{"id":536243,"date":"2026-03-21T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536243\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:52:11","slug":"top-8-films-from-noah-kahan-doc-to-over-your-dead-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536243\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 8 Films, From Noah Kahan Doc to ‘Over Your Dead Body’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThough this year\u2019s South by Southwest Film & TV Festival was an abbreviated, seven-day affair, filmmakers still brought Austin\u2019s clap-happy crowds an assortment of film and TV titles full of blood, laughter and tears to complement their tacos and barbecue. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt was a strong year for the SXSW headliners section, which is populated with studio-backed titles and celebrity names. Three of them made our best-of-fest list: Boots Riley\u2019s Keke Palmer-led sci-fi comedy \u201cI Love Boosters,\u201d Jorma Taccone\u2019s comedic thriller \u201cOver Your Dead Body\u201d starring Jason Segel and Samara Weaving and the horror comedy \u201cThey Will Kill You\u201d from Kirill Sokolov, starring Zazie Beetz as its murderous heroine. Notice a theme? SXSW is best known for its love of gory humor.<\/p>\n

\n\tSXSW officially added TV to its title and its list of priorities a few years back, and no series on the 2026 lineup justified that move more than \u201cThe Comeback.\u201d Created by Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, with Kudrow starring as a washed-up reality TV star, the world premiere of the third and final season after a decade-long hiatus was a welcome presence at the fest.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne the documentary front, our standout was Netflix\u2019s \u201cNoah Kahan: Out of Body,\u201d soon to premiere on Netflix. Our other picks \u2014 \u201cThe Fox,\u201d \u201cKill Me\u201d and \u201cTheir Town\u201d \u2014 are smartly written indies still seeking distribution.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor more on our offbeat favorites from the weirdest stop on the festival circuit, read on.<\/p>\n

\tThe Comeback<\/p>\n

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\n\tIt\u2019s been 11 1\/2 years since \u201cThe Comeback\u201d has blessed us with its presence, and for those of us who love it, that\u2019s far too long. But seeing Season 3\u2019s first two episodes in its premiere at the Paramount Theatre on March 16 did feel worth the wait. \u201cThe Comeback\u201d \u2014 Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King\u2019s brilliant creation \u2014\u00a0is like a comet that comes along every 10ish years, and this time, it will circle the Earth just one last time, when its third season premieres on HBO on March 22. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs always, the show finds Kudrow\u2019s Valerie Cherish \u2014 a yearning sitcom star who\u2019s never quite gotten what she wants \u2014 in a state of duress. This time, she\u2019s been offered the leading role in the first TV comedy that\u2019s been fully written by AI. Valerie worries about this \u2026 just a little. But then her ambition takes over, and she\u2019s off to the races. (Read our full writeup of the premiere here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\tThe Fox<\/p>\n

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\n\tOlivia Colman as the voice a talking fox in an absurd Australian indie comedy should be enough to draw you in, but if it isn\u2019t, stick around for Dario Russo\u2019s excellent satire on the role of (heterosexual) marriage in a modern society and the things men and women expect from each other. When a man (Jai Courtney) devoted to his fianc\u00e9e (Emily Browning) discovers that she\u2019s been cheating on him, he throws her to the bottom of an impossibly deep and supposedly magical hole in the forest per the advice of Colman\u2019s fox \u2014 whose ability to talk is questioned by no one, by the way. The attack is supposed to fix their relationship, but shocker: Strange, hilarious complications arise. Told like a folktale, \u201cThe Fox\u201d was one of the festival\u2019s most humble and delightful surprises.<\/p>\n

\tI Love Boosters<\/p>\n

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\n\tBoots Riley is back, and according to some, he\u2019s better<\/a>. The \u201cSorry to Bother You\u201d director and outspoken communist\u2019s second film earned two big honors at this year\u2019s SXSW: playing as the coveted opening night premiere slot and becoming the subject of Variety\u2018s first-ever SXSW issue cover story. The sci-fi comedy stars Keke Palmer in a jam-packed ensemble that also features Demi Moore, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle and more, all in service of a candy-colored critique of capitalism that brought the Paramount Theatre to its feet. Catch it in theaters via Neon on May 22.<\/p>\n

