SEX AND THE CITY at the Ritz and Village!

Holy Manolo Blahniks! The opening weekend of SEX AND THE CITY at the Ritz is already sold out! If you don't want to miss out on the ultimate girl's nights out this Summer, with Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, Charlotte, and most importantly cosmos, grab your tickets to the second weekend now. Because seeing this film anywhere else in town would be like wearing a scrunchie for your night out in Manhattan - it just shouldn't be done!

Not only does the Alamo Ritz serve liquor (a different style of cosmo for each of the four lovely SEX AND THE CITY ladies!), but just have a look at the incredible specials head chef Trich Eichelberger has created just for this film!

Crab Salad Spring Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce


Chilled Cantaloupe Soup finished with Champagne and Pancetta


'Mr. Big' New York Style Ruben, Corned Beef, Swiss Cheese, Sauerkraut, Whole Grain Mustard on Rye


Flourless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache and Fresh Fruit

If you absolutely can't wait to see it, then head over to the Alamo Village where you can still find a seat this weekend! Sure, there won't be cosmos, but they have the same fabulous menu specials and check out this extravagant Champagne Cocktail Menu!

Damn, you look good.

Now Playing Late Nights at South Lamar:

When Alamo pal and pugilist auteur Uwe Boll put in a personal call to Tim League asking him to open POSTAL on Memorial Day weekend against INDIANA JONES, what could Tim say but 'Uwe Uwe Uwe no'? But then Uwe threatened to beat Tim up...

POSTAL follows two days in the life of the Postal Dude (Zack Ward), in the regrettably named town of Paradise. Just when he thinks he has hit rock bottom, things get worse. Sharing a trailer with his ever-expanding wife, Bitch, Dude is in a bad way.

After a humiliating job interview and a nearly lethal trip to the welfare office, Dude finds himself on the doorstep of his Uncle Dave, played by Dave Foley - who goes full-frontal for the camera in his first scene. Despite being the successful leader of the town cult, Dave is also finding himself in financial difficulties. Together, Dude and Dave hatch a plan to steal some valuable merchandise.

Unfortunately for them, the much better organized and much better equipped Taliban has converged on Paradise for more sinister reasons. Things spiral out of control when Osama Bin Laden is forced to call in his friend George W Bush as back up.

From there, things get strange.

POSTAL is insulting, irreverent, politically incorrect and funny as hell. In a different era, a director would be put to death for making this movie, and we should probably be put to death for loving it so much. Just leave your sensitivity at home and come to South Lamar for a good time.

For info and tix, click here!

This Weekend:

After having an absolute blast at the Alamo PIRATE PARTY back in March, we had a fascinating realization: you don't always need to be watching a movie to have a good time. Whaaa?? So in an attempt to chase this idea further down the rabbit hole, we're having a Rolling Roadshow event this weekend that has nothing to do with movies, and nothing to do with a movie screen of any kind. Instead, Tim and Karrie League will be opening their home to a small group of dedicated tasty goodness enthusiasts, and chef John Bullington will be preparing the Alamo's first ever CRAWFISH BOIL.

If you're unfamiliar with how a crawfish boil goes down, then you're actually going to be *required* to purchase tickets to this event, otherwise the City of Austin will deport you back to that northern climate you so recently ran away from. If, however, you just moved here from Louisiana and think that there's no way a movie theater could ever replicate the down home awesomeness of the crawfish boils of your youth, then you don't know Bullington. I don't care how spicy your Cajun grandparents used to make 'em, Bullington's spiced up pot of delicious will have your fired up mouth feeling very happy that icy cold beer is included in the $25 ticket price.

Grab your tickets HERE, and we'll see you at the League's.

Michael Jackson: THRILL THE WORLD Part 3 Tonight at the Ritz!

Somehow, no other wannabe pop star before Michael Jackson understood how to harness the power of TV. Before Michael, music videos were just cheap promo tapes that showed a band playing a song, and maybe dancing around a little bit. Well, MJ would have none of that. He refused to even make music videos, and instead created what are still referred to as short films. He wove entire stories around his pop songs, and the world was transfixed. Twenty five years later, THRILLER is still the number one video on almost every list, and the cult is only growing.

