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DVDanger: Final Girl

Final girl (n.): trope in genre films of surviving female in a horror or thriller film; character that becomes toughened and skilled enough through their experience to overcome their assailant. Yeah, not in Final Girl, the third subversive horror in quick succession starring Abigail Breslin.

9:00AM Sat. Oct. 17, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

VIDEO: Fantastic Arcade Wrap Up

Take a look back at the festival that celebrates the unique, avant garde, and strange end of the video game spectrum. We chat with some of the developers about their gaming creations including Paloma Dawkins on her moss-controlled rhythm game, Thu Tran on cooking with the fires of hell, and Pietro Righi Riva on why Italy was so damn cool in the Seventies.

1:00PM Fri. Oct. 16, 2015, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

Comedy Central's Nathan for You Returns

If you ask someone if they like Nathan Fielder, chances are they’ll say, “Who’s Nathan Fielder?” Being unknown may be the key to his success. One would have to fly under the radar to be able to prank every small business in California.

2:00PM Wed. Oct. 14, 2015, Kat McNevins Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Showgirls

Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

Summer Storytime at the Blanton at The Blanton Museum of Art

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

The Future is Uncanny

When director Matthew Leutwyler watched Ex Machina, he got a sinking feeling in his chest. His micro-budget indie sci-fi drama Uncanny was covering so many of the same topics. However, Leutweyler said, "With what's going on in the AI world, there's a lot of discussions about where we're going."

1:20PM Wed. Oct. 14, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

DVDanger: We Are Still Here

The underlying myth of Halloween is that it is the time when the space between worlds is bridged, and the supernatural can walk among us. Grisly ghost story We Are Still Here develops its terrors by having the other side be constantly close at hand.

3:55PM Tue. Oct. 13, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Gets With The Program

The Austin Film Festival revealed its Closing Night film today, The Program, a biopic of controversial cyclist and local resident Lance Armstrong.

12:03PM Tue. Oct. 13, 2015, Josh Kupecki Read More | Comment »

DVDanger: June

If horror movies have taught us anything, it's that children are awful. From the prenatal peril of Rosemary's Baby to Carrie's graduation gore, the genre has become the ultimate argument for birth control. So, unsurprisingly, elementary school evil pervades every frame of June.

12:30PM Mon. Oct. 12, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

"Beyond Macondo"

A cinematic outpouring in Colombia motivates a monthlong film series at the Marchesa titled “Beyond Macondo,” a nod to the fictional town where epic novel A Hundred Years of Solitude unfolds.

2:00PM Thu. Oct. 8, 2015, Jordan Buckley Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest 2015: The Devil's Candy

Heavy metal and horror go hand in hand, but it also has a horrible history of turning gore into cheese (cough cough Trick or Treat cough cough). Hellraising headbanger The Devil's Candy embraces the madness in both, and becomes a true thrashing terror.

4:00PM Wed. Oct. 7, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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