We’ve come to count on the Alamo Drafthouse to unearth various cinematic treasures for us on practically a daily basis, and Sunday night’s offbeat offering sounds promising as usual. Beat the Devil (1953, John Huston) tells the story of a band of colorful, money-hungry crooks headed to Africa with the hopes of getting their hands on some uranium. They meet up with a seemingly straight-laced British couple and adventure ensues… more ›

Andrew Bujalski took the indie movie world by storm a few years ago with his wonderful post-collegiate ennui flick Funny Ha Ha. Well, storm might be an exaggeration; it was more of a slow-burn. The fuse was a long one that continues to burn, as the film remains in sporadic release around the country, more than four years later. In fact, the film wasn’t screened for us until last year. It was worth the wait, however, as evidenced by the film’s appearance on our Top 14 Movies of 2005. more ›

Austinist remembers those awkward years just after college; you know, the ones that find you drinking too much, underemployed and looking for love in all the wrong places. The years seemed to represent some sort of way station between adolescence and the alleged “adulthood” about which we had heard and read so much. In his debut feature film, Funny Ha Ha, writer-director Andrew Bujalski explores these testing times through the eyes of thumb-twiddling beauty Marnie, played to great effect by cute newcomer Kate Dollenmayer. more ›