wanna get scared this spooky season? Check out these recommendations from true masters of fright.

by Kiko Martinez October 30, 2025October 30, 2025

San Antonio actress Rylie Rodriguez plays a young woman who begins to do terrible things after she’s possessed by a demon.

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San Antonio filmmaker Colin Bressler wants to creep you out with his latest horror movie, The Demon’s Killer

The Demon’s Killer, starring SA actress Rylie Rodriguez, will premiere Oct. 29 at City Base Cinemas.

by Kiko Martinez October 24, 2025October 24, 2025

The city is screening 2017 animate feature Coco this Saturday.

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City of San Antonio to host screening of animated Disney film Coco in East Side cemetery

Saturday’s free screening also will feature a scavenger hunt and a community ofrenda.

By Malaki LinggOctober 16, 2025October 16, 2025

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Lucía Garibaldi’s A Bright Future kicks off San Antonio’s Raza Cósmica film fest on Thursday

A Bright Future is a slow-burning, dystopian sci-fi drama that won Tribeca’s Viewpoints Award.

by Enrique Lopetegui October 9, 2025October 9, 2025

Julia Stier got “very lucky” when she was hired as an assistant for director Liesl Tommy, the first woman of color to be nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.

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Julia Stier, a grad of San Antonio’s Reagan High School, thrives as actor, writer and studio executive

The 29-year-old is the head of development at Los Angeles-based Cold Iron Pictures.

by Kiko Martinez October 3, 2025October 3, 2025

Martina Paseggi stars as Elisa in Un futuro brillante (A Bright Future), a film by Uruguayan director Lucía Garibaldi.

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San Antonio’s Raza Cósmica film festival to spotlight ‘constellation of Latinx sci-fi cinema’

The festival, which runs Oct. 9-11, will feature science fiction films from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, the U.S. and more.

by Kiko Martinez October 3, 2025October 6, 2025

Master animator, director and executive producer Bruce E. Smith receives the Ankh Achievement Award at the 2022 SABIFF.

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San Antonio Black International Film Festival to honor filmmaking firebrands

The festival’s seventh-annual installment will take place Oct. 2-5.

by Anjali Gupta September 30, 2025September 30, 2025

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in One Battle After Another, which is due out later this month.

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Fall Film Frenzy: 10 must-see movies this season

From blockbusters to award contenders, there’s no shortage of intriguing films headed our way.

by Kiko Martinez September 26, 2025September 26, 2025

Peter Weller stars in the movie Bang, which is now streaming.

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No Off Switch: Veteran actor and Alamo Heights grad Peter Weller talks about his twilight years

Weller, 78, stars in the new film Bang, where a plays a sadistic crime boss.

by Kiko Martinez September 7, 2025September 7, 2025