We've partnered up with ThrillTheWorld.com to help them break the world record for having the most people all over the globe performing the Thriller dance at the exact same time, and we're going to see to it that Austin leads the planet in thrilling everyone! Here's the deal - from now through October, we're going to have at least one MICHAEL JACKSON SING-ALONG in every calendar. After each Sing-Along, we're going to take the entire audience over to another club downtown where we will teach and rehearse the Thriller dance. Then in late October, we're going to invite every single MICHAEL JACKSON SING-ALONG attendee from the whole of 2008 to come back out and participate in one MASSIVE zombified dance party.

Come down to the Ritz tonight and THRILL.

Tonight at the Ritz - BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

Holy SMOKES.

After the success of our Big Screen Sci-Fi Classics series at The Ritz, we wanted to top off our incredible pre-summer movie series with something COLOSSAL. And after the rousing reaction you all gave to our screenings of another John Carpenter/Kurt Russell masterpiece THE THING, we realized there was only one option...

The most SLAM-BANGIN'EST, GUN-BLASTIN'EST, ANCIENT CHINESE MYSTICISM-INEST ACTION ADVENTURE COMEDY THRILLRIDE EVER SEEN...

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA!!!!!!!!!

For those of you who've yet to experience this pulse-pounding foray into life-affirming entertainment, this movie ranks way up there with GHOSTBUSTERS and PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE as an ultimate distillation of PURE FUN. Kurt Russell plays two-fisted trucker Jack Burton, a gambling, beer-chugging schmoe whose macho heroics land him on the supernatural immortal kung-fu warrior shitlist. The lightning and magic lazerbeams fly through the streets of San Francisco as Jack and his fellow lowbrow adventurers face off against rampaging maniacs, elemental demigods, mythical beings and even prehistoric subterranean monstrosities!!

MAY 18 - 21 is your rare chance to catch this absolutely unparalleled movie in its enormous Scope 35mm widescreen glory, so don't miss out! Get your tickets HERE!

Swayze. Pancake. Making a difference with ROADHOUSE.

When we first heard that Patrick Swayze (RED DAWN, POINT BREAK) had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer back in January- we wanted to help and we wanted to celebrate, with all sincerity, one of our heroes, but we didn't want to come off as opportunists. What Swayze has given to the cinema is a real man, a nurturing warrior able to walk confidently into his own tragedy and out of it triumphantly. Initial reports of his cancer gave a prognosis of 'maybe three months, maybe' but Patrick Swayze is a fighter. Just this month, reports from his doctors have breathed new life into the legend, and placed him on the path to full recovery.

We decided we should do something- to help and to celebrate. For two nights only, the kind-hearted comedians of Master Pancake will perform their mockery (as the purest form of flattery) of the Swayze classic ROADHOUSE with all proceeds going toward pancreatic cancer research!

And if, by some insane chance or circumstance, you have never seen ROADHOUSE, then this is the time and place to do it. It's got a little something for everybody, and plenty of top-shelf Swayze to go around.

Grab your ticket here.

Thurs & Fri at the Ritz: THE 90s ALTERNATIVE SING-ALONG

In the 1990s, pop music had an alternative side. Some bands started using their influence to try to change the world. Others made themselves cool by writing hit songs about how they were creeps and losers. Rappers rocked and rockers rapped, and Lollapalooza ruled the summer. We're not going to call anything any sort of a 'palooza', but we will have Perry Farrell represented in the mix, along with a lot of the other bands that played the original Lollapaloozas.

And as always, there will be props and surprises to bring the action from the screen out into the theater. Dress up in your favorite 90s outfit or in costume from your favorite 90s Alternative video, and we'll let you show off your look on the stage before the show and award prizes to the best dressed of each night.

Tickets to either night are available here.

Tonight at the Ritz - THE THIN MAN

When you think about it, most cinematic detectives would make bad role models, and it's no surprise to find a movie detective hitting the hooch pretty hard. But while the Jimmy Doyles of cinema turn to the bottle out of loneliness or despair or just plain toughness as a last friend thanks to a lifetime spent chasing down the bad guys, Nick Charles just drinks because he likes it. And thanks to his lovely wife Nora, they're able to hit the bottle together. And when Nick and Nora drink, they don't do it in a dark corner of a lonely office, they do it at swinging parties, the best bars in the city, the nightstand by their beds, their living room on Christmas morning... really, anywhere and everywhere, and always with a smile. Heck, Nora Charles even manages to make a hangover look charming. Needless to say, these are our kind of detectives, and THE THIN MAN is our sort of classic detective story.

