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Who's on Mars

Call it the home field advantage: British fans of, yes, the beloved British sci fi series Doctor Who will have a 24-hour head start on the sendoff to Tenth Doctor David Tennant, The End of Time, which airs on BBC America on Dec. 26.

12:24PM Fri. Dec. 18, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

I'll be honest, I'm still exhausted from our marathon romp through the Independent Games Festival nominees. But that doesn't mean the free browser games stop coming. Here's a game that might just help you get through the holidays with your family. It's called 5 Minutes to Kill (Yourself).

3:33PM Thu. Dec. 17, 2009, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

AFCA Announces 2009 Awards

J.J. Abrams' relaunched Star Trek came in second place in the Austin Film Critics Association best movies of the year poll (announced today), thus narrowly avoiding the rumored resignation of more than one member**. Instead, top honors went to Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, which continues its domination of year-end awards.

12:59PM Wed. Dec. 16, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Peach Pit, Briston Maroney, Bnny

Moody Amphitheater

Happy Together + God’s Own Country at Paramount Theatre

Showgirls
at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Can You Dig It?!

Walter Hill's 1979 gang-warfare flick The Warriors is, hands (and knives, baseball bats, and bullets) down our favorite Big, Rotten Apple Movie. It captured a definitively unpretty moment in New York City's gritty history and top-loaded it with with everything from Greek mythopoeics to cooly surreal action set-pieces and gutter panache.

10:12AM Wed. Dec. 16, 2009, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

Here it is folks, the last installment in my Independent Games Festival competition roundup. All in all I've looked at 303 games (most of which were unfinished or required downloading) that are readily playable on your browser. Today all games with names starting with letters "T" through "Z" get the once over.

4:34PM Thu. Dec. 10, 2009, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Sundance announced its 2010 short film program yesterday, and a handful of Texans made the cut, including Park City regulars the Zellner Bros.

12:41PM Tue. Dec. 8, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

We're approaching the home stretch for entrants in the Independent Games Festival. Was this a terrible idea? Maybe. But when you're looking at games 200-250 of 304 there's no turning back. And that's good for you, because there's some fine free online gaming to be had in letters "p" through "s."

5:26PM Thu. Dec. 3, 2009, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

This Season's Funniest New Show, 'The League'

I'll start by saying I haven't seen Glee and Modern Family, but it's safe to say this year's funniest new show is FX Networks' The League. Laugh-out-loud politically incorrect humor that pushes the bar of what's acceptable even in the murky waters of cable TV.

3:30PM Thu. Dec. 3, 2009, Mark Fagan Read More | Comment »

Bryan Poyser to Do the 'Dance

Just a few minutes ago, word came down from the mountain – you know, the one(s) in Park City, Utah – announcing the 2010 Sundance Film Festival competition film lineup. Making the cut this year? Austin native son Bryan Poyser.

3:28PM Wed. Dec. 2, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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