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  • Alamo Drafthouse - Festival Blues - 40 weeks ago
    Entire books have been written on it, but in case you’re headed up to Telluride this weekend - or planning on hitting the Mile High Horror Film Fest in October - here’s a quick survival guide for festival-going for the serious fan.  To be clear, I’ve never really been to a festival as a fan....
  • Alamo Drafthouse - I Collect Things - 41 weeks ago
    I collect stuff.  I’m just on this side of hoarder, I think, I’m pretty particular about the things I collect. I collect movie posters - but just of posters I like.  Posters after about 1985 or so are rolled, before 1980, they were all folded.  When you frame folded, vintage posters,...
  • Alamo Drafthouse - Such Sights to Show You - 42 weeks ago
    It’s a little difficult for me to contain all the news upcoming for the Drafthouse but our marketing specialist, Alexandra, is standing right here over my shoulder with a cattle prod.  I have a bad habit of leaking upcoming visits before she’s ready to make an announcement, see, so I can’t...
  • Alamo Drafthouse - Summer Post-Mortem Part 2 - 44 weeks ago
    BREAKOUT PERFORMANCES: The first that comes to mind is Swedish actress Alicia Vikander’s turn as sentient machine Eva in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina and now another Swedish actress, Rebecca Ferguson, as super-agent Ilsa Faust in Rogue Nation.  I was also taken by young Raffey Cassidy as another A.I.,...
  • Alamo Drafthouse - Summer Post-Mortem - 45 weeks ago
    Biggest Surprise: Jurassic World made a zillion dollars by cracking the code on exactly how much story and character were required to offset massive amounts of dinosaur mayhem and more than a little sadomasochism. It is in many ways as perfect as the manufactured villain of the piece: a perfect earning machine that...
  • Alamo Drafthouse - Interview with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost - 47 weeks ago
    In solidarity with Edgar Wright who had a very public split with the upcoming Ant-Man film, here’s an interview I did with Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost about 12 years ago, right before Shaun of the Dead launched him Wright into the nerd-o-sphere.  I love Paul Rudd and I’ve heard that large...
  • Alamo Drafthouse - Lubbock! Enjoy $5 Late Night Movies All Summer Long! - 51 weeks ago
    We are thrilled to announce the launch of our $5 Summer Movie Late Nights! When you join us for a movie at the Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock after 10 PM Sunday - Thursday tickets are only $5 - all summer long! Whether you're catching INSIDE OUT or MINIONS or want to see a late night screening of JURASSIC WORLD or...
  • Alamo Drafthouse - A Little Controversy to Start the Week - 51 weeks ago
    With the pending release of Pixar’s latest, Pete Docter’s Inside Out, let’s rank Pixar’s films from worst to best.  A quick reminder that Planes is not actually a Pixar film because, you know, Planes would win as the worst thing that the studio has ever done.  Hands down.  As...