Ghosts come in all forms—natural and unnatural—in Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, screening Monday and Wednesday in 35mm at the Ritz. Hiding out in a bleak, deserted orphanage at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, a small group of boys and adults are held back by a number of individual hauntings...greed, fear, impotence, politics, unrequited love, responsibility, a bomb that never exploded, a dead boy with a gaping head wound. Dread Diversity Award. It seems best to consider Backbone a drama with a semi-spooky aesthetic; yes, a dead boy pops up every now and then misting ghost blood out of his cracked head, but the film is surprisingly more rooted in the real. The horrors of humanity. It's the recognizable human evils that make this a lingering, chilling film. more ›

Hillary and Obama play nice. Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo. Drug resistant flu virus on the rise. U.S. Economy loses 17,000 jobs in January. more ›

An asteroid could hit Mars next month prompting Mars' threat level to move to Orange. Riots erupt in New Orleans over the demolition of public housing buildings. Why can't New Orleans get a chance to relax? Hearings have been set regarding the destruction of the CIA torture tapes. Bush claims to be totally ignorant about everything, especially this and especially you! more ›

Paramount Theater, 7 PM
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It looks like ex-Austinite and popular horror/fantasy director Guillermo del Toro is set to produce a film adaptation of the cult DC Comics fave Deadman for Warner Brothers. more ›