Will Canon’s debut feature Brotherhood (2010) is a film that of late I’ve been telling everyone I know to go see—and it’s not because of the film’s relatively clever recontextualization of film noir tropes and elements into a college setting, or how Canon achieves a dirty, blackly humorous note that, barring a fair bit of urban, suburban machismo and posturing that comes off slightly off-hand, and overly repetitive attempts at creating what seem to be new college frat slogans, sings like witching hour magic throughout. No, the reason I’ve been pimping this film so strongly is because it was shot in and exclusively around Arlington, Texas. Which, for the first sixteen years of my life—accounting for all but three and a half, by now—was my hometown; I know the burg like the back of my hand, all the way from Lincoln Square to the Parks, and off. Canon does, too—and while providing for a competent genre exercise, at the same time he gives us a visual snapshot of my home and his, the asshole of Texas, Aggtown.