Coming to the Paramount this Saturday and Sunday: 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's and 1963's Charade, both featuring the effervescent Audrey Hepburn. These two films share something else in common, as they are both scored with music by prolific composer Henry Mancini. more ›

One of our favorite things to do during a steamy Austin summer is to enjoy a classic film in the cool air-conditioning of Austin's historic Paramount Theatre. The 2011 Paramount Summer Classic Film Series schedule was released a couple weeks ago; this summer's selections are a diverse mix of some very familiar titles and some foreign and lesser-known. more ›

The Internet just reminded us of this classic scene from Richard Linklater's 2008 documentary Inning By Inning: A Portrait of a Coach, which followed University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA history. Above is a bit of the film that might inspire those of us going through Friday Night Lights withdrawals to make it through the rest of the work week. Enjoy, but beware: there's more curse words in there than a truck stop diner. more ›

Dogfish Head, despite Delaware roots, really does understand Austin. Normal does not excite us. Give us the bizarre, the weird, the off-centered. Give us off-centered beers served up with off-centered films for off-centered people, and make a festival out of it, and we’re there. This year, the Off-Centered Film Fest is bigger than ever, including four quirky and exciting events spanning April 14th-16th. more ›

• Here’s a history of SXSW. Even if you were there, there’s a chance you might not remember it.
• There’s a free screening of The Misfits in 35 mm tonight at the Texas Union. Starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable!
• In The New York Times, Austin’s Andy Langer points out Texas acts to check out during SXSW.

Two very different 1940's road films will be showing at the Paramount this weekend: 1941's Sullivan's Travels and 1942's Road to Morocco. more ›

• Amber Alert for 12-year-old Houston boy missing since Christmas Eve.
• India issues nationwide terror alert upon word of possible planned attack on New Year's.
• On the faulty investigation into the death of a Russian human rights advocate.

If you’ve heard the hype regarding director Tom Six’s controversial horror movie, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), we want to assure you that it is exactly what you think it is—100% medically accurate. Doesn’t this look like the work of a professional? more ›

When a group of college students decide to cross the border with a group of illegals as part of their thesis film for school, they find themselves held captive by these patriots and forced into filming the horrific activities on the compound—an abandoned cattle slaughterhouse. more ›

In Contracorriente (translation: Undertow), Miguel and his wife Mariela live in a small coastal Peruvian village and are expecting their first child. On the down low, Miguel is having an affair with painter Santiago, an old childhood friend. Homophobia and gossip abound in the seaside village, and so Miguel ("Chino" to his pals) feels the need to carry on this secret double life. more ›

Sure it's fun to sing along to something like "Party in the USA," but nothing compares to the bliss of yelling out lyrics with an attempted accent. Little excites us more on road trips than popping in The Cranberries and joining Dolores O'Riordan as she reaches notes and sounds that don't exist anywhere else on this planet. If that's something you can get into, why not try Glen Hansard's voice on for sound at The Action Pack's ONCE Sing-Along at the Alamo Ritz this Thursday (+ an additional sing-along next Thursday, August 19th). more ›

Be one of the first to see Predators before the nationwide release! Tickets are going on sale tomorrow, June 24th at noon. This is definitely something you won't want to miss. Come on, Topher Grace has been drinking massive amounts of protein shakes in an attempt to beef up for his character. We owe it to him to at least watch it, but we owe it to ourselves to be one of the first. more ›

Former Texas running back Ricky Williams will be in attendance tonight for a special screening of Run Ricky Run, part of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series. more ›

We all know that for the most part, summer action flicks aren't really about compelling stories or interesting dialogue—we would equate them to being 17 and letting the quarterback feel you up in the backseat of his older brother's car—they're cheap thrills and nothing more. Of course, every once in a while we are treated to a real action movie gem. Remember 2008's The Dark Knight or last year's Star Trek? Don't get excited, Clash of the Titans is no gem. more ›

In 1993, Allen Iverson allegedly hit a woman with a chair during a bowling alley brawl provoked by a racial slur. Even then—at 17 years old—Iverson was a basketball superstar, widely regarded as the best high school player in the country, and the criminal trial that followed made national headlines while dividing his hometown of Hampton Virginia along clearly established lines of class and race. Was Iverson an egomaniacal thug who deserved punishment, or was he unfairly persecuted by a predominantly white small-town establishment? more ›

Two fast-food mascots who flirt, fight, and fall in love helped University of Texas alumnus Marko Slavnic win the Judges' Award and $100,000 in the Nikon Festival for his short film, "Chicken vs. Penguin." 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 ›

Pipkin's travels offer a short, but empowering, paradigm shift for those of us who are too often fixated in our local lives. The things we take away are simple but uplifting: the majority of the world is incredibly poor; but they require comparatively little to live happily; these projects create results very efficiently, and we can help them succeed. more ›

