Tag: alamodrafthouse

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Angelenos have been waiting years and years for the opening date announcement of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in their fair city. The wait continues (it's currently estimated as second quarter 2019), but the good folks at the Alamo have some...

Whoo-whee! This is an exciting time of the year as festival announcements are coming thick and fast. TIFF has fully revealed its extensive program, Venice is out there, and NYFF will be close behind. But right in the middle of...

What better way to kick off the 10th annual Texas Frightmare Weekend horror convention in Dallas than a screening of Don Coscarelli's personal 35mm print of his classic, Phantasm? This screening was announced about a month ago and ScreenAnarchy was...

Holy Toledo is that headline correct? Yes ScreenAnarchy has reviews published for over 70 of the films that played at Fantastic Fest 2014! (There were 76 non-repertory films screened at Fantastic Fest 2014). So why were we slacking? Well...

Drafthouse Films has been developing a habit of picking up cult oddities and giving them another theatrical run and remastered home entertainment releases. Today begins the theatrical run of Abel Ferrera's Ms .45. You will find it at Alamo Drafthouses...

It's a Wednesday afternoon in late June and I'm walking in downtown Austin, Texas. It being late June, temperatures are blasting to well near a hundred degrees Fahrenheit. But that doesn't matter to me. Like the mirror opposite of Ryan...

We always thought it was a bit ambitious to hope the South Lamar remodel of the Alamo Drafthouse's main digs would be done in time for this year's Fantastic Fest. Today brings news that delays have indeed reared their...

For my second year in a row, I made my way down to Austin, Texas, home of the infamous celebration of Movie Geekery known as Butt-Numb-a-Thon. This was the fourteenth iteration of this mad festival, what amounts to an...

I had a chance this year to attend the famed Butt-numb-a-thon in Austin, Texas. What started as a slightly masochistic 24 hour, invite-only gathering thirteen years ago has in time seen BNAT transform into one of the more unique and...