Every Friday and almost-every-Saturday for the next four weeks the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz will host Master Pancake Theatre as they board something science fiction-y on their way to Mars (which has been scientifically identified as the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz) and lampoon the world of Philip K. Dick. There will be California Governors, Kuatos, and Sharon Stones at the mercy of the comedic minds of the Pancake troupe. more ›

Filmmaker, AFS founder, and diehard Austinite Richard Linklater was in Cannes last month to present A Scanner Darkly, the rotoscoped film adaptation of Philip K Dick's dystopic novel, and Fast Food Nation, based on Eric Schlosser's expose on the fast food industry. At the same time, the Criterion Collection -- famous for its fabulous reissues of landmark films from the likes of Fellini, Kubrick, Godard, and Lang -- released a special edition of Dazed and... more ›