“In here, life is beautiful, the girls are beautiful, even the orchestra is beautiful!” Joel Grey’s emcee beckons from the cool darkness of the Kit Kat Club’s stage.
Read MoreAronofsky has met and exceeded the hype, crafting a crime thriller with real emotional heft.
Read MoreEve of Destruction feels like a literal blast from a video store past. Part 90s action flick, part cautionary tale of the near future, it’s also a lean melodrama with just enough complexity to withstand its 90-minute run time.
Read MoreIn 28 Years Later, the year is 2031. It’s the end of the world.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 8/22-8/28.
Read MoreZach Cregger’s Weapons places a neat spin on a typical horror story, mixing up the standard ingredients of children in danger, a small town torn apart, and interconnecting storylines.
Read MoreTogether takes the audience through a relationship journey full of attachment issues and bone-chilling body horror.
Read MoreThematically, the restoration of Kurosawa’s filmography is analogous to the reconstruction of his home country Japan, post-World War II. This rectification sentiment is a significant theme in Kurosawa’s noir Stray Dog (1949).
Read MoreIn 1974, the world was crying out… for snakes. One brave sound mixer by the name(s) of Art Names would answer that call with his sole directorial project: Snakes (aka Fangs.)
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 8/15-8/21.
Read MoreWelcome to the Dollhouse is a coming-of-age dark comedy film from 1995 that ideally, you would not find relatable.
Read MoreHigh and Low asks: what is the cost of a man’s soul?
Read MoreThirty years after its premiere, Now and Then maintains relevance in an entertainment landscape that often still fails to provide authentic stories for and about young women.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 8/8-8/15.
Read MoreWhether I Know What You Did Last Summer was going for a camp classic in its revival or a meta-commentary on Hollywood’s wave of reboots and sequels, there is still much to be desired in the film’s attempt to hook into either idea.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 8/1-8/7.
Read MoreA hypnotic meditation on life, death, history, fate, faith and the role of the artist in society, Andrei Rublev is like few movies I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreWriting a plot summary for a movie like this made me feel like I was having a mental breakdown.
Read MoreIt is said by someone, somewhere, at some time in history, that if the eyes are the windows into the soul, the hands point to the path of the divine. But what happens when a person loses their hands?
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 7/25-7/31.
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