\tKill Me<\/p>\n

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\n\tIt\u2019s no surprise that \u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u201d star Charlie Day excels at playing another hot mess of a man in his new indie movie. Still, he adds depth and complication to that streak in \u201cKill Me,\u201d which sees his character Jimmy wake up with slit writs in a bloody bathtub and no memory of hour he got there. Both the cops and his family are convinced he attempted suicide, so Jimmy launches an investigation of his so-called attempted murder \u2014 and of his own mind \u2014 with little evidence besides his nasty apartment filled with takeout containers. From debut director Peter Warren, and boosted by a warm, sensitive supporting performance from Allison Williams, \u201cKill Me\u201d is an addition to the growing wave of projects about mental health and self harm that actually has something new to say.<\/p>\n

\tNoah Kahan: Out of Body<\/p>\n

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\n\tMany of the major titles at SXSW this year involved gory fun, but Netflix\u2019s Noah Kahan documentary, \u201cOut of Body,\u201d gave audiences a reason to cry. Director Nick Sweeney followed the Vermont singer-songwriter for nearly two years, chronicling his rise from tiny venues to headlining Fenway Park. The film finds Kahan at a moment of upheaval, as he copes with extreme fame, depression and body dysmorphia. But not to worry: There are also plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, as Kahan serves as the charismatic, self-effacing guide into his own life. Find it on Netflix on April 13.<\/p>\n

\tOver Your Dead Body<\/p>\n

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\n\tOne of the major themes of SXSW was the horror comedy movie, something pulled off brilliantly by Samara Weaving and Jason Segel\u2019s \u201cOver Your Dead Body.\u201d It was the perfect combination of horror and gore \u2014 a lot of gore, by the way \u2014\u00a0and included hilarious, brilliant supporting performances by Juliette Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Paul Guilfoyle and Keith Jardine. There\u2019s also a surprise cameo in the finale scenes no one saw coming. Was it outrageous and over the top? 100%. Did it make the theater erupt in laughter from the beginning to end? Also 100%.<\/p>\n

\tTheir Town<\/p>\n

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\n\tWritten by frequent SXSW filmmaker Mark Duplass, directed by his wife Katie Aselton and starring their daughter Ora Duplass, with a handful of additional family members filling out the credits list, \u201cTheir Town\u201d is a small-scale indie drama full of heart. Following two teenagers (Duplass and Chosen Jacobs) who reluctantly star in their high school play over the course of 24 hours, the film acts as a \u201cBefore Sunrise\u201d spinoff for a generation of socially anxious, COVID-traumatized young people. And 21 years after the term \u201cmumblecore\u201d was coined at the 2005 edition of SXSW, the newest gem of the subgenre culminates in a truly moving final sequence that reminds us why we we go to film festivals.<\/p>\n

\tThey Will Kill You<\/p>\n

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\n\tDuring a 10-minute speech introducing his horror-comedy headliner to the audience at the SXSW world premiere, co-writer and director Kirill Sokolov called lead actress Zazie Beetz \u201ca warrior goddess, a force of nature in the shape of a woman, a demon slayer, the queen of tears and pain, and the coolest samurai.\u201d Excessive? Sure. But after the screening, the crowd agreed. From \u201cAtlanta\u201d to \u201cJoker,\u201d Beetz has been delivering strong supporting performances for years, but the bloody, culty freakishness of \u201cThey Will Kill You,\u201d releasing via Warner Bros. on March 27, finally gives her the lead role she\u2019s proven she deserves.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though this year\u2019s South by Southwest Film & TV Festival was an abbreviated, seven-day affair, filmmakers still brought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,66422],"class_list":["post-536243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-sxsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}