After a peek at director Robert Rodriguez‘s action thriller “Hypnotic” at this year’s SXSW, audiences won’t have to wait much longer to catch the full version in theaters this spring.

Hypnotic neither feels like a film made by its otherwise capable director – Robert Rodriguez, the visual stylist behind Sin City – nor one deserving of a star of Ben Affleck’s caliber.

The twists never stop in Hypnotic, a pulpy thriller which relishes its B-movie trappings but does not offer much beyond them. Director and co-writer Robert Rodriguez sends a despondent detective ...

The idea for Hypnotic conceptualized around the time director Robert Rodriguez was filming Spy Kids 2, which is what he told the audience at Sunday night’s premiere screening. His love of Austin ...