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Ladies and Gentlemen (and Deer) ... The Highball!

Fantastic Fest Day Zero kicked off with a press screening of Zombieland and the grand opening of The Highball, bowling alley/bar/karaoke heaven/Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar adjunct, and -- whoa! -- deer, lasers, and enough crimson vinyl to outfit Winger, Warrant, and Whitesnake!

9:46PM Wed. Sep. 23, 2009, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: The Future of 3D

If you're a local not already possessing an almighty (and long sold-out) badge to Fantastic Fest, you've still got a few options. Such as: Sunday's half-day of panels devoted to the future of 3D technology – a future so bright we had to wear shades for just about half the movies we saw this summer, it seemed.

3:10PM Wed. Sep. 23, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: Dr. Ronald Chevalier at BookPeople

Reading is fundamental, sure, but Friday's reading at BookPeople is fundamentally a lie – a really fun lie, we should add. Because when you see Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) at BookPeople on Friday, he'll be in character as the entirely fictitious sci-fi/fantasy novelist Dr. Ronald Chevalier.

1:59PM Wed. Sep. 23, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Star Wars Trivia

Pinthouse Pizza

One Crazy Summer
at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

Tribulation, Early Moods, Final Gasp, Unreqvited at Come & Take It Live

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Even Better Than the Real Thing?

With the computing power crammed into next-gen platforms (PlayStation3 and Xbox 360) it's no wonder that after millions of development dollars a game can approximate reality in ways only seen in movies with meticulously finessed computer effects. Three new games – WET, NHL 2K10, and Need for Speed: Shift – prove that reality can be elusive.

10:52AM Fri. Sep. 18, 2009, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

This Week's Waste of Time

If on the off-chance that all the gaming options given to you by the Game Developers Conference in town are already boring you (see yesterday's blog for those links) I offer two online games by Gregory Weir of Ludus Novus. Weir creates small games that require exploration and sometimes repetition … in a good way.

1:59PM Thu. Sep. 17, 2009, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

Linked on Austin Game Developers Conference

Now that the Austin Game Developers Conference is almost over wouldn't you like to feel like you're in the know and hip to all the cool games that were talked about. Well, I can't really help, but here are some links that might.

3:59PM Wed. Sep. 16, 2009, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

Rock Out With Your Dogs Out

It’s been a few days now since the release of Beatles Rock Band, and your wrists and knees probably need a break. The good news? A short ergonomic vacation from unlocking new challenges doesn’t have to mean a total halt to your celebration of fine, electronic cover bands. Soon you’ll be able to tag in the 1980s original, the Rock-afire Explosion.

12:08PM Wed. Sep. 16, 2009, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

Mama Was a Rodeo

In his previous films, Bradley Beesley has turned a camera on subjects who are chafing at society’s strictures – catfish noodlers neigh-saying the rod-and-reel norm; those gonzo Flaming Lippers, kissing off radio rock – but in his latest, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, his subjects are quite literally bucking – and behind bars.

11:38AM Wed. Sep. 16, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest to Kick off Nationwide Sneaks of ‘Paranormal Activity’

OK, so we like to front like we’re tough, but fact is, we’re an awful wimp when it comes to scary movies. Case in point: Our colleague Marc Savlov – good man – had to pre-screen a stack of Fantastic Fest films for us and let us know which ones were, um, not liable to give us an awful case of the oogly-booglies.

10:32PM Tue. Sep. 15, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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