Alright, alright, alright… get hyped, McConaughey's back!

Standing ovations are rare at SXSW, but the Matthew McConaughey starring western/musical/drama The Rivals of Amziah King was far more than alright, alright, alright, earning one from the Austin, TX Paramount Theatre crowd.

Patterson, who broke out with the sci-fi mystery "The Vast of Night," set his new crime thriller in the honey-making industry of rural Oklahoma.

Andrew Patterson's SXSW-bowing film revolves around an Oklahoma apiarist who reunites with his estranged foster daughter.

I reviewed a film premiering on Amazon called The Vast of Night, a small southwestern town drama that felt part Twilight Zone, part Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Its debuting filmmaker was Andrew Patterson,

Andrew Patterson's film is offbeat and accomplished, with plot holes you have to look past. But he's got an audacity brought alive by his actors.

SXSW: A bluegrass-playing beekeeper reconnects with his Choctaw Nation foster daughter in "The Vast of Night" director Andrew Patterson's earnest crowdpleaser.