There are lots of goodies on tap tonight, from the festival's most outrageous documentary to a Chinese historical epic. Docs are definitely on show, starting with Floored, about the traders on Chicago's stock exchange. Already one of the most interesting jobs in America, we're expecting some memorable characters up in here. more ›

The Screenwriter's Conference is over and done with, so now it's just down to the films. Here are our picks for Monday at the Austin Film Festival, including some you may have missed the first time around... more ›

Excitement and anticipation was thick in the air last night as Austin Film Festival goers began to claim their badges and passes. Today is the first day of AFF 2009, and while it starts a little bit later than all the other days, there is still a lot of content to pack in this afternoon. Here are the things we think you should ink in on your schedule. more ›

When you think about all the big name film festivals, we bet it sets off a soundtrack of ka-ching ka-ching in your head. Expensive to get to and pricey to attend, most folks like us can't work that sort of expenditure into our yearly budget. Well, we would like to remind you that this isn't Utah; you're livin' in Austin, baby, and around these parts Austin Film Festival passes start at the totally-affordable-even-if-you-don't-have-a-ton-of-money price of $42 (General Admission to individual screenings is just $9!), and it all happens right in your backyard. more ›

The Austin Foodie scene has truly exploded over the last couple of years, exposing our growing metropolis to so many opportunities to eat tasty food and drink delicious drinks. It is overwhelming to consider just how long it would take, and just how many pounds we would gain, in order to experience the best of what Austin has to offer in the dining realm. Thankfully, over the last seven years, the Austin Film Festival's Film & Food Party has been able to compress all of the tasty business around town into one night of bites, booze and bidding. more ›

Clive Owen's latest is a good little art-house film stuck in the body of a Hollywood script that constantly teeters towards over-sentimentality. I mean, they didn't even get the license for the actual song from "Irish Hard Rock Band" Thin Lizzy. more ›

Zombies get a bad rap. It’s not like they DECIDED they wanted to be undead. Well tomorrow night all that changes…for a little while, anyway.Tonight these poor undead bastards are getting some solid screen time as Spider House Café teams up the film geniuses to show a double feature with Zombie and Return of the Living Dead. Catch them on the big screen on the back patio as part of their Midnight Movies Series. more ›

Kicking off this Wednesday with Bikes Rock at the Parish La Zona Rosa, the 9th Annual BFF will skid into Austin for five days of bike-centric love, including art shows, after-parties, bike polo and, of course, films about bikes and the people that love to ride them. Luckily, we got the chance to exchange emails with Brendt Barbur, the founding director of the Bicycle Film Festival, about why this festival is important, the culture of cycling and, oddly enough, fashion. more ›

Look out sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigots! Tonight and tomorrow night the ladies of the 80s are climbing the corporate ladder and aren't afraid to kick you down a rung if you don't recognize their keen intellect and undeniable business acumen, not matter if you are one of their kind or not. In a stroke of pure brilliance The Paramount has programmed a double feature that will give any other activity tonight or tomorrow night a real run for its money shoulder pads, pairing the Dolly Parton/Lily Tomlin/Jane Fonda triple threat of 9 to 5 with the bony-assed-boss berating, Aqua Net-enhanced prowess of Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. more ›

A couple of weeks ago Warren and I went to see the movie Moon, sort of a thematic mash-up of that old classic Gaslight meets the Disney flick Parent Trap meets Castaway with a dash of A Boy and His Dog thrown in and some sub-themes that might’ve been derived from Bowie’s Major Tom and Elton’s Rocket Man. That I was able to gather all this from the film is a testament to my ability to multi-task. While it’s true I sometimes purposefully multi-task in the theater—yes, I can knit in the dark—in this case I found myself unintentionally and unhappily tri-tasking. Because the couple sitting next to us WOULD NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP. more ›

Kids are endlessly creative and/or insane, and anyone who has hung out with a 10-year-old for more than a minute knows that the stories they craft are sometimes more bizarre than anything a seasoned wordsmith could ever come up with. The Austin Film Festival's Summer Film Camp allows budding filmmakers to express those words through moving pictures and specifically in this case, through moving clay. The video is only 5 minutes and 52 seconds long, and the four short films contained therein are totally worth a watch. Our favorite happens to be the incredibly wacky Sacred Cupcake, by no-doubt-future-auteurs Colin, Connor and Sam, although all of the participants are to be commended for their super cool work. more ›

in the war-torn country of Afghanistan, there’s a TV show much like our own inexplicably popular American Idol, where anyone can compete regardless of race, age, religion, or any other factor. And people all over the country use their cell phones to vote for their favorite performer. This remarkable film (winner of Directing and Audience Awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival) follows four finalists as they compete to become the next Afghan Star.It's sure to inform, inspire, enlighten, and entertain you. And that’s a lot more than Simon Cowell could ever do for you. more ›