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The Saw Is Family! City Celebrates The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s 50th Anniversary

October 11, 1974: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre rips into cinemas, changing horror and putting Austin on the filmmaking map. Fifty years later, Mayor Kirk Watson and Council Member Paige Ellis hosted a ceremony announcing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre day.

6:33PM Sun. Oct. 13, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Texas Senate Warms Up to Film Incentives After Taylor Sheridan's Testimony

We're months away from the next legislative session, but the Texas Senate Finance Committee was busy yesterday with a long and star-studded hearing about how to attract more film and TV production to the Lone Star State.

3:11PM Thu. Oct. 10, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Live From Saturday Night, It’s Jason Reitman!

Imagine a movie about an era-defining experiment by a visionary who battled the establishment, aided and hindered by an endless cavalcade of supporting characters who would all merit their own biopic. Basically, Saturday Night is comedy’s Oppenheimer.

7:05AM Thu. Oct. 10, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

No Kings, Kick Out the Clowns

Texas State Capitol

Body Rock ATX (Prince tribute) w/ DJ Chorizo Funk & Riders Against the Storm at Parish

Babestock Day 1 w/ Kayristin, Jenny Voss, Black Daria, DJ La Moon, more [outside]; Baby Kush, CLINK!, Bunny G, more [inside] at Cheer Up Charlies

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

City of Austin to Proclaim The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day

It's been 50 years since The Texas Chain Saw Massacre first terrified audiences. Now the locally-filmed classic is getting a home town celebration as the City of Austin proclaims Oct. 11 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day.

8:00AM Mon. Oct. 7, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson Become A Different Man

When people talk about bad habits, is it the “bad” or the “habit” part that’s worse?

2:57PM Thu. Oct. 3, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

To Infinity and V/H/S/Beyond

The V/H/S horror anthology series began with the vintage technology of VHS camcorders and found footage on video tapes. Now it's started its own high tech space race with the latest film in the series, V/H/S/Beyond.

3:55PM Wed. Oct. 2, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Into the Woods With Penelope

Back during this year’s South by Southwest, Mark Duplass and Duplass Brothers Productions CEO Mel Eslyn debuted a slate of independent TV shows – small productions in search of a TV station or streaming home.

3:22PM Tue. Oct. 1, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Bring Them Down

Fences make good neighbors, as the saying goes. But farming doesn’t always allow for fences, especially sheep farming in places like Ireland, where shared or common land is an essential asset.

10:43AM Tue. Oct. 1, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Witte Wieven

Mist and mystery are often at the heart of great folk horror. That twist of ambiguity, the thing glimpsed at the corner of the eye or between the trees, is part of the witchy power of enigmatic Dutch period chiller Witte Wieven,

10:49PM Mon. Sep. 30, 2024, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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