Texas Book Festival Unveils Full Author Lineup for 2024

Matthew McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell headline

"...Jesse Katz, The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder and Redemption in Immigrant LA..."

Sept. 19, 2024 Books Post by Amaya Austin

Storytelling, a Book Trail, Markets, and More Arts Events

Get reading, go shopping, or just enjoy a gala this week

"...and rice plantations made white landowners enormously wealthy. The exploitation did not stop after the Civil War. A century..."

April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: Satan Wants You

The Satanic panic as a guidebook to the dangers of crazy conspiracies

"...how the Satanic panic opened the door for systemic exploitation in law enforcement and religious communities...."

March 12, 2023 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

Jay Trachtenberg’s Top Books of 2021

In a lost year, retrospectives and reprints with new context were comfort reads

"...and friends tells the unlikely tale of how local cinema nerds turned their obsession with low-budget exploitation movies into..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

SXSW Online to Feature Stacey Abrams and N. K. Jemisin in Conversation

James Cameron, Ted Lasso team, Bill Hader also announced

"...crime syndicates jockeying to control an alternate economy of exploitation and graft while fighting for a piece of the..."

Feb. 11, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Robert Rodriguez Brings Big Dad Energy to We Can Be Heroes

Sharkboy and Lavagirl return to pass the torch to a younger generation of heroes

"...to call him the king of Tex-Mex carnage for neo-exploitation titles like Machete Kills and Desperado. But he's spent..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson

A life in the grindhouse is not obscured by a tragic death

"...how does a documentary not cross the line into exploitation? In the case of Blood & Flesh: The Reel..."

Aug. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd

Teen film Summer Nights needs your help

"...What's the project? Inspired by 1950s teen exploitation films like The Violent Years, local filmmaker Erik Olson..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Column by Savannah J Salazar

Zack Carlson Cracks the Vault on Terror Tuesdays at the Drafthouse

Wild and weird movie expert on the underground horror phenom

"...Thursdays as a complement to Lars Nilsen's Weird Wednesdays exploitation screenings. But she already had her hands full with..."

Jan. 29, 2019 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Holiday Viewing: Black Christmas

The giving season can be murder in the original slasher

"...better. Director Bob Clark had emerged out of the cinematic swamps of Florida with drive-in fodder like She-Man, and..."

Dec. 2, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Back From the Dead

Stephen Romano cheats the grim reaper to launch Eibon Press

"...Seen, a massive, grimily illustrated alternate history of grindhouse cinema. What can we say? The guy doesn't appear to..."

July 15, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: A Christmas Horror Story

Seasonal horror anthology is a holiday delight

"...resolution (with a clear nod to another Canadian seasonal exploitation classic) that will warm the dark cockles of the..."

Dec. 21, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cats

Two Italian retellings of the American horror classic

"...Farmer) and visiting detective Inspector Gorley (another imported Italian exploitation icon, The Beyond's David Warbeck) to prove that something..."

Oct. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2015: "Portal to Hell"

Down in the depths with Roddy Piper

"..."That was everything I rented and went to the cinema to watch." Over time, he fell further into comedy,..."

Sept. 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Unleashes Final Wave

New films from Charlie Kaufman and Owen Egerton join fest

"...Refn will be showing off his book of classic exploitation posters. Now, former Drafthouse booker Kier-La Janisse brings her..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: If There Be Thorns

Dear Lifetime, we need to talk

"...This may be backyard drama as cinema, but at least it's trying. All American Bully poses..."

July 15, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

‘No No’ nabs distribution, Google Glass gets the boot, & more film news

"...newly hired as Chief Brand Officer of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. He’ll oversee the branding and strategy of the Drafthouse..."

June 12, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Damage Before the Blue Ruin

Actor Macon Blair talks revenge and homelessness in the new thriller

"...drifter who suddenly becomes a killing machine is a cinema standard. What makes it more disturbing is that the..."

April 24, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'Among the Living'

'Stand by Me' and then die by me

"...primer on the evolving state of France's nouveau guignol cinema, and this newest offering is a bloody good capstone,..."

March 13, 2014 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Nacho Average Thriller

Elijah Wood and Nacho Vigalondo update 'Rear Window' for the Digital Age

"...an unofficial trilogy of Wood movies playing with the cinematic fourth wall. First there was 2012's remake of sleazeploitation..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Watching the Watchmen

A crash course in privacy, in case you've been (not unreasonably) living under a rock

"...mobile devices, streaming music and video, and high-definition media. Cinema, television, and music are all now created, stored, and..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

'From Dusk Till Dawn' Returns

Everybody be cool. We've got an exclusive image from the new show.

"...one and only Fred Williamson. Talk about your definitive cinematic badass: A former defensive linesman for the Pittsburgh Steelers,..."

Feb. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Demons' / 'Witchboard'

Director Kevin S. Tenney talks scream queens and classic posters

"...firm quickly establishing itself as the gold standard for exploitation and horror...."

Feb. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Dark Touch' / 'Argento's Dracula'

Two very different dances with Irish Gothic

"...that mold. The screenplay (written by Argento, veteran modern exploitation producer Enrique Cerezo, horror writer Antonio Tentori and TV..."

Feb. 1, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: What's Your Point of View?

For Halloween, some beastly releases of the haunting month

"...the various filmmakers fall prey to all the standard sexploitation tropes (as in, more unnecessary topless shots than a..."

Oct. 20, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Takes a Trip With Ruggero Deodato

Italian found footage pioneer joins Coffin Joe and more

"...With Brazilian horror pioneer Coffin Joe and German shock cinema auteur Jörg Buttgereit already announced as special directorial guests..."

Sept. 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Lords of Salem'

Or, in defense of Rob Zombie as a filmmaker

"...his five live action films (all steeped in vintage cinema lore and gore), and even his Ralph Bakshi animated..."

Sept. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tonight: Miles Arceneaux and Stephen Romano at BookPeople

Start your October off write

"...Also on hand will be Austin-based author, screenwriter, cinema scholar, and artist Stephen Romano whose new novel Resurrection..."

Oct. 1, 2012 Books Post by Marc Savlov

The Fall Film Festival Season Takes Flight

Programming updates from AFF, Fantastic Fest, and aGLIFF

"...An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films...."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Voyeur Discretion Advised

Hot town, smut in the city

"...the Russian premier get into an argument about whose cinema is better, they get mad at each other, and..."

June 24, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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