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DVDanger: The Midnight After

It’s always refreshing to know that, once in a while, a film arrives that makes you genuinely wonder what the hell you just saw. Hong Kong oddity The Midnight After is a cannonball into a swimming pool of cinematic non sequiturs, and it is all the better for it.

9:00AM Sat. Jun. 25, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Summoning The Neon Demon

Repulsion and obsession are the opposing and attracting poles of the magnetic force of attraction. For haute couture horror The Neon Demon, director Nicolas Winding Refn wanted to dissect the terrifying power of beauty. He said, "We can’t run from the fact that what appalls us we’re equally drawn to."

11:30AM Fri. Jun. 24, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

American Crime Going Back to Cali

More bad news for Texas television production: Variety reports that ABC's American Crime, which shot its first two seasons in Austin, will be relocating to California for season 3, and it looks like production incentives are the culprit.

11:30AM Wed. Jun. 22, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Paramount Theatre

Anton Chekhov Is a Tasty Snack at Penfold Theatre

Amy’s Fest
at Bouldin Acres

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I Like to Watch

There is a rare but recurring mode, in Jenji Kohan productions, that could best be described as “destructive glory.”

5:10PM Tue. Jun. 21, 2016, Jacob Clifton Read More | Comment »

Unlocking the Secrets of Prisoner X

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself," as FDR said. When writer/director Gaurav Seth adapted post-9/11 sci-fi story “Truth” into his sci-fi thriller Prisoner X, he said, his purpose was “to understand this psychology of paranoia, and how dangerous it is, and how easy it is to exploit.”

12:00PM Tue. Jun. 21, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

WebFest Brings the Really Small Screen to the Big Screen

WebFest, a digital/web series festival, is coming back to Austin for a third year. Boasted as the only festival of its kind in Texas, this year the festival joins forces with Austin Creative Alliance to be considered for ACA’s sponsorship. This will allow the festival to apply for grants to bring WebFest to the next level.

9:30AM Tue. Jun. 21, 2016, Rivers Wright Read More | Comment »

Austin Game Devs Shine at E3

As the curtains closed on the Electronic Entertainment Expo on Thursday night, it marked the end of a transitional year for the 22nd annual gathering of the international video game industry in Los Angeles.

2:30PM Mon. Jun. 20, 2016, Tucker Whatley Read More | Comment »

DVDanger: Monsterland

Horror anthology Monsterland opens with a fine visual gag: a city street, filled with screaming, fleeing citizens, and one of those apocalyptic “the end is nigh” types with a sign that simply says “Told you so.” Let’s just say, you’ve been warned.

9:00AM Sat. Jun. 18, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Digging up the Raiders!

Cinema is built on remakes and homages. Yet a bunch of middle schoolers in Eighties Mississippi deciding to remake a movie that was itself an homage to a long-gone genre has become a story that deserves its own documentary.

9:00AM Fri. Jun. 17, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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