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Aaron Hillis

Aaron Hillis is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

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Jodorowsky’s Endless Poetry Continues a Phantasmagorical Coming of Age

By Aaron Hillis
Jul 10, 2017

At 88 years young, the rebel-shaman filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has led an eclectic life and enjoyed a provocative career not easily encapsulated. His 1970 acid western, El Topo, crowned him godfather of the midnight-movie craze. His phantasmagoric 1973 masterpiece, The Holy Mountain, was ripped off by Kanye West for the...
Herzog Logs On: The Inquisitive Filmmaker Contemplates the Mysteries of Our Digital Existence

By Aaron Hillis
Aug 30, 2016

Late in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, his unsurprisingly wry, quizzical documentary survey on life inside and beside the virtual world, Werner Herzog stumps two brain researchers with a lyrical question in that instantly recognizable (and often parodied) German accent: “Does the internet dream of itself?” An ever-adventurous...
Netflix's Pee-wee's Big Holiday Made Us Cry Literal Tears of Joy

By Aaron Hillis
Mar 15, 2016

That light-gray Glen plaid suit, topped with a bright red bowtie and white kicks. That precociously naive predilection for absurdly oversized or miniaturized household gadgets. Those impatient eye rolls, mischievous tongue darts and sweetly demented giggles. The fizzy comic persona of Pee-wee Herman dates back to the late '70s, when...
Neil Young's Ragged Glories

Jonathan Demme directs Journeys, a documentary aboout the Canadian singer-songwriter.

By Aaron Hillis
Jul 11, 2012

The Houston opening date for Neil Young Journeys has been moved to Friday, July 27. Not to knock his fantastic films such as Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs and Something Wild, but there's something wilder — or at least, more directly stimulating and pure — about Jonathan...
2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

By Aaron Hillis
May 24, 2012

In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create — and maybe more significantly, that studios still distribute — summer entertainment for grown-ups. Not that those buckets of popcorn are going to empty themselves, but who needs to be reminded...