We sat down with Nicole Elliott, co-director, star, and writer of Piper Meets a Psychopath, to chat about her writing process and In-N-Out versus Whataburger.

Justin NorrisJanuary 24, 2024Comment

Weird Wednesdays: Venus in Furs

Venus in Furs is jazz on film. It’s about the scenes you don’t show, baby.

Alamo Weird Wednesdayremus jacksonJanuary 23, 2024Venus in Furs, Jess Franco, James Darren, Klaus Kinski, Maria RohmComment

(Some of) The Best Movies about Movies

In honor of tonight’s screening of John Paizs’ Crime Wave, we’re running down some of our favorite movies about movies.

This Week in Screenings 1/19-1/25

This week in Austin community screenings.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJanuary 19, 2024 Comment

Flesh and Blood: An Exhaustive List of Actors who Have Portrayed Both Dracula and Van Helsing

How many actors have had the range and the opportunity to play both Count Dracula and his non-immortal-still-eternal nemesis Van Helsing? The answer may surprise you.

Atrocity Exhibition: The Continuing Resonances of Peeping Tom

More than 80 years later, Peeping Tom is still frighteningly relevant to the modern world and surveillance culture.

ReviewsDaniel PembertonJanuary 17, 2024Peeping Tom, Psycho, Michael Powell, Karlheinz "Carl" BoehmComment

Vampires Rule: Daybreakers as a Post-COVID “Boring Apocalypse” Movie

How did a 2009 vampire movie become one of the most relevant films for the post-Covid era? And what can Daybreakers teach us about society and the way we treat those most susceptible to a pandemic? Most importantly, who let Willem DaFoe do a southern accent?

Personal, ReviewsSarah SchusterJanuary 16, 2024Daybreakers, Willem DaFoe, Sam NeillComment

This Week in Screenings 1/12-1/18

This week in community screenings 1/12-1/18.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJanuary 12, 2024Comment

This Week in Screenings 1/5-1/11

This week in Austin screenings 1/5-1/11.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJanuary 5, 2024Comment

This Week in Screenings 12/29-1/4

This week in screenings 12/29-1/4.

James McDonaldDecember 29, 2023Comment

This Week in Screenings 12/22-12/28

This week in Austin screenings 12/22-12/28.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldDecember 22, 2023Comment

The Best Movies of 2023: Honorable Mentions & Editors' Choice

There are thousands of films released in a given year, and here at Hyperreal we want to recognize those unsung releases too—films that for one reason or another, didn’t crack the top 10, but that we felt deserved recognition, too.

The Best Movies of 2023: Top 10

90 voters. More than 120 movies. Hyperreal Film Club is proud to present our second annual Best Of List: A decisive, irrefutable list of the best films 2023 has to offer.

My Friends, the Trolls: A Review of Trolls: Band Together

Why is it when a jukebox musical for kids comes around ,everyone acts like they’re too good to watch it or they act like it’s beneath them? Trolls: Band Together is a movie I wish I had as a kid. A movie that makes you want to dance, move your body, and forget the troubles of the playground and be reminded that it’ll be okay.

Blake WilliamsDecember 18, 2023Comment

This Week in Screenings 12/15-12/21

This week in Austin screenings 12/15-12/21

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldDecember 15, 2023Comment

In Deep Focus: Five Easy Pieces

In this installment of In Deep Focus, writer Kellen Lowe takes a look at one of Jack Nicholson’s best performances as a a man adrift in his own life in Five Easy Pieces.

In Deep FocusKellen LoweDecember 14, 2023Comment

Bruno-Vision: Billy Bathgate and The Last Boy Scout

Bruno-Vision returns with a look at one largely forgotten Bruce Willis movie with a stacked cast and one still-underrated flick from style king Tony Scott and legendary writer Shane Black. Are they enough to turn around Willis’ (at this point) flagging career? Keep reading.

Bruno-VisionJordan HuntDecember 11, 2023Comment