DRAG ME TO HELL at the Ritz

Sam Raimi's DRAG ME TO HELL
Now Playing at the Alamo Ritz!
Advance tickets available here

"DRAG ME TO HELL, which premiered at South by Southwest, is nothing short of horror-hound heaven. 4 stars."
Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle

The first new horror movie in years from Sam Raimi, the incredible director of the untouchable EVIL DEAD series!

Plus! Only at the Alamo, pamper your inner demon with our patented "Blood Shots"! A cursed blend of Vodka, Chambord and Strawberry with just a twist of black-hearted Hungarian witch-wrath!

A loan officer (Alison Lohman) ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural gypsy curse which turns her life into a living nightmare. Desperate, she turns to a seer for help, and learns she only has a short period of time before she is literally ushered into Hell. With a tip of the hat to George A. Romero, Raimi has found a way to comment on the housing crisis with tones that are equally bitter, wicked, and subtle...not to mention unexpectedly comedic.

So hail to the King of Gut-Busting Slapstick Violence on his return to the throne!

Get to the theater early for a hilarious, blood-drenched preshow!

CADDYSHACK QUOTE-ALONG!

THE CADDYSHACK QUOTE-ALONG
Final Show! Thursday, May 28 at the Alamo Ritz
Advance Tix available here

God damn it, I wish I'd worked in an amusement park, or at a swimming pool, or at a summer camp, or in a country club for at least one summer during high school or college. I've never even liked golf all that much, but I definitely would have learned if I could have had a summer like this. Not only do you get to hook up with the rich hot girl who's visiting from New York, but you get to be friends with Chevy Chase back when he was an endearing sarcastic mumbler, you get to hang out with Bill Murray, and you get to win a college scholarship with the help of explosions! Come on!

So maybe working at a real country club isn't like that at all, but it sure should be. CADDYSHACK shows us everything that an 80s movie can be, complete with the old blowhard who doesn't like the kids and misfits who just want to have fun, the random shots of boobs when you least expect them, and, of course, quotable line after quotable line.

So it's got that going for it, which is nice. And we'll make it even nicer by subtitling all of our favorite lines, bringing in soggy Baby Ruths for everyone to enjoy, and starting the whole shebang with an in-the-theater golf competition.

SCARFACE at the Ritz

Big Screen Classics: SCARFACE
Tonight at the Alamo Ritz!
Advance tickets available here

Gorgeous 35mm print! Watching Brian De Palma's SCARFACE is like looking down the barrel of a loaded gun and praying that the madman behind it will let you live long enough to finish watching SCARFACE. Al Pacino's turn as Tony Montana, the Cuban-immigrant-turned-coked-out-criminal-warlord, will make you actually want to say hello to his little friend, even though you're pretty sure his little friend could explode your head.

Penned by Oliver Stone wearing a leisure suit, this film rides a high wave of 80's over-indulgence on a bullet, and would rather die than suffer a single moment of withdrawal. A film this big deserves the biggest screen downtown, and we've got it.

Get tickets here

Steven and Sasha give us an EXPERIENCE

Steven Soderbergh's THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE
Exclusive Austin Engagement at the Alamo South Lamar!
Advance tickets available here

Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (TRAFFIC, OCEAN'S ELEVEN) and Adult Video News Award-winning porn queen Sasha Grey (HAIRY MOVIE, SPORTY GIRLS 2) join forces to bring us an intimate look at a world we can't afford.

Five days in the life of Chelsea (Grey), an ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her clients, but companionship and conversation - "the girlfriend experience."

Chelsea thinks she has her life totally under control- she feels her future is secure because she runs her own business her own way, makes $2000 an hour, and has a devoted boyfriend (Chris Santos) who accepts her lifestyle. But when you're in the business of meeting people, you never know who you're going to meet.

Get you tickets here

CADDYSHACK QUOTE-ALONG!

THE CADDYSHACK QUOTE-ALONG
Thursdays, May 21 & 28 at the Alamo Ritz
Advance Tix available here

God damn it, I wish I'd worked in an amusement park, or at a swimming pool, or at a summer camp, or in a country club for at least one summer during high school or college. I've never even liked golf all that much, but I definitely would have learned if I could have had a summer like this. Not only do you get to hook up with the rich hot girl who's visiting from New York, but you get to be friends with Chevy Chase back when he was an endearing sarcastic mumbler, you get to hang out with Bill Murray, and you get to win a college scholarship with the help of explosions! Come on!

So maybe working at a real country club isn't like that at all, but it sure should be. CADDYSHACK shows us everything that an 80s movie can be, complete with the old blowhard who doesn't like the kids and misfits who just want to have fun, the random shots of boobs when you least expect them, and, of course, quotable line after quotable line.

So it's got that going for it, which is nice. And we'll make it even nicer by subtitling all of our favorite lines, bringing in soggy Baby Ruths for everyone to enjoy, and starting the whole shebang with an in-the-theater golf competition.

REPO MAN at the Ritz

Music Monday: REPO MAN
Wednesday Night at the Alamo Ritz!
Get your tickets here

Beautiful 35mm print!!

