Daily Screens
Into the Woods: Ishana Night Shyamalan on Fantasy-Horror The Watchers
It’s easy to set a movie in a country or place. Yet as Ishana Night Shyamalan learned, it’s only when your boots are on the soil that you can really understand the location and its people.

4:17PM Fri. Jun. 7, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Kingcast Host and Online Film Journalism Legend Scott Wampler Dies
The Austin film community – and the genre film community at large – is in shock and mourning with the news that Scott Wampler, former managing editor of Birth.Movies.Death. and cohost of The Kingcast, has suddenly died.

2:08PM Sat. Jun. 1, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Viggo Mortensen Looks Homeward in The Dead Don’t Hurt
When most filmmakers make a revisionist Western, it’s still riddled with all the old tropes about masculinity, just seen from a different perspective. But that doesn’t interest Viggo Mortensen.

3:42PM Thu. May 30, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Ethan Hawke and the Inner Life of Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat
Who says there’s no such thing as nepotism in Hollywood? After all, there’s no way that Ethan Hawke would have got the gig directing Wildcat if he wasn’t the star's father.

2:03PM Wed. May 29, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Five Deeper-Cut Panels to Catch at ATX TV Festival
The buzzy TV show premieres, the first looks at season finales, the starry cast reunions – those are probably the reasons most folks decide to attend ATX TV Festival, the long-running local monument to all things small screen.

11:35AM Wed. May 29, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Life as a War Boy
The Wastelands of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga are basically Austin. It's absurdly hot, increasingly afflicted by climate change, and everyone's obsessed with guns and cars. And for one afternoon, Austin also had its own raiding party of War Boys.

3:52PM Fri. May 24, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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The CW Cancels Austin-Made Walker
In a blow to his fans and to the Austin film and TV industry, Jared Padalecki will be hanging up his signature white cowboy hat, with the news that the CW is canceling Walker.

12:18PM Wed. May 22, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Angels, Devils, and Jim Cummings at The Last Stop in Yuma County
There are filmmakers who make films, and filmmakers who show people how to make films. Jim Cummings is self-deprecatingly the latter. “To follow somebody’s footsteps – who is an idiot – is very helpful for people,” he said.

10:46AM Fri. May 17, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fifty Years of Movie Magic at the Alamo Village
Happy birthday, Village cinema! The oldest continuously operating movie house in Austin celebrated its 50th year as the secret heart of the city's film scene last night with a special screening of another quinquagenarian Austin original, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

10:40AM Thu. May 16, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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