Tickets go on sale tomorrow for a marathon of the IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, starring David Cross. Because it's the Alamo, and everything is awesome, Cross will be on hand to guide the audience through the first season (marathon-style). The event is on Saturday, Jan. 7 and begins at 9 p.m.

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret follows the story of Todd Margaret, a hapless office temp who somehow manages to con his way into a senior sales position for the energy drink company Thunder Muscle. The show guest stars folks like Will Arnett, Spike Jonze and Amber Tamblyn. Check out the (NSFW language) clip below, which features poor Margaret, energizing a mostly geriatric cafe crowd in London to display the effects of Thunder Muscle. more ›

As we wait for the flood of Oscar bait (which starts to really kick up next week), we get one more week that has its fair share of niche releases. The Drafthouse has some more popular 2011 Fantastic Fest titles to screen at the Alamo South Lamar, while the Violet Crown brings us an acclaimed French film fresh off a held over month-long run at New York's Film Forum. more ›

When you’re new to Austin, one of the first things you keep hearing is how YOU HAVE to check out Alamo Drafthouse, and considering the typical cinema experience you may be like, “Really guys, an absolute must-do is a movie theater?” more ›

There are not a lot of smaller films opening this weekend, but we can easily grant our highest recommendation to Weekend. Also, if reading about Margaret last week piqued your interest, you better make plans to see it by Thursday night. It's already down to two screenings a day at the Regal Arbor and is unlikely to make it to a third weekend in town. more ›

Director Lynn Hershman Leeson's acclaimed documentary took her 42 years to make. A leading voice and authority in the Feminist Art Movement, she's crafted this film with contemporary interviews and rarely seen historical footage. more ›

Film nerds can rejoice—you can get back to nursing those dreams and get a little film education this Sunday, when the Alamo Cinema Club hosts a screening of Ninotchka with film historian/UT professor/Austin Film Society co-founder Dr. Charles Ramirez Berg. Dr. Berg will enlighten us as to why this Greta Garbo comedy is considered a classic. more ›

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is inspired by the true story of Mark Yavorsky, a San Diego man so fixated upon Orestes, a character in Greek mythology, that he eventually killed his own mother with a sword. Herzog's film only loosely follows the events of Yavorsky’s psychological decline, but it deftly captures the mysteries and frustrations connected to mental illness. In some ways Brad’s behavior in the film is deeply frightening, but there are other emotions swirling around as well. Brad seems to have absorbed the utter craziness that the world is so often capable of, and with that he earns a bit of sympathy. more ›

Tonight the Alamo Ritz hosts a Best Of Soul Nite, curated by Peter Lucas. Here, you can see rare performance footage from a stellar list of artists (the Alamo site name-checks James Brown, Joe Tex, Lee Dorsey, Etta James, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Ike & Tina Turner). If this type of music moves you, you are in luck—shaking it in the aisles is highly encouraged. We would also recommend putting on some kind of interesting and/or classy soul-inspired outfit, because that would just add to the scene. more ›

“What does Marsellus Wallace look like?” “Bring out the gimp.” “Royale with cheese.” “Anytime’s a good time for pie.” If, like most members of this hipster nation generation, you grew up loving Quentin Tarantino’s award-winning neo-noir, then you might want to scurry on down to the Alamo Drafthouse Village or Ritz for some good old fashioned shouting at the screen. more ›

If you're like a good deal of us you may not have any kind of clue what you'll be doing for Halloween this year. Or, maybe it is just us. Regardless, over the the next few days we'd like to provide you with a hefty dose of options for you to partake around town that combines the wonderful world of film with a thematic relation to our country's greatest holiday that we don't get off from work. more ›

We think the "a" in aGLIFF actually stands for awesome. Not even a month after their 22nd film fest, the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival is hosting a screening of Bruce La Bruce's gay, artsy zombie film Otto; or, Up with Dead People this Sunday at the Alamo Ritz. This just so happens to be a brunch and, really, who doesn't love eating a breakfast/lunch hybrid while watching semi-civilized zombies disembowel rabbits and chew on cat tails? A picture of Otto (Jey Crisfar) and the words "gay," "zombie," and "film" are probably all that's needed to get a packed room at the Ritz, but we'll go into a little more detail. We all should have seen queer zombies coming from forever hip, usually controversial director Bruce La Bruce since he already brought us Give Piece of Ass a Chance and I Know What It's Like to Be Dead. Mixing the literal interpretation of those two titles results in the gist of Otto. more ›

Looking for a place to get your Body Movin’? This Thursday, Get it Together and head on down to the Alamo Downtown where you can Shake Your Rump with the Beastie Boys Singalong. more ›

