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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 »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Night of the Hunter

Paramount Theatre

Just for Teens: Captive Creatures at Terrazas Branch Library

Rainbow Girls, B.R. Lively at Radio/East

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

"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 »

Fantastic Fest 2015: Lazer Team

Not many indie comedies have 10 minutes of closing credits, but then not many indie comedies take five minutes to list their Indiegogo backers. Austin's web video pioneers Rooster Teeth wanted $650,000 to fund their first feature film Lazer Team, but ended up with $2.5 million, and the "thank you" screen is almost as long as the film.

3:55PM Wed. Oct. 7, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

AGFA Saving Something Weird

When Tim and Karrie League co-founded the American Genre Film Archive in 2009, it felt like a spiritual successor to Something Weird Video, home to low-budget cinema's greatest archive. With the sad death earlier last year of Mike Vraney, now AGFA is stepping into the breach to save his precious archive for a digital future.

2:40PM Wed. Oct. 7, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Eco 2015: Racing Extinction

"The worst thing you can do for the environment is make a film about it." When director Louie Psihoyos says this about his new documentary Racing Extinction, he's talking about his carbon footprint. But those emissions were necessary to tell a tale of imminent global environmental threat.

9:00AM Wed. Oct. 7, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

HBO's The Leftovers Premieres at the Paramount

At this point, Austin is no stranger to having television shows shot in the area. HBO’s The Leftovers, the latest entry to the list, showed off its wares Saturday night with the premiere of season 2.

4:45PM Mon. Oct. 5, 2015, Rod Machen Read More | Comment »

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