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Image from the Paramount websiteBlade Runner: The Final CutNovember 18-23Paramount Theater (713 Congress Avenue)$8/$6 children, students, and seniors. Sunday, 2, 4:30 & 7 pm; Monday-Wednesday, 7:30 pm; Thursday, 7 pm; Friday, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 pm [info]Before Minority Report, before A Scanner Darkly, came by far the awesomest flick ever to be made out of a Philip K. Dick novel (sorry, Linklater). It's noir, it's scifi, it's scary, it's mind-bending: Blade Runner, which was released...

*The views expressed in Truesday are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole. Thank heavens.* -The Editors Bro-dawgs, huddle around the Axe Body Wash fountain and check this out: There’s a new lounge opening up where that freakshow movie place used to be, and it’s gonna be sweet bangin’ with more honeys than we’ll be able to drug in a single night, and more lesser bro-hams than we’ll be...

Ah, back to school – that magical time of year when students across town come back from those lazy days of summer and start emptying their wallets on books, parking tickets, and cover charges. So what's the best way to actually break the monotony of ramen and grilled cheese without going broke in the process? Four magic letters: BYOB. Thai Noodle House is nestled in at 2602 Guadalupe, just behind the 7-Eleven on the north...

Like most filmmakers, Brian Helgeland got his start in movies working on low-budget genre pictures like 976-EVIL and Assassins. Before he became one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood, Helgeland made his directorial debut with the hard-hitting film noir Payback. Unfortunately, the film wasn't released until after Helgeland won an Oscar for L.A. Confidential, and then only in a butchered, studio-approved cut. Recently Helgeland got the chance to re-edit, and his director's cut, Payback-Straight...

MONDAY [27] [film] Soul Cinema Monday: "The Spook Who Sat By the Door" at Alamo Downtown ($1, 7pm) (link) [film] "Candy: Terry Southern Psychedelic Mindwarp" at Alamo Downtown ($1, 9:45pm) (link) [film] Spike & Mike? Twisted Animation Fest at Alamo South Lamar and Alamo Village (Through Thursday, 10:15 SL, 9:45 Vill) (link) [film] "Tank Girl" at Cafe Mundi (8pm) (link) [TV] Twin Peaks & Carnivale at Beerland (Free, 7pm) (link) [books] Karenna Gore Schiff, the...

*The views expressed in Truesday are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole.* -The Editors I really wanted to write a diatribe on how gentrification is a used-up, clichéd and pointless term in the discussion of Austin development. I really did. But these goddamn allergies have my head floating like so much lofty complaints based on poorly drawn cultural and economic lines from those who aren’t even the subject...

Back in May, Alamo Drafthouse and DJ Nick Nack teamed up to bring us a screening of Fritz Lang's magnificent Metropolis, set to a live turntable score by the vinyl maestro. This Saturday, they're bringing it back with back-to-back showings of the black and white sci-fi masterpiece at the Downtown Drafthouse, at 7pm and 9pm. The screening we attended last time sold out, so we had to settle for seats at the very front;...

In 1927, Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang premiered his latest masterpiece to a modest reception in Berlin: Metropolis it was titled, so-named for the futuristic citystate where its story takes place. The black-and-white silent film describes a society split into two vastly disparate castes: the privileged Thinkers, who dwell in the lofty upper levels of the skyscrapered urban cityscape, and the oppressed Workers, who wallow in an underground dystopic squalor.Borne of the waning German Expressionism...