Entries from Austinist tagged with 'itcool'
January 14, 2008
As we reported last week, the Austin-birthed Teeth will be hitting our silver screens on Friday, January 25th. But of course, it would be a grievous crime against the good people of Austin to not give them the chance to see this genre-bending flick before the rest of the unwashed masses, so the tireless miracle-workers over at Ain't It Cool News and the Alamo Drafthouse have cooked up a little sneak preview for our collective cringing pleasure, with Director Mitchell Lichtenstein live in person to field all of your probing questions....
Continue Reading "Exercise Your Choppers On Some Good, Hard, um, Food!"December 10, 2007
Son of Rambow - Free Screening!Monday, December 10thAlamo Drafthouse South Lamar (1120 S. Lamar)Free, 7pm[info]Amidst the blood, guts and graphic violence of Fantastic Fest 2007, which we lovingly embraced in all its gory glory, was nestled a small, quiet film about the wonders and struggles of growing up and growing out. Son of Rambow was like a tall glass of Iced Tea on a 110 degree day: refreshing, calming and cool. We went into......
Continue Reading "Tiny Taste of Buttnumbathon - Free Screening of Son of Rambow Tonight"June 14, 2007
[Via Chris Garcia @ Austin360] According to the Hollywood Reporter, a Memphis projectionist named Jesse Morrison was fired after writing a scathing early review of the new Fantastic Four flick for Austin-based Ain't It Cool News. (Because it's apparently some kind of closely guarded trade secret that Silver Surfer is going to blow.) In his capacity as a projectionist for the Malco Theater chain, Morrison was able to sneak a peek at quite a few......
Continue Reading "Projectionist Fired For Dishing To Ain't It Cool"June 6, 2007
1977 was a bitch-goddess. She killed Vladimir Nabokov, but then (in an attempt at cosmic rebalancing, we suppose) she also birthed the greatest sci-fi film trilogy ever. May 25th 1977 (the day Star Wars was released theatrically) is officially "day zero" for geeks, nerds and fanboys everywhere. It's the day society learned that science fiction can be cool, and that each of us has an inner geek begging to be let out. 5-25-77 is the......
Continue Reading "5-25-77 : Birth of the Geek Generation"May 28, 2007
As part of the "Last Month at the Original Alamo" festivities, Ain't It Cool News and Fantastic Fest have just announced a special sneak screening of Eli Roth's highly anticipated new horror film Hostel Part 2 this coming Sunday night. A longtime friend of the Alamo, Roth will be in attendance to introduce the film, and the AICN announcement suggests that there'll be some other fun surprises as well. Though we have no idea what......
Continue Reading "Last Month at the Alamo Updates"September 20, 2006
Fantastic Fest starts tomorrow at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. VIP badges are already sold out, and there are only 80 regular festival badges left. If you love movies, the festival badge is a steal: $110 buys you 8 days of giant monsters, kung fu, chainsaw murders, school girls, angry insects and generally fantastic cinema. (Read our preview) To help prepare you for Fantastic Fest, we conducted a quick interview with Austin's own......
Continue Reading "Fantastic Fest News & Interview with Harry Knowles"June 30, 2006
On Wednesday night, The Austin Film Society hosted a little over one thousand friends to watch Austin's very own premiere of A Scanner Darkly at the Paramount Theatre, with a post-screen party down the street at The Austin Museum of Art. Originally written by Philip K. Dick in the late 1970’s and adapted to the screen by Austin's own Richard Linklater, A Scanner Darkly is an eerie, yet hilarious, film of drugs, paranoia and......
Continue Reading "A Scanner Darkly, A Step Above"April 10, 2006
This is simply too good to be true, but it is true. On Saturday, May 27th, the Alamo Drafthouse is holding the Texas premiere of Nacho Libre, a new comedy from writer/director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and writer Mike White (School Of Rock). The film stars Jack Black as a Mexican friar who dons a secret identity as a "Lucha Libre" wrestler to help save his church. View the preview here. Be warned that......
Continue Reading "Holy Mexican Wrestlers! The Alamo Premieres Nacho Libre With A Smackdown"April 5, 2006
Ain't It Cool News found out on Monday that the lineup for this year's QT Fest has been leaked on the Drafthouse's schedule of events. Full-access badges, priced at $145, have already sold out -- single screening tickets should still be available for most at $10/ea, or $20/30 for nightly passes. We've taken the liberty of linking the listings to their iMDB pages: MONDAY, APRIL 24TH [imdb] Kiss The Girls And Make Them Die [imdb]......
Continue Reading "Best of QT Fest Lineup Revealed"August 1, 2005
Seriously, is it time for First Thursday again? Highlights of this busy week include Neva Dinova at Emo's on Tuesday, Need New Body at The Parish on Wednesday, the Milago Moonlight Margarita Run on Thursday, and Dance Disaster Movement at The Parish on Friday. Did we forget anything? Let us know. M O N D A Y art · The "Texas Monkey Project" is currently on exhibit at Progress Coffee [pictured: Michael Sieben's "Pink Monkey"]......
Continue Reading "The IST List: Week of August 1"