Movie Apocalypse

Oblivion and Tom Cruise deliver a fantastic-looking end of the world

By Alex Bentley

04.20.13 | 3:05 pm

If you fear some kind of forthcoming apocalypse, this is not the year for you to go to the movies. There are multiple films that deal with the end of the world in one form or another, including War ...

Waste of Comedic Talent

Despite the talent, Admission fails to make the grade as a comedy

By Alex Bentley

03.23.13 | 10:59 am

You’d be hard-pressed to find two funnier people in show business than Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. Fey has earned much acclaim for her work on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, although her film c ...

Cinema Six

Stateside at the Paramount

03.25.13

The latest from indie comedy duo Mark Potts and Cole Selix, is a film as generous with its quotable one-liners as it is with its relatable characters. Mason, Dennis and Gabe have worked at the Stan

Double feature: Rubber and Wrong with director Quentin Dupieux

Alamo Drafthouse - Village

03.24.13

Dupieux will be in attendance for an audience Q-and-A session. 

winding down

Best of the fest: Short Term 12 earns its grand jury prize

By Aleksander Chan

03.16.13 | 6:30 pm

Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12, which won the grand jury prize for best narrative feature at this year’s SXSW, is a trip. It’s hard to tear yourself away from this story about a g ...

Young Adult Fiction

SXSW 2013 film review: The Spectacular Now makes a strong case for the teen drama renaissance

By Aleksander Chan

03.15.13 | 5:00 pm

The romantic comedy may be dead, but the young adult coming-of-age drama, of the John Hughes-ian variety, could be on the cusp of a renaissance. James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now —&n ...

Can we be friends?

SXSW 2013 film review: Drinking Buddies goes down smooth, but with little flavor

By Aleksander Chan

03.12.13 | 10:40 am

In a brief Q & A session at the SXSW world premiere with the cast of Drinking Buddies, Joe Swanberg’s romantic drama set in a Chicago beer brewery, star Olivia Wilde said that her role, a ...

Silver Screen

Oscar predictions: Win your pool with our foolproof guide to the Academy Awards

By Duncan Carson

02.22.13 | 11:27 am

There is an entire Internet subculture devoted to predicting the Oscars. It has its own Vegas odds-makers, like sporting events, and several different blogs devoted to handicapping the ceremony. Ha ...

2013 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

Austin Studios

03.07.13

Honoring a legendary group of Texan artists in film and television. This year’s honorees are an illustrious group and include:Annette O’Toole, Henry Thomas, Stephen Tobolowsky

Girlie Night: The Notebook

Alamo Drafthouse - Ritz

02.19.13

In this cryfest of cinema based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, country boy Noah (Gosling) charms his way into city girl Allie’s (Rachel McAdams) heart, but can their love endure the trials