Far from the maddening crowd Downtown, monstrous bulls, back-cracking broncos, and alternately lackadaisical and fleet sheep bearing 5-to-7-year-olds on the ride of their lives baptized Rodeo Austin 2017. Daylong rains didn’t free up many seats inside the Travis County Expo Center arena Saturday night. Dwight Yoakam then stampeded one and all.

Guy Branum’s new TruTV show, Talk Show the Game Show, previewed with a live version in Esther’s Follies Saturday night. In came 266 drenched audience members and 200+ dripping umbrellas, but the wait in the rain was worth it, as the comics provided more fireworks than even the show’s producers anticipated.

Lashonda Lester's incredible year began last May when she was crowned Funniest Person in Austin, the first African-American to win the contest and first female winner in 16 years. Now, at Sunday's SXSW Comedy major showcase, she’s sharing the stage with Janeane Garofalo, Joe DeRosa, and Shane Mauss – and it’s no big thing.

Most artists have trouble maintaining their creative integrity in the face of commercial demands, and small-town gorilla Sylvio Bernardi is no different.

To paraphrase the band Men at Work, you better run, you better take cover. Barring that, definitely don’t go walking alone at night in late-Eighties Perth. Director Ben Young’s first narrative feature is loosely based on actual events, which makes watching this psychological horror show all the more harrowing.

Who could have imagined that a film fusing the Catherine Zeta-Jones B-plot of Ocean’s Twelve with the Alfred Molina burglary scene in P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia would amount to a fully enjoyable, often even touching, indie comedy?

Hollywood has already shown that audiences love a badass female action lead who knows how to use a bow, but The Archer proves that audiences should still be hungry for more.

Who would have thought that steroidal golden boy and wrestling legend Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against upstart online scandal sheet Gawker would result in the site’s total destruction? There’s gotta be more to that story than just a sordid sex tape, right?

There were ghosts in the machine for this preview of two of the year's tentpole horrors. After technical issues, Andrés Muschietti revealed a specially-cut teaser and first footage from his new version of Stephen King's It, while David F. Sandberg showed the first scenes from his addition to The Conjuring-verse, Annabelle 2.