Weird Wednesdays: Scream for Help, Michael Winner's Cherry Popping Good Time

Scream for Help is a sleazy, over-the-top, laugh-out-loud film that the Alamo Drafthouse programmer must’ve found at a VHS convention.

Weird Wednesdays: Gone With the Pope

A '70s low-budget vanity project from an aging cabaret performer sounds like something interminable and slack, released on 500 copies by some foreign VHS label, never to be seen again until showing up on Youtube in some smeary, unwatchable way. Remarkably, that's not at all what happened.

Alamo Weird Wednesday, ReviewsDave CowenJune 23, 2025Gone With the Pope, Duke Mitchell, Bob Murawski, Quentin TarantinoComment

Shakespeare Quote About A Summer’s Day - An Exploration of Summer Movies

It’s summer in Texas, so we all need something to do after we’ve been forced inside by the sun’s ultraviolet laser beams.

This Week in Screenings 6/20-6/26

This week in Austin screenings 6/20-6/26.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJune 20, 2025 Comments

5 Underrated Zombie Movies to Watch

Does the release of 28 Years Later have you itching to revisit the undead hits of yesteryear? Here’s 5 zombie movies you probably haven't seen yet.

Karate Kid: Legends: A Lackluster Continuation of a Classic Franchise

Karate Kid: Legends doesn’t live up to the hype created by its predecessors; however it’s still a decent watch for Karate Kid fans, especially those with children they’ve introduced to the franchise.

ReviewsLauren RosaJune 18, 2025Comment

IMFF ‘25: Agent of Happiness: Learning and Allowing

Agent of Happiness (2024), which screened at Indie Meme Fest 2025 takes place in Bhutan, a beautiful, small country with a unique policy: collecting and analyzing data on the happiness of its people.

Film Fests, ReviewsAP DwivediJune 17, 2025Agent of Happiness, DocumentaryComment

IMFF '25: Barah x Barah: Breaking the Fetters of Permanence

What does it mean that the industry of death photography is itself dying? Madan and Lahiri offer a wonderfully Asian response: Absolutely nothing.

Introducing Kyle Gallner, Indie Prince of Screams

Into the Gallnerverse

Lists, ReviewsLauren RosaJune 16, 2025Kyle Gallner, Smile, Smile 2, Jennifer's Body, Scream, Strange Darling, The Passenger, Red Eye, Dinner in AmericaComment

IMFF '25: Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman: Depersonalization as Relief

Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman is a psychological horror at the level of identity, and part of a powerful wave of tense, feminist indie horror in South Asian cinema.

This Week in Screenings 6/13-6/19

This week in Austin screenings 6/13-6/19.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJune 13, 2025Comment

Sharks, Boats, and Branded Innertubes: Dangerous Animals at Volente Beach

Dangerous Animals is director Sean Byrne’s newest film, coming ten years after his sophomore feature The Devil’s Candy.

Celine Song’s Materialists Searches for Meaning

In her follow-up to Past Lives, Celine Song crafts a visually polished rom-com that questions modern dating, ambition, and emotional connection—but struggles to ground its characters in real change.

ReviewsAlix MamminaJune 12, 2025dakota johnson, pedro pascal, chris evans, celine song, materialistsComment

Let’s (Not) Get Together

Neither movies or love are straightforward, which is why these kinds of romantic comedies tend to hit the hardest for me.

ReviewsMarian KansasJune 11, 2025Comment

Albert Murray as Key and Corrective to Sinners (2025)

In particular, Murray’s 1976 music criticism masterpiece, Stomping the Blues, makes the case for the syncretic spiritual power of the blues in a way that Coogler appears anxious to make: That there is a magic, a power, an incontrovertible life-giving energy to the blues not only as music but as a way of life.

AnalysisAkshaj TurebyluJune 10, 2025Sinners, Ryan Coogler, Albert MurrayComment

Film Notes: Pan's Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth is a movie to get lost in.

Film NotesJustin HarrisonJune 9, 2025pan's labyrinthComment

30 Years of Exotica: Holding up a Mirror to Emotional Isolation

Egoyan’s Exotica is fundamentally a story about grief, loneliness, and obsession. Although enduring loss is a universal experience, it is emotionally isolating.

This Week in Screenings 6/6-6/12

This week in Austin screenings 6/6-6/12.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJune 6, 2025Comment

The Brutalist: Imperial Expression Through Architecture

Brutalist architecture and the immigrant experience are on the surface, but the film is truly about homesteading, occupation, and the space buildings take from nature and other people.

ReviewsDavid TeraokaJune 5, 2025The Brutalist, Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Architecture, DramaComment

All That You Dream: Living in Oblivion

Tom DiCillo’s Living in Oblivion (1995) is a dark satire of independent filmmaking that reveals within the nightmare of production lies the dream of creativity.

ReviewsPaul FeinsteinJune 4, 2025Tom DiCillo, Peter Dinklage, Steve BuscemiComment

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