A Werner Herzog/David Lynch Joint

MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE
Opens Friday 1/29 at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

“A surreal descent into a twilight zone created by the twisted sensibilities of two cinematic geniuses…an antidote to the Oscar-bait blockbusters clogging theaters.“
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

“Herzog has gone beyond Good and Evil to reinvent himself as a candidate for the wiggiest director of comedy in America today.”
J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

“A perfect storm of cinematic weirdness…the film’s very oddness achieves a “Twin Peaks” level of artful ingenuity.”
Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR

We are very proud to start Austin's exclusive run of Werner Herzog's (BAD LIEUTENANT, AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD, GRIZZLY MAN) new film. Produced by David Lynch, the genius behind "Twin Peaks," BLUE VELVET, ERASERHEAD, and many other great films, this new surreal journey into madness is sure to knock you out. It is artistically demanding, psychologically insightful, and, most of all, funny.

This is an interesting new work that should be sipped like a fine wine, but with the insanity and deadpan humor that BAD LIEUTENANT impressed us all with last fall. One week only! Be sure not to miss the film that everybody's talking about.

Get your tickets for this great movie now!

You're My Boy, Blue!

The Action Pack presents the
OLD SCHOOL QUOTE-ALONG and KEG PARTY!
Weds, Jan 27, 10:30pm at the Village
Advance tix available here!

OLD SCHOOL is one of those movies that's so freaking hilarious that every time anyone associated with the movie makes another movie, their credit as part of the team that brought you OLD SCHOOL is put on the poster and trailer for the later project. And there's good reason for that.

Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Luke Wilson's trio of aging suburbanites reclaiming the glory of their college days (with none of the hassle of skipping class) was an instant classic, and all these years later quotes from the film still fly around every frat party (and parties where people are hanging out and making fun of frat guys). It's fitting, then, that not only will we bring out our usual Quote-Along tricks of subtitling our favorite lines and inviting everyone in the theater to yell them out with us, but for this show we're also going to be throwing a full on Keg Party, and we'll be selling wristbands good for multiple drinks from a keg right in the theater.

Sure, you could also just order by the pitcher from your server, but you can't do a pitcher stand like you can with a keg stand, and what's the point of drinking if you can't do it upside down? (Henri Mazza)

MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE

MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE - Opens Friday 1/29 at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

“A surreal descent into a twilight zone created by the twisted sensibilities of two cinematic geniuses…an antidote to the Oscar-bait blockbusters clogging theaters.“
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

“Herzog has gone beyond Good and Evil to reinvent himself as a candidate for the wiggiest director of comedy in America today.”
J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

“A perfect storm of cinematic weirdness…the film’s very oddness achieves a “Twin Peaks” level of artful ingenuity.”
Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR

We are very proud to start Austin's exclusive run of Werner Herzog's (BAD LIEUTENANT, AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD, GRIZZLY MAN) new film. Produced by David Lynch, the genius behind "Twin Peaks," BLUE VELVET, ERASERHEAD, and many other great films, this new surreal journey into madness is sure to knock you out. It is artistically demanding, psychologically insightful, and, most of all, funny.

This is an interesting new work that should be sipped like a fine wine, but with the insanity and deadpan humor that BAD LIEUTENANT impressed us all with last fall. One week only! Be sure not to miss the film that everybody's talking about.

Get your tickets for this great movie now!

GI Joe Stop-Motion Insanity: VIVA THE NAM!

VIVA THE NAM - Wed 7pm at Alamo Ritz
Get those tickets HERE!

The Alamo is proud (and shocked) to present the first feature-length no-rules stop-motion action comedy to star only action figures: Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy's VIVA THE 'NAM (world premiering at this screening). A "mega-semi-sequel" to their earlier fest winner WAR: AMERICAN STYLE, VIVA depicts the bizarre adventures of Pvt. Joe Holmes, a marine stationed in Vietnam's "I Corps" from 1968-1969. The last of a family line that has lost a man in every single American conflict, Holmes will have to overcome communist armies, Russian Roulette rounds, USO riots, bloodthirsty drill instructors, leeches, drunk drivers, an M16-wielding Charlton Heston, and poop-smoking Frenchmen to make it out of Vietnam alive!

Don't take our word for it...read the incredible coverage from Marc Savlov at the Chronicle!

Made over the course of eight years (!!), VIVA THE NAM is a sprawling epic the likes of which GI Joe stop-motion animation has never seen before. Don't miss this opportunity to witness cinematic history while busting a few guts. Tickets are HERE!

SOUL NITE returns to The Ritz!

Music Monday: SOUL NITE III w/ Guest Curator Peter Lucas!
9:45p tonight at the Alamo Ritz
Only $2! Tickets available here

Soul Nite! is back with an all-new selection of vintage footage! This time, guest curator and host Peter Lucas focuses on performances of the late-'60s and early-'70s, when music was merging and new forms of funky were born. Don't miss Sly & The Family Stone, Ike & Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder and many others up on the big screen and cranked up loud. You know the deal: it's the funkiest good time you'll have in a movie theater, and that is a stone cold guarantee!

