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A crossroad is a storytelling trope we’re all familiar with: Opportunity, deviation, free will; all conveyed with a single visual. Something similar can be said of a long stretch of road that spans horizons like the one River Phoenix finds himself on at the beginning and end of My Own Private Idaho
Read MoreNBA players appearing in movies has led to everything from classic films that have etched their way into the collective cultural history, to some of the truly worst movies ever made.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 2/23 - 2/29.
Read MoreIt’s very rare for there to be an overwhelming consensus regarding the legacy of films, but such is not the case for Stop Making Sense, which remains regarded as one of the greatest concert films of all time.
Read MoreIn the past decade, Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund has found art-house success by perfecting a heightened social realist style described as “a combination of Michael Haneke and Larry David.”
Read MoreWhile you wait for the rest of this month’s lovesuite screenings at Hyperreal Film Club, check out these five underlooked rom com gems.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 2/16 - 2/22
Read MoreMadame Web is at its best when it begs the question: what would happen if our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was instead a blood-thirsty serial killer?
Read MoreHere are six short cat films you can watch right now, each an intimate study of our feline friends through the eye of a different great artist.
Read MoreSomething Wild levels up a typical story with atypical moments of tenderness and a deeper exploration of who these two strangers become to one another, turning their chance meeting into a fated transformation.
Read MoreCowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door takes the time to put the crew out in the world and gives them the space to bounce off each other. Lonely as they may be, they live. They use their time.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 2/9-2/15.
Read MoreBefore dipping back into action, Bruce Willis chose to co-star with Goldie Hawn (!) and Meryl Streep (!!) in Death Becomes Her, a big budget, special effects-driven 1992 comedy.
Read MoreKathryn Newton shocks, slays, and amazes in the starring role of this charming monster rom-com.
Read MoreSenegalese fiction writer-turned-filmmaker Ousmane Sembene finds something alluring in the lives of these workers,
Read MoreA selection of Sundance 2024’s independent film offerings, from queer neo-noir Ponyboi, to the experimental AI-structured Eno, to Sasquatch Sunset’s Sasquatch pee.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 2/2-2/9
Read MoreVojtěch Jasný’s The Cassandra Cat highlights political hypocrisy in a mystical tale led by a cat wearing sunglasses.
Read MoreNew year, who dis? Oh, it’s movies? Great, come on in.
Read MoreFor the inaugural edition of Psychotronic Drive-In, we’re covering two Spanish films released in 1973: Attack of the Blind Dead and The Vampires’ Night Orgy. Both are spectacular examples of what makes Spain’s horror output in the 1960s and 1970s so compelling and unique.
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