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Another Friday means another round of fresh outta the box movies. With summer's end possibly mere weeks away, these are our last days to indulge in the pastime of escaping Austin's scorching good vibes to sit in distracted air-conditioned comfort. And in some parts of the country it's already fall, which means there's a bumper crop of new movies out! The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: On one hand, this period...

We recently caught the new work Wireless-Less during its run at the Cohen New Works Festival. The play continues its run this weekend—Thursday through Sunday at the Blue Theatre—as a part of Refraction Arts' Fuse Box Festival. Wireless-Less is a trippy, fun fantasy about the human consequences of constant access to technology. Watching this thoroughly enjoyable piece, we were reminded somewhat of David Cronenberg’s movies, in which humans are always brushing up against tech...

Fantastic Fest continues this week at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. So many great movies are playing at this festival that it’s a little overwhelming to try to take them all in. For our first four days at the fest, we decided to concentrate on the low-budget indies and international. After all, the major label flicks will be in theaters or on DVD soon. But who knows when we might have another opportunity...