Every Friday and almost-every-Saturday for the next four weeks the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz will host Master Pancake Theatre as they board something science fiction-y on their way to Mars (which has been scientifically identified as the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz) and lampoon the world of Philip K. Dick. There will be California Governors, Kuatos, and Sharon Stones at the mercy of the comedic minds of the Pancake troupe. more ›

Austin's delicious garage fashionista girl-group The Platforms are unveiling the video for their song "Hot Little Ride" tonight at the Alamo Ritz. more ›

Every year the most adventurous (and some say most interesting) people pack their RVs and head out to Black Rock City, Nevada for a week of wild times. It’s called Burning Man—one week a year where 30,000 people come out to the middle of the desert and create their own art and their own community, and do...whatever they want. And at the end, they burn a several-stories-high statue of a man and Black Rock City disappears. This weekend, you have a chance to check it out, as your Good Friends at the Alamo Ritz are screening Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock, a documentary pulling back the curtain and showing you just what Burning Man is; and more importantly, what it’s all about. more ›

The most overrated aspect of mainstream film is production quality—3, 2, 1 Kill! proved that in November when the improvised movie event was scripted, filmed, and edited live at the Alamo Ritz. Luckily enough for the film snobs among us—this script is so indie that it doesn’t even exist—3, 2, 1 Kill! returns to the Alamo Ritz this Sunday for another round of seat-of-its-pants storytelling. more ›

RSO [Registered Sex Offender], follows the unenviable life of one ex-convict, played by newbie Gabriel McIver, who must reintegrate into a world that has indefinitely deemed him a social leper. He must deal with all of the minutiae that all of these other sad, pitiful, white males that we love to capture on film must deal with, but with the dark cloud of criminal damnation hovering somewhere just above his brow, to humorous effect. We don't know what he did (just yet) but we are guessing that, in his case, the punishment and repulsion may not fit the crime. more ›

Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely follows the adventures of an American Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) who meets a charming Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) on the streets of Paris. Together, they travel to a commune populated exclusively by celebrity impersonators--a Neverlandesque place where everyone is famous, and the spotlight never fades. more ›

At a time when so many indie dramas focus on directionless white twenty-somethings, it's refreshing (if not downright invigorating) to see a film about two black twenty-somethings who have no ostensible interest in dancefighting, and who have plenty to say about relationships, identity, and cultural displacement. more ›

Let's admit something to each other right now--we love seeing heads explode. Don't fight it... it's a perfectly natural, healthy feeling. Probably an inherited vestige of our violent, primal past when bloody cranium blow-outs were necessary to ensure our collective survival. Or something. Anyhoo, this past weekend, audiences attending screenings of No Country For Old Men at the Alamo Ritz got a satisfying dose of messy 'splosions as the crew from Dorkbot Austin demonstrated... more ›

Blazing Saddles Quote-Along & Bar-B-Que RunQuote-Along: Thursday, Nov. 8th @ 7:00pm, Saturday, Nov. 10th and Thursday, Nov. 15th @ 7:15pm / BBQ Run: Saturday, Nov. 10th @ NoonAlamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th Street)Quote-Along: $10 / Quote-Along & BBQ Run: $75[info] | [tickets]Hey you! Yeah, YOU! Quit yer lollygaggin'! Don't you know that we're rounding up cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican... more ›

Image from Coldtowne Official Site 3-2-1 Kill!Tuesday, November 6Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th St)9:45pm, $9 / $7 Student, AFS[info] | [tickets]3-2-1 Kill! was one of the last live shows to play at the Alamo Drafthouse before it shut its doors in June. The format-bending improvised movie extravaganza, starring members of the improv troupes Coldtowne, The Frank Mills, and Parallelogramophonograph and produced by the Coldtowne Theater, debuts at the new Alamo Ritz tonight at 9:45pm.... more ›

Yesterday, we totally spaced on getting tickets for the grand opening of the Alamo Ritz. And considering how quickly the last triple-feature at the old theatre sold out, we figured we'd be out of luck come this morning. But much to our surprise, there are (as of this writing) still Triple Feature and Double Feature tickets available over the interweb! The triple feature tickets are $140 and include all three movies, the "Attack of the... more ›

So, ever since we saw on the Alamo Drafthouse Blog that Tim League would be making an official announcement regarding the opening date of the new Downtown location sometime this week, we have been feverishly refreshing our browsers like a psychotic squirrel searching for a nut. Finally at 3:40AM this morning (Tim is crazy!), after suffering and circumnavigating a summer without our movie Mecca, it has been announced that the Alamo Ritz will officially open... more ›