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Fantastic Fest Review: Sadako vs. Kayako

The horror crossover is a dangerous beast. From the lousy House of Frankenstein to the unwatchable Freddy vs. Jason, they're usually a monstrous hybrid that consumes its creator. Not so with Sadako vs. Kayako, finally mashing together Ring and The Grudge.

2:35PM Wed. Sep. 28, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Don't Kill It

Here's a simple rule. When your small Mississipi town has a plague of triple homicides caused by a body-hopping demon, and Dolph Lundgren tells you Don't Kill It, you don't kill it. Capisce?

9:00AM Wed. Sep. 28, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Fashionista

Call Fashionista a thrift-store The Neon Demon. But that's not an insult, or a budgetary commentary. Both fixate on fashion in a manner as stylized as couture itself, just from very different ends of the discount rack.

4:45PM Tue. Sep. 27, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Red Shoes + Black Swan

Paramount Theatre

Squirrel Flower, Free Range, Lefty Parker at Hole in the Wall

Craft at the Umlauf: Paper Filigree With Michael Velliquette at Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Fantastic Fest Review: The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour’s follow-up to her riveting filmmaking debut, the feminist vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is this fascinating post-apocalyptic cannibal survival tale, The Bad Batch. Although a bit shaggier than her first attention-getting debut, The Bad Batch is nevertheless a compelling work.

12:00PM Tue. Sep. 27, 2016, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Society Announces Design Firm Partnership

Austin Film Society has partnered with design firm Designtrait and architect Michael Hsu to turn the Marchesa building into a fulltime arthouse cinema with a distinct “Austin-vibe” (according to the press release). The renovations will feature a second cinema and a redesigned lounge and bar. The shiny, new theatre is scheduled to open in early 2017.

10:00AM Tue. Sep. 27, 2016, Will McCarthy Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: The Lure

A gloriously genre-defying mashup of melodrama, romance, musical, and cultural subtext masquerading as a horror film, The Lure is utterly original and alluring even as director Agnieszka Smoczynska puts the ghastly in fishnets.

6:30PM Mon. Sep. 26, 2016, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Assassination Classroom: Graduation

In Assassination Classroom: Graduation, the flunkie students of Class 3-E return to finish what they started: studying to kill an invincible alien bent on world destruction, who just happens to be their teacher.

6:00PM Mon. Sep. 26, 2016, Dan Gentile Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Dearest Sister

There’ve been plenty of tips on surviving horror movies. Stay awake. Don’t smoke weed. Keep clothed. Don’t be a teenager. If your new house is haunted, leave. But what do you do if you’re not sure who to fear? Mattie Do’s new film, Dearest Sister, provides no clear answer, but it is creepy as hell.

5:05PM Mon. Sep. 26, 2016, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Helmut Berger, Actor

There actually isn’t much of a plot or direction to Andreas Horvath’s Dalian portrait of actor, Austrian film icon and Luchino Visconti muse/lover Helmut Berger.

4:10PM Mon. Sep. 26, 2016, Kahron Spearman Read More | Comment »

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