Some of us had the opportunity to enjoy THE THIN MAN Mother's Day feast at the Ritz last night, but for those of us who were spending the evening with mom enjoying her own home cooked meal (we offered to take her out, but she insisted!), the Ritz is offering one more screening of THE THIN MAN, each packed with special cocktails and class. You won't be able to keep up with the Charles, but you can have a good time trying.

Tickets to tonight's show are available here.

TONIGHT AT THE RITZ

Last week's Cinco De Mayo Feast-Along presentation of THE THREE AMIGOS was so fun, and sold out so early, that we knew we had to give more people a chance to experience singing along to "My Little Buttercup" in a theater full of fans of vocabulary-building comedy. I mean, maybe it was just me, and how old I was when this movie came out, but for years and years I just assumed that "a plethora" was some sort of Spanish word for pinata. I don't know what language I assumed "pinata" was, but as embarrassing as that is, even worse was the fact that I had absolutely no idea that "infamous" didn't mean "more than famous" until I missed that question on my SATs. Thanks a lot, Three Amigos.

At any rate, tonight we'll have one more chance to see THE THREE AMIGOS on the big screen while yelling out all of our favorite lines and singing along with the horses on "Blue Shadows" and more. We'll start things off with a game of Kick the Pinata, then I know I for one will be doing a tequila shot, and then we will all be able to face our own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the REAL El Guapo.

Grab your tickets to tonight's 7pm showing here, and I'll see you in Santa Poco.

Drink Along with THE THIN MAN

When you think about it, most cinematic detectives would make bad role models, and it's no surprise to find a movie detective hitting the hooch pretty hard. But while the Jimmy Doyles of cinema turn to the bottle out of loneliness or despair or just plain toughness as a last friend thanks to a lifetime spent chasing down the bad guys, Nick Charles just drinks because he likes it. And thanks to his lovely wife Nora, they're able to hit the bottle together. And when Nick and Nora drink, they don't do it in a dark corner of a lonely office, they do it at swinging parties, the best bars in the city, the nightstand by their beds, their living room on Christmas morning... really, anywhere and everywhere, and always with a smile. Heck, Nora Charles even manages to make a hangover look charming. Needless to say, these are our kind of detectives, and THE THIN MAN is our sort of classic detective story.

Some of us had the opportunity to enjoy THE THIN MAN Mother's Day feast at the Ritz last night, but for those of us who were spending the evening with mom enjoying her own home cooked meal (we offered to take her out, but she insisted!), the Ritz is offering two more screenings of THE THIN MAN, each packed with special cocktails and class. You won't be able to keep up with the Charles, but you can have a good time trying.

Tickets to tonight's show and Wednesday night's show are available here.

Mother's Day Feasts This Weekend

Even though we should celebrate our mothers every single day, thanking them and praising them endlessly for giving us life and helping us through...we don't. So, we make up for it by making one day really, really nice for her.

Our special Alamo Mother's Day Feast events are this weekend and our chefs have truly outdone themselves!

Mom, surely one of these will ease the pain of my birth after all these years?

At the Alamo Village, chef Elijah Horgan has devised a perfect pairings of trash and class to accompany the misadventures of Hi and Ed for The RAISING ARIZONA Mother's Day Feast featuring such delicacies as "Hand-battered spicy chicken cutlets with marsala chicken jus and waffle shards with vanilla scented syrup and sliced strawberry." Mmm...mmm.

Chef John Bullington has masterfully mirrored the elegance and sophistication of Holly Golightly for the BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S Mother's Day Brunch where you can treat Mom (and/or yourself) to such treats as "house smoked rainbow trout with spring onion slivers and creme fraiche on whole wheat bagel toasts." Nothing wrong with that.

And finally, rounding out your triumvirate of options with the most "decadent" of all, chef Trish Eichelberger channeled her inner-lush to complement on screen romance in THE THIN MAN Feast which has matching spirits courses, so your throat won't get too parched when you enjoy your "seared Trout deglazed with Tarragon-Gin Court Bouillon, Cherry Tomato and Olive confit, Wild Rice Blend, and Grilled Radicchio".

Mom, I love you... With all my heart... But no, you can not have any of my bourbon flamed banana in a mocha crepe with satsuma glaze...you already had your own.

Happy Mother's Day, Moms!