Austin Filmmakers Head to Tribeca

Local films Leads and Man Finds Tape are NYC bound

"...New York's Tribeca Festival has just announced its 2025 lineup, and it's big..."

April 16, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Michelle Rodriguez, Noah Hawley, and the Leagues to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame

AFS to hold its biggest fundraiser at March 6 ceremony

"...• The epitome of the cinematic badass, San Antonio..."

Jan. 29, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

La Doña, Geto Gala, the Queen of Christmas, and More Crucial Concerts

Plan your week in live music

"...Oregonian might even sample ATX. Both Chamber Music Society (2010) and Radio Music Society (2012) manifested at a piano..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Fantastic Fest Review: The Spirit of Halloweentown

Documentary heads to where the Disney Channel fave was shot

"...That's the message of The Spirit of Halloweentown, the Fantastic Fest-selected documentary about how a nothing-happening burg keeps borrowing..."

Sept. 30, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Azrael

Samara Weaving stars in E.L. Katz’s folkloric horror

"...previously ran during the 2024 SXSW Film & Television Festival...."

Sept. 27, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Announces 2024 Lineup

Love of out-there cinema brings Terrifier 3, The Wild Robot

"...robots, and the sound of chainsaws echoing across Austin! Fantastic Fest, the Alamo Drafthouse’s celebration of the best of..."

Aug. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Goes Console Crazy With Fantastic Games

New gaming showcase presented by Day of the Devs

"...Fantastic Fest is moving back into gaming with the addition..."

July 30, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Indie Game Celebration Fantastic Arcade Returns

The Fun Size edition comes to the Baker Center in October

"...Some fantastic news – quite literally. Indie gaming fest Fantastic Arcade..."

July 29, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Azrael

The left behind navigate a supernatural horror

"...Modern silent movies have been a little bit of..."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Amid Controversy, Road House Remake Tapped to Open SXSW Film

Doug Liman to skip premiere in protest of Amazon MGM

"...mind your manners at South by Southwest: The film festival has just announced that the remake of Road House,..."

Jan. 25, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Artificial Eye: Oren Soffer on Filming The Creator

Behind the camera of Gareth Edward's revolutionary sci fi blockbuster

"...The film debuted at Fantastic Fest this year and arrives this week on 4K..."

Dec. 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Dan Brown Created Neo-Noir Your Lucky Day

Director and his star and composer on the twisty thriller

"...The Christmas neo-noir (which debuted at this year's Fantastic Fest and is on VOD now) is the story..."

Nov. 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Cobweb

Song Kang-ho in the touching tragedy of a failing director

"...As with any film festival, when attending Fantastic Fest, one should always ignore the..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Fantastic Fest Review: Saw X

Least-secret secret screening still has some twists

"...Fantastic Fest prides itself on keeping its secret screenings secret...."

Sept. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Suitable Flesh

Skinamax and body-swapping horror slide into each other

"...Not just that, but Lynch remembers that one of..."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Animalia

Lyrical and beautiful alien invasion flick looks inwards

"...Animalia feels like it fell from the same constellation..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Joe Lynch Is Bringing Sexy Back With Suitable Flesh

Fantastic Fest veteran gets carnal and cosmic in this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation

"...of expectation to his movies. The filmmaker made his Fantastic Fest debut in 2007 with the U.S. premiere of..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

How Austin Made DC’s Blue Beetle Fly

Director and Fantastic Fest regular Ángel Manuel Soto reveals his own secret origin

"...that landed him a job doing audiovisual work at Fantastic Fest 2010, "which changed my life." In 2015, he..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...its world premiere as the opening night film for Fantastic Fest 2023...."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tribeca Film Review: Suitable Flesh

Heather Graham and Barbara Crampton bring sexy back

"...Not just that, but Lynch remembers that one of..."

June 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lynch/Oz

Is David Lynch's whole career an homage to The Wizard of Oz?

June 30, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Owen Egerton, Austin's Man of Letters, Leaves the Community He Loves

An increasingly unwelcoming Texas leads to a big goodbye

"...And not just through his support for the written..."

June 30, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Secret Splendors of Black Emanuelle

New box set and a special AFS screening set to reappraise the Italian sexploitation series

"...The former Alamo Drafthouse booker and Woodlands Dark and..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Life, Loss, and William Shatner

In You Can Call Me Bill, documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe examines the philosophy of the man who keeps boldly going

"...It's obvious why Alexandre O. Philippe would want to..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...ensembles, K-pop collectives – it’s all here for your Festival scheduling...."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Mystery Switches and Other Hidden Secrets of Shin Ultraman

How director Shinji Higuchi made a very loyal reboot

"...Alamo Drafthouse that doubles as a press suite during Fantastic Fest, he grins as he grabs a Sharpie, some..."

Jan. 7, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Lynch/Oz

How the Wizard of Oz shaped the Blue Velvet director

"...True, his debut feature, The People vs. George Lucas,..."

Sept. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Moseying Out Into the Multiverse With the Quantum Cowboys

Geoff Marslett probes memory and the many-worlds theory in his new animated mind-bender at AFS Cinema

"...receives its Austin premiere at AFS Cinema, presented by Fantastic Fest. [inset-1-right]..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

How Dean Fleischer-Camp Brought Marcel the Shell With Shoes On to Life

Inside the secret life of the stop-motion smash

"...deviant, disturbing masterpiece. Marcel – spinning out from the 2010 short and its two sequels that Fleischer-Camp made with..."

July 21, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tribeca Film Festival Review: Lynch/Oz

Six different paths from Kansas to Wild at Heart

"...True, his debut feature, The People vs. George Lucas,..."

June 9, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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