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This Week in Screenings 7/24-7/30
This Week in Screenings 7/24-7/30

This week in Austin screenings 7/24-7/30.

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Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJuly 24, 2026Comment
The Dink Doesn't Hit Hard Enough
The Dink Doesn't Hit Hard Enough

The Dink simply exists halfway between a sports movie and a comedy, never thrilling enough to be the former, never funny enough to be the latter.

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ReviewsZiah GraceJuly 23, 2026The Dink, Jake Johnson, pickleball, Ed Harris, comedyComment
Evil Dead Burn Forgets to Have Fun in it's Hyper-Violence
Evil Dead Burn Forgets to Have Fun in it's Hyper-Violence

Evil Dead movies are so beloved because they’re fun. Burn seems to forget that. 

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ReviewsHannah DubbeJuly 21, 2026Evil Dead Burn, Evil Dead, Sébastien Vaniček, Sam Raimi, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, George Pullar, Souheila Yacoub, Erroll Shand, HorrorComment
Weird Wednesdays: Man in the Mirror
Weird Wednesdays: Man in the Mirror

Michael sounds like a Michael Jackson fan’s dream while Man In The Mirror sounds like an incredibly lacking, unintentionally funny ode to the King of Pop, and maybe both of those things are true, but Man In The Mirror has something that Michael definitely lacked: the courage to explore its hero, warts and all.

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Alamo Weird Wednesday, ReviewsDylan SamuelJuly 20, 2026Weird Wednesdays, Man in the Mirror, Michael Jackson, Allan MoyleComment
This Week in Screenings 7/17-7/23
This Week in Screenings 7/17-7/23

This week in Austin screenings 7/17-7/23.

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Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJuly 17, 2026Comment
Weird Wednesdays: Extra Terrestrial Visitors
Weird Wednesdays: Extra Terrestrial Visitors

While this is undeniably a poor movie, it is indeed fun to watch, but not taken as a representation of Juan Piquer Simón’s finest work.

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Alamo Weird Wednesday, ReviewsJackie StargroveJuly 15, 2026Juan Piquer SimónComment
The Odyssey: The Bronze Age Oppenheimer is Epic Blockbuster Filmmaking at its Finest
The Odyssey: The Bronze Age Oppenheimer is Epic Blockbuster Filmmaking at its Finest

For an adaptation of an ancient work, it is startling how much Nolan’s recontextualizing of Troy’s destruction speaks to societal failures we are living through over 2,000 years later.

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ReviewsJacob EthingtonJuly 15, 2026The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Oppenheimer, Benny Safdie, Robert Pattinson, Charlize TheronComment
Bubble, or, mundanity and its discontents
Bubble, or, mundanity and its discontents

This is no cloying tale of Americana, all wrapped in nostalgia and summertime haze. Clad in cool undertones, this is an ultra-realistic, dreary portrayal of life in rural small-town America, where mundanity and its discontents take center stage. 

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ReviewsTawanda CummingsJuly 14, 2026Bubble, Steven Soderbergh, Debbie Doebereiner, Dustin James Ashley, Misty Dawn WilkinsComment
Back to the Future Is Not About Time Travel. It’s About How Your Family is What You Make It.
Back to the Future Is Not About Time Travel. It’s About How Your Family is What You Make It.

Back to the Future is not about time travel. It is about the universe looking at the McFly family tree, sighing deeply, and sending an Appalachian Time Lord in a DeLorean to make sure the branches do not touch.

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Reviews, AnalysisJesse WilliamsJuly 13, 2026Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christoper Lloyd Comments
This Week in Screenings 7/10-7/16
This Week in Screenings 7/10-7/16

This week in Austin screenings 7/10-7/16.

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Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJuly 10, 2026Comment
Untamed: Tomboys in Paper Moon, My Life as a Dog, and Little Giants
Untamed: Tomboys in Paper Moon, My Life as a Dog, and Little Giants

The tomboy continues to endure as an endearing character in film. A tomboy is an empowered girl who is resilient, courageous, and daring.

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AnalysisPaul FeinsteinJuly 9, 2026Paper Moon, My Life as a Dog, Little Giants, tomboys, Tatum O'Neal, Ryan O'Neal, Melinda Kinnaman, Shawna Waldron, footballComment
Supergirl: Galaxy Globe-trotting Fun That's Unable to Reach the Heights of its Hero
Supergirl: Galaxy Globe-trotting Fun That's Unable to Reach the Heights of its Hero

Truth be told there’s a lot to like here, but unfortunately the movie kinda whiffs a lot more.

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ReviewsBlake WilliamsJuly 7, 2026Supergirl, Craig Gillespie, Milly Alcock, Jason Momoa, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Gunn, DCU, SupermanComment
Weird Wednesdays: Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven
Weird Wednesdays: Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven

I’m not sure about Penny Slot, but I’m pretty sure that Showgirls 2 is a gift from heaven. Doubly so for the woman who created it.

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Alamo Weird Wednesday, ReviewsJackie StargroveJuly 6, 2026Weird Wednesdays, Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven, Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven, Joe Eszterhas, Rena Riffel, Elizabeth Berkley, Gina GershonComment
This Week in Screenings 7/3-7/9
This Week in Screenings 7/3-7/9

This week in Austin screenings 7/3-7/9.

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Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJuly 3, 2026Comment
Mid-20th Century Cities in Film
Mid-20th Century Cities in Film

The city landscape provides a unique backdrop to explore human experiences, and metropolitan films of the 1970s and 1980s reflected a significant shift in how society thought of city life.

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AnalysisAaryn StaffordJuly 2, 2026Cities, 20th century, Midnight Cowboy, Night of the Juggler, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The ConversationComment
Obsession: The Horror of the Male Gaze
Obsession: The Horror of the Male Gaze

Obsession offers a more existential terror by pulling no punches and offering no grace to its characters. But a predictable plot and messy construction can’t save the movie from itself.

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ReviewsAlix MamminaJuly 1, 2026Curry Barker, Inde NavarretteComment
The People vs The Toy: A Movie About The Thing Nobody Will Say Out Loud
The People vs The Toy: A Movie About The Thing Nobody Will Say Out Loud

The Toy accidentally lets Richard Pryor be Richard Pryor, not the cleaned-up, family-friendly studio product Pryor, but the Pryor who understood that being a black man in America meant performing a version of yourself that kept the room comfortable while the actual work happened somewhere behind your eyes.

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ReviewsJesse WilliamsJune 30, 2026The Toy, Richard Pryor, Richard Donnor, Jackie Gleason, Le JouetComment
This Week in Screenings 6/26-7/2
This Week in Screenings 6/26-7/2

This week in Austin screenings 6/26-7/2.

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Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJune 26, 2026Comment
The Invite: Dinner party, interrupted
The Invite: Dinner party, interrupted

Olivia Wilde’s The Invite might aim to be a meaningful excavation of a relationship on the rocks, but this marriage drama isn’t covering any new terrain.

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ReviewsAlix MamminaJune 26, 2026The Invite, Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Ed Norton, Penelope Cruz Comment
Girls Like Girls: A universally relatable tale of young sapphic love
Girls Like Girls: A universally relatable tale of young sapphic love

Hayley Kiyoko knows that not everyone watching Girls Like Girls was a teenage lesbian, but we all were teenagers at one point. We all dealt with a world that didn’t understand us in some way. And if we were lucky, at some point during those years we got to fall in love for the first time.

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ReviewsJackie StargroveJune 26, 2026Hayley Kiyoko, lesbian romance, LGBT, DebutComment
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