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  Jeopardy! Interactive

  “Modern Lingo.” “Celebrity Moms.” “TV Roles.” Recent Jeopardy! categories – or, more accurately, a recent evolution of my über-specific TikTok algorithm – have me convinced I could win this legendary trivia game. Now, thanks to a new interactive experience at Alamo Drafthouse, plebeians like myself can find out if we really are as smart as we think. Sitting in the theatre’s seats, not standing at a podium, single players use their personal devices to answer questions concocted by the real Jeopardy! writing team in this quiz game. You won’t win money, but there are prizes. – Carys Anderson

  Thu., April 24

  Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane

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  Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII (1972)

  The worst myth that concert films can possibly try to sell the cinema audience is that it’s just like being there. Well, apart from paying $15 for a soda, it’s not. There’s no one treading on your feet, no eight-foot point guard suddenly standing in front of you, and no one tunelessly screaming the wrong lyrics. So Pink Floyd’s legendary performance at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii doesn’t even try. It’s just the band, performing tracks from Meddle and Saucerful of Secrets, in a completely empty space that once held 20,000 screaming fans before being buried for nearly 1,700 years by ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius. – Richard Whittaker

  April 24 & 27

  Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane, Alamo Drafthouse Village

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  True Stories (1986)

  Dang it, David Byrne: You couldn’t stick to just being a musical genius. You had to go and make a Roger Ebert-approved picaresque cult classic too. True Stories is based on Byrne’s drawings of supermarket tabloid articles found on tour with the Talking Heads, and follows a cast of wacky characters as they navigate human drama in the fictional hamlet Virgil, Texas, set to a banging soundtrack featuring the likes of Meredith Monk, Terry Allen, and of course Talking Heads. John Goodman stars as Louis Fyne, a sad-sack romantic country singer/office worker looking for a wife, alongside a happily married couple who never speak to each other, one Miss Rollings who never leaves her bed, a manic conspiracist preacher, a Tejano singer who can hear people’s “tones” (as Byrne himself claimed to in college), and so many more. Byrne himself appears as a narrator in a red convertible, giving the film a kitschy storybook quality that lands thanks to its meticulous execution. Comforting in its absurdity, it’s a film that plants so many visual, auditory, and philosophical Easter eggs you can’t help but be inspired to make something afterwards. Austinite Anne Rapp, script supervisor on the film, joins AFS on April 24 to provide reminiscences of the shoot. – Lina Fisher

  April 24 & 27

  AFS Cinema

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  Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

  Crossovers are nothing new these days. In fact, is it really a movie without an unexpected and irrelevant cameo? But here’s a movie where every guest star was a real star. Every time two characters appeared onscreen, it was an almost impossible achievement of interstudio friendship. Yes, having Daffy Duck and Donald Duck acting in the same scene really was that big a deal. Oh, yeah, and it was a complete revolution in filmmaking, having cartoons and non-animated characters (that’s “real people” to you and me) interact in an utterly convincing way. It’s also the greatest introduction to film noir a kid can ever have, with Private Eye Eddie Valiant (a never-better Bob Hoskins) forced to partner with movie star and murder suspect Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer) to save Toon Town from a conspiracy that’s part Looney Tunes, part Chinatown. – Richard Whittaker

  April 17-27

  Doc's Drive In Theatre