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I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but if you had anything remotely nice to say about the ScarJo adaptation of Ghost in the Shell (which I refuse to call anything other than “White Savior Complex”), we probably aren’t going to be friends. Alamo Mueller is doing everyone and their mom a favor screening the sequel to the cult classic original anime film that forces us to confront the moral quandary of forcing humanoid beings to do our dirty work, then dispose of them when they become obsolete to their human makers. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the trope has been done and redone in almost every form of popular media, and it all started with a Japanese animation from 1995. – Cy White

Hyperreal Film Club’s Monday night residency at Hotel Vegas is coming to an end – but fear not, for the club is on to bigger things. Before three scrappy cinephiles open Austin’s newest brick-and-mortar theatre on Chicon this September, come see them off for one last hurrah at Vegas with All That Jazz, a semiautobiographical 1979 romp into the world of musical production by legendary choreographer Bob Fosse. Before the feature, catch one of the coolest perks of a Hyperreal screening – a locally made short film at 8pm. Tickets are sliding scale, $5-10, and all proceeds go toward future programming at Austin’s newest theatre. Long live the movie nerd community! – Lina Fisher

Although we lost the cool post office at 43rd & Speedway, we gained the lovely First Light Books offering coffee, books, and excellent literary events like this. Filmmaker Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) has a new film out this week, The Bikeriders, inspired by Jeff Lyon’s 1968 book of the same name, about an infamous Chicago motorcycle club. Local photographer Bryan Schutmaat visited the set to capture the making of the film with an all-star cast including Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, and Norman Reedus, and the new book Vandals combines those with script excerpts and behind-the-scenes info. See the director and photographer in conversation at this event that includes a copy of the book. – Kat McNevins

Nine years ago, a Supreme Court ruling made same-sex marriage legal in the U.S. of A. While progress has been up and down since then – oof, actually it’s been more down than up – the historic moment marked a turning point for the queer community legislatively. As the office who issued Texas’ first gay marriage license, the Travis County Clerk’s Office celebrates the 2015 ruling with a whole week of free wedding ceremonies. Check countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov for further details on marriage license deadlines, specific locations, and other bureaucratic minutiae – and I’ll bring the rice! – James Scott

Lay back with a Vacancy brew – perhaps one of their this-month-only special releases of their classic June Hill pilsner – for a movie night featuring one of these queer classics: But I’m a Cheerleader (6/10), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (6/17), and Bottoms (6/24).

“I feel we’re all fortunate to be living in a time in history where we have access to technology that can keep us connected despite physical limits.” So wrote Sydney Wright, checking in with the Chronicle during the pandemic. Snyder, Texas, journeywoman to UNT for ethnomusicology and now veteran ATX pop genie, the singer and live music engineer continues fusing a digital roots matrix locally. March single “Fly” soars her breathy electro vulnerability over thick Lone Star grounding from homegrown Graham Wilkinson and Kalu James. Stylish and intimate, Wright’s urbane realness feels ready-made for Hotel Van Zandt’s swanky listening/dining room. – Raoul Hernandez

One of my stances – there are many – is that there should be no boring movies, ever. You can say a lot about Pedro Almodóvar’s controversial romance, which features Antonio Banderas as a lovesick kidnapper freshly released from his inpatient psychiatric stay and Victoria Abril as his film star object of affection, but you can never say it’s boring. Bold colors, a thought-provoking gender dynamic, and a BDSM miasma fogging up the lens: As his follow-up to Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Almodóvar chose a real queer-ass straight movie to make. Catch this Queer Film Theory 101 screening for June, or forever wonder what might have been. – James Scott