The Lighter Side

Todd Smiley is the gaffer in Austin

"...and we could actually hear the dialogue from the drive-in movies. So I'd be lying in bed listening. It's..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

Austin Makes Moviemaker's List of Best Places for Filmmakers

But where in the rankings did it land?

"...part of the Sundance Film Festival, including a local drive-in screening at Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms, organized by the festival..."

Jan. 26, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rad Chad Lives!

Jeremy King, star of Scare Package, talks VHS heaven

"...was the whole Joe Bob explosion, and his Last Drive-In becoming such a huge deal on Shudder...."

Oct. 22, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

IPic Will Be Second Austin Cinema to Reopen

Local branch of luxury chain firing up starting June 11

"...limits, joined outside by the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In. All other theaters remain closed, as they have been..."

June 9, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Demons on the Set of Cursed Films

New series on Shudder asks why we want to believe in evil

"...to see a tornado touch ground at the local drive-in movie theatre during a screening of Jan de Bont's..."

April 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Beware the Jungle Trap

Director Jim Bryan on Hollywood's seedy and sublime

"...budget movies' most impactful transition. From sexploitation reels to drive-in horrors and video ninjas, he survived the sleaze cinema..."

July 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Documenting Extremes

Behind the scenes at Studio Ghibli and Kink.com

Jan. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Fun: Into the Mystic of High Road Pool

Plunging back in time with my iPod

"...was back when American highways were still concrete wonders, drive-in movies thrived, girls wore pony tails and poodle skirts..."

May 13, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Meet n' Greet

We attend Pride and Queerbomb meetings! And tell you about it!

"...official, and others adjacent). The rally is at Eastside Drive-in, and there was confirmation of table costs (F-R-E-E for..."

May 15, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

C3 Presents Beats New Brohemia, Advances to ASL Championship

'Say it ain’t so, Joe!'

Oct. 30, 2009 Sports Post by Mike Crissey

This Week's Recommended Arts Events

On walls, on screens, and in crates, get some culture this week

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Farewell to the Danger God: Gary Kent (1933-2023)

The stunt legend who called Austin home died this week

"...Kent became the go-to stunt coordinator and performer for drive-in, grindhouse, and exploitation directors like Richard Rush, Ray Dennis..."

May 26, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Penfold Theatre's Interactive Show The Control Group Lets You Fix the Future

The sci-fi drama by phone calls on you to correct a crisis in the time stream

"...admits to having started the summer by seeing a drive-in screening of Back to the Future). Rather than escape..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest Interview: Jim Cummings Hunts The Wolf of Snow Hollow

The actor and director talks bloody myths and drive-in premieres

"...under the strangest circumstances - at the Mission Tiki Drive-In in Los Angeles. "Q&As are really weird, because I..."

Sept. 30, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Monstrous Masterpiece Pig at Midnight

Adam Mason on the brief return of his extreme horror at SXSW

March 10, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Howling with The Pack

DVDanger runs with the dogs and wolves

"...begins more like a movie of the week than drive-in horror fare. “You used to love each other,” Richie..."

July 13, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Folk Music Fireball!

Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin

"...right about where Amy's is on Guadalupe was a drive-in burger joint called Lockhart's. And this kid's screaming, 'Elvis..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...of how the hippie idyll was exploited for the drive-in circuit). Writer/associate producer Kim Henkel and director/writer/producer Tobe Hooper..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Crimewave'

Sam Raimi's weirdest, plus nunsploitation and swinging sleazy London

"...week's coming attraction in DVDanger: A double bill of drive-in mayhem with The Town That Dreaded Sundown and The..."

May 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All Hail 'The Lords of Salem'

Rob Zombie on his fifth feature, a decade in the making

"...Zombie's earlier movies were a graphic throwback to drive-in horror and grindhouse psychedelia: With Lords, he changes tone,..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Raising Arizona

Arizona Dranes, the gospel beat, and the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

"...to 601 Airport, the former location of the Montopolis Drive-In Theater. In the late Sixties, black and white blind..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Vision and Focus

In the 'Undertow' with director David Gordon Green and first-time screenwriter Joe Conway

"...the late Eighties, early Nineties, I saw at the drive-in in the late Seventies [there's about a 12-year difference..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Identity Crisis

Looking back at the highlights of Austin's music scene in 2000.

"...rock thunder from newly anointed underground saviors At the Drive-In.6. Is That Your 'Gin & Juice'? The bizarre world..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Coming Soon

The Most Memorable Sex Scenes in Film

"...Fullerton: We should never have gone to that drive-in to see The Empire Strikes Back with Stripes playing..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Screens Feature

Books That Keep on Giving

Does It Come in Paperback?

"...646-page encyclopedia of cult classics, biker and slasher flicks, drive-in standards, blaxploitation, and low-budget horror and exploitation films is..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Dinos, Sharks, Muppets, and Lots of Fireworks Lead Our Recommended Events

Get ready for the Fourth or the weekend in general

"...of the car – the car wash and the drive-in movie – and who looks better covered in grease..."

July 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Austin's House Music Scene Clings to the African-American Community That Birthed It

House music rose to prominence from Chicago’s black music community and hangs on here in its original form

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Lebanon Calling

The Lebanese connection: ACL booker Charles Attal's bond with Zilker Park

"...Yank and the Iris – plus a string of drive-in movie theatres, a bowling alley, Campus Men's shop, and..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...Grind houses were often part of a greater drive-in movie/exploitation distribution circuit featuring all kinds of films. The..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Musicians on the Menu

In concert or in the kitchen, these locals have the chops

"...Young played drums and worked at Young's Root Beer Drive-In through high school and beyond. After stints in college..."

May 12, 2006 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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