REPO MAN is considered to be The Ultimate Punk Film. In fact, REPO MAN could be called The Ultimate '80s Film, with its shipwrecked characters living low beneath the shadows of the crummy Reagan era.

Otto (Emilio Estevez) is a go-nowhere L.A. punk whose life takes a turn for the crazy when he's enlisted by a crew of self-destructive, nihilistic repo men (including Sy Richardson and Harry Dean Stanton). Meanwhile, a mysterious cop-evaporating force threatens to change the laws of science as we know it. Featuring a hilarious script and a soundtrack from Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Iggy Pop and Fear, plus enough zoned out new wave maniacs to fill a mental ward. There is no movie experience like this one, and Cox is considered one of the reigning kings of cult film for a thousand reasons, all of which are on fearless display in this blue-collar masterpiece.

Check out these REPO MAN Menu Specials!

Plate o' shrimp
Five jumbo beer battered deep fried or grilled shrimp, fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce

Can o' food
A tin can full of "food"! Simmered beef tips in brown gravy served along side a bowl of basmati rice, and a small spinach salad

And of course, we'll have plenty of "beer"!

Get your tickets here

Girlie Night: CAN'T HARDLY WAIT

Girlie Night presents
CAN'T HARDLY WAIT
With super Ladybird Special prizes from Birds Barbershop!
Tues, May 19, 8pm at the Alamo Ritz
Advance tix available here

Every once in awhile, I miss high school. You, know, those halcyon days when social status was defined by cafeteria tables and weekends were full of house parties where people puked in the pool, when my biggest problem was whether or not I should break up with my hot but totally stupid jock boyfriend in favor of the sweet and sensitive editor of the literary magazine...except, OH WAIT, that wasn't my life! I never got invited to wild parties, and the chances of me getting a boyfriend were on par with the development of my boobs - nonexistent.

CAN'T HARDLY WAIT is the High School party Movie of the 90s, and it delivers on everything you would expect from this genre: a lovesick "nerd" unbelievably played by a totally adorable actor; a smart and sassy indie chick who tells it like it is; a trifecta of nerds who make lots of X-Files references; twenty different party montages paired with '90s alt rock (yes!); and, of course, major comic relief in the form of Special K, the white kid who thinks he's black.

Bring your yearbooks for a little sharing time before the movie begins, cuz like Melissa Joan Hart says, "THESE ARE MEMORIES FROZEN IN TIME PEOPLE!" Join us on Girlie Night, and we can all laugh together about that time we got locked in a bathroom with Seth Green. Yeah, that was awesome.
(Sarah Pitre)

REPO MAN at the Ritz

Music Monday: REPO MAN
Music Monday (tonight!) and Wednesday Night at the Alamo Ritz!
Get your tickets here

Beautiful 35mm print!!

REPO MAN is considered to be The Ultimate Punk Film. In fact, REPO MAN could be called The Ultimate '80s Film, with its shipwrecked characters living low beneath the shadows of the crummy Reagan era.

Otto (Emilio Estevez) is a go-nowhere L.A. punk whose life takes a turn for the crazy when he's enlisted by a crew of self-destructive, nihilistic repo men (including Sy Richardson and Harry Dean Stanton). Meanwhile, a mysterious cop-evaporating force threatens to change the laws of science as we know it. Featuring a hilarious script and a soundtrack from Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Iggy Pop and Fear, plus enough zoned out new wave maniacs to fill a mental ward. There is no movie experience like this one, and Cox is considered one of the reigning kings of cult film for a thousand reasons, all of which are on fearless display in this blue-collar masterpiece.

Check out these REPO MAN Menu Specials!

Plate o' shrimp
Five jumbo beer battered deep fried or grilled shrimp, fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce

Can o' food
A tin can full of "food"! Simmered beef tips in brown gravy served along side a bowl of basmati rice, and a small spinach salad

And of course, we'll have plenty of "beer"!

Get your tickets here

Master Pancake vs ROCKY IV

Master Pancake Theatre: ROCKY IV
Starts this weekend at the Alamo Ritz!
Advance tickets available here

Master Pancake gives a body blow to one of the most awesomely bad movies ever: ROCKY IV!

The biggest of the Rocky films at the box office, this one exudes the 1980s from its steroid-addled, Reagan-era core. This is the one where Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) single-handedly ends the cold war through the power of boxing. By the end of the climactic match in Russia against the evil Drago (Dolph Lundgren), the Russian people love Rocky so much that even the Soviet President (Gorbachev lookalike David Lloyd Austin) has to give our hero a begrudging 80'-style slow-clap.

Are you a montage lover? This movie contains THREE separate montages. The first montage is actually composed of montages from the first three Rocky movies: it's a META-montage! On top of that, you've got an amazing 80's fist-pumping soundtrack that one reviewer on Amazon aptly called "an outstanding workout CD", a cameo performance by James Brown and a WTF subplot about a sexy robot-maid that falls in love with Paulie (and, not surprisingly, out-acts Stallone).

Get your ticket to the fight here

The 90s One-Hit Wonders Sing-Along!

