Are you still feeling a little bit, or a lotta bit, of the holiday hangover? Not quite ready to step back into the work shoes (even though you probably already have)? Already starting to count the remaining 320 some-odd days until we get to start the season of glee all over again? We are too, and what better way to accept our current state of mid-January gloom than by revisiting a film that shares the familiar cold of happy memories, imagination, and fairy-tale fantasy, making way for our eventual ingestion into ‘the real world.’ Tonight you can shed your tears with a film that shares your sentiments, as the Paramount Theater screens Edward Scissorhands as part of the Tim Burton Winter Film Series. more ›

Concerned as it is with the decidedly non-visual sensation of smell, Patrick Suskind’s novel Das Parfum would appear an unlikely candidate for a movie. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the film rights to Das Parfum were offered to everyone from Stanley Kubrick (who declared the book unfilmable) to Tim Burton before they fell into the hands of Tom Tykwer, the German auteur behind Run Lola Run. The result, which opens today, is... more ›

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few things in life are scarier than zombies, people with way too much money, and politicians who try too hard to be funny. Slightly less scary, depending on whom you... more ›

[The following is an editorial column by contributor Alison Coffey and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Austinist staff. --The Editors] In the tradition of Neal Pollack's Salon.com Grammy's post, I've decided to take us on a live tour of this year's Academy Awards, minute by minute, hour by hour, boring acceptance speech by boring acceptance speech. Well, I hope not, but odds are, the acceptance speeches are going to be boring.... more ›

Austin's burgeoning reputation as a major film hub is largely bolstered by massive blockbuster directors like Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez, but at the other end of the spectrum are a plethora of local filmmakers with a wealth of unexhibited talent. To showcase the latter works - which are often entertaining and sometimes briliant - is a local film collective called Screen Door. They exist largely to "showcase the talents of local and national... more ›

Okay, so you’ve had a whole weekend and a day to see , the latest from director Tim Burton and his greatest muse, Johnny Depp. But maybe you haven’t seen it yet. Maybe you’re thinking, "Why bother? It’s a kid’s movie. I’m not a kid, I’m a grown-up, harrumph!" Or maybe you’re a lifetime member of the Gene Wilder Fan Club, and you’ve sworn your devotion to the original Willy Wonka and would never, ever betray him by seeing this bastardization of his name, so there! more ›