THE 90s ONE-HIT WONDERS SING-ALONG
Thursdays, May 14, 21 & 28 at the Ritz
advance tix available here

When you think of ‘90s fashion your instincts probably lead you to the flannels and ripped jeans and long greasy haired guys of grunge first and foremost. And it’s true, grunge was a big part of the ‘90s. But as the eclectic mix of artists in our collection of One-Hit Wonders will show you, there were so many other things happening back then as well.

Remember when the Gap decided that suddenly swing should make a comeback, so then everyone started wearing khaki pants? And wallet chains. Dear god, the wallet chains just wouldn’t cease.

The 1990s also gave us the Reebok Pump, Rollerblades, Beanie Babies, and The Macarena.

So get your slap bracelets out, catch up on your SAVED BY THE BELL, and get ready for the ultimate dance party of the millenium - the previous millenium, I mean.(Henri)

STAR TREK DOMINATION

STAR TREK at the Alamo Ritz
Advance tickets available here
STAR TREK at the Alamo South Lamar
Advance tickets available here
STAR TREK at the Alamo Village in 4K Digital Projection
Advance tickets available here

"Blasting onto the screen at warp speed and remaining there for two hours, the new and improved Star Trek will transport fans to sci-fi nirvana."
- Todd McCarthy, VARIETY

"4 Stars"
-Marc Savlov, THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE

J.J. Abrams' new STAR TREK jump-starts the old, rusted franchise with 10,000,000 volts of Summer Action Adrenaline. Across the board, critics are praising this much-needed film face-lift as an entertaining ass-kicker for both Trekkies and Trek-haters alike. And the Alamo is THE PLACE to see it.

The Alamo staff are something of Star Trek aficionados, from top to bottom. From both the programming and kitchen side of things, you can expect an unparalleled STAR TREK experience, from the deftly tuned Trek-themed pre-show to the glass of stiff Romulan Ale to the rich bowl of Plomeek soup and more!

Plus, the Alamo projection team takes pride in being the best, biggest, loudest and brightest for the ultimate blockbuster body slam. And at the Alamo Village, our new 4K digital projection system is the best in the galaxy.

This movie is what Summer is all about. See it. And just try not to become a total Trekkie- we dare you.

Now playing at the Alamo Ritz, South Lamar and Village.

The 90s One Hit Wonders Sing-Along

THE 90s ONE-HIT WONDERS SING-ALONG
Thursdays, May 7, 14, 21 & 28 at the Ritz
advance tix available here

When you think of ‘90s fashion your instincts probably lead you to the flannels and ripped jeans and long greasy haired guys of grunge first and foremost. And it’s true, grunge was a big part of the ‘90s. But as the eclectic mix of artists in our collection of One-Hit Wonders will show you, there were so many other things happening back then as well.

Remember when the Gap decided that suddenly swing should make a comeback, so then everyone started wearing khaki pants? And wallet chains. Dear god, the wallet chains just wouldn’t cease.

The 1990s also gave us the Reebok Pump, Rollerblades, Beanie Babies, and The Macarena.

So get your slap bracelets out, catch up on your SAVED BY THE BELL, and get ready for the ultimate dance party of the millenium - the previous millenium, I mean.(Henri)

THE DIONYSIUM

SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER presents
THE DIONYSIUM
Weds, May 6, 7pm at the Alamo South Lamar
Advance tickets available here

One of our favorite monthly series, and one we don't get to highlight on this page of our website nearly often enough, is Salvage Vanguard Theater's THE DIONYSIUM, a unique, innovative program of debate, lecture, declamation, theatrical presentation and music in a salon-like atmosphere on the first Wednesday of every month at the Alamo South Lamar.

Audiences enjoy offerings not to be found elsewhere in Austin, including the recitation of famous speeches, participatory discussion in a formal, moderated context, and the opportunity to participate in the recreation of Ancient rituals. A typical DIONYSIUM show will feature a lecture, a declamation, a drinking song, a film or live musical performance, an appeal to Dionysus, a fiction-writing contest, and plenty of strong drink. But the heart of every DIONYSIUM is the debate, pitting two experts against each other in toe-to-toe parliamentary combat. Tonight's show at the Alamo South Lamar is no exception, as architecture and planning are the name of the game at this week's DIONYSIUM! Featuring:

A Presentation!
The Blanton Museum will present a cool presentation on their current exhibit, Birth of the Cool. It's gonna be cool!

A Debate!
Resolved: Austin's Energy Ordinance Imposes an Unfair and Unnecessary Burden on Property Owners
Featuring Emily Chenevert from the Government Affairs Department at the Austin Board of Realtors vs. Kurt Hildebrand, returning Dionysium debate monster!

A Really Short Presentation!
Wayne Alan Brenner briefly lets us in on the big cool project that has occupied his time for the last year: Minerva's Wreck!

A Lecture!
City Council Candidate Chris Riley will speak on urban design or something of the sort, in a manner that will be interesting but also enjoyable!

A Cartoon!
You know what those are!

A Presentation/Lecture!
Michael Antenora of Antenora Architects will present a architectural presentation that will be a lot cooler than you might think, unless you love the idea of architecture presentations. It's a win/win!

Grab your tickets here, and come armed with your own questions for the debaters!