Get your ticket here!

Judgment Day comes to the Ritz

Action Pack Theater presents
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
in glorious 35mm with live explosions and gunfire
Sundays, Jan 24 & 31
Advance tickets available here

Take the most badass action movies of all time, bring some new pyrotechnics into the theater that are capable of bringing the explosions onscreen out into the real world, and hand out a few cap guns so select audience members can help the gunfire in the movie come through in a new definition of surround sound, and what do you say? Fuck yeah!

Fuck yeah, you do. For this inaugural screening of Action Pack Theater we're breaking out the big guns with a full on 35mm film print of TERMINATOR 2 and a whole bevy of new pyro devices we haven't used at any of our other shows.

And while we're showing the 35mm print and can't put any subtitles up on the screen, we're still gonna bring in some of the Action Pack mainstays by inviting the audience to quote-along to the super key lines, shoot-along to the super key gun battles, and Fuck-Yeah-along to all of the awesomest moments. And no, we don't know exactly what that means yet, because the first show is this Sunday. But we're sure it's going to be incredible.

God damn, I'm excited. When I first saw TERMINATOR 2 in the theater, my brain melted like the T-1000. "Hasta la vista, baby" made its way into my regular vocabulary (hey, I was 14 that year, so lay off!), and the image of the wasteland after Judgment Day was seared into my memories forever. The latest attempt to salvage the Terminator franchise wasn't the coolest movie ever, but T2 IS the coolest movie ever, and we're excited to start off ACTION PACK THEATER with the loudest bang possible.
(Henri Mazza)

Get your advance tickets to T2 here, and keep up to date on Action Pack Theater and all of their other shows and parties by following them on Twitter: @theactionpack.

A TOWN CALLED PANIC

A TOWN CALLED PANIC
Thursday midnight at South Lamar (Tickets here)
Opens Friday at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

“A TOWN CALLED PANIC proves you don’t need fancy CGI techniques, 3-D, or stunt voice casting to make a sparkly little gem.”
Leslie Felperin, Variety

“There’s really very little to say about this film beyond that it’s absolutely brilliant.”
Peter Brunette, The Hollywood Reporter

“The film’s humor, simultaneously giddy and satirical, is reminiscent of “South Park” and the “Wallace & Gromit” movies, but it’s less pointed, more poetic.”
Mike Hale, New York Times

“I enjoyed this film so much I’m sorry to report it was finally too much of a muchness. You can only eat so much cake. But I don’t think that’s a problem…It has an innocent hallucinatory charm.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It's hard to believe that a stop motion animated Belgian film about a reckless Cowboy, his best friend the Indian, a super cool horse, and larcenous underwater gill-men could cause all the hard-boiled, seen-it-all programmers at the Alamo and Fantastic Fest to fall all over themselves, but that's exactly the case. We laughed so hard and long at this movie that when it was over, we knew we had to bring it to Austin. The problem was, they weren't planning on releasing it in Austin. So we have jumped through flaming hoops to bring it to you. Would we do that if this movie were anything less than an ATOMIC BOMB of righteousness?

Get your tickets to the Thursday midnight premiere at South Lamar

Get your tickets for the run at the Ritz

HEY HOMO! PRESENTS HEAVENLY CREATURES

HEY HOMO! presents HEAVENLY CREATURES
Tuesday, January 19th at the Ritz
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

The next Hey Homo! screening is right around the corner! This time it's, pre-Lovely-Bones, Peter Jackson's gorgeous animation-meets-young-Kate-Winslet film, Heavenly Creatures.

This is Peter Jackson's masterpiece. Pauline and Juliet, two young New Zealand schoolgirls, share an undeniable bond from the moment they meet. Bored with their families and small town, the girls dream up brilliant fantasies and passionate romances that provide them with a more colorful (and often animated) landscape. Eventually, all the sleepovers and handholding is enough to arouse not only the girls, but the eyebrows of their moralistic parents. Threatened with permanent separation, Pauline and Juliet would do just about anything to keep their love intact. That's when things get nasty. This movie has everything that Hey Homo! has ever hoped to deliver to our audience: hot schoolgirls (and their burning desire for one another), animation and murder.
(Kayla Williams)

Tuesday, January 19th at the Ritz
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

WE ARE ALREADY DEAD! WE ARE ROBOT JOX!

The Action Pack presents: ROBOT JOX in HECKLEVISION
Sunday, January 17th at the Ritz
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!

You know those movies that are so bad that, with a guilty conscience, you kind of love? Well, The Action Pack knows the feeling. That's why we created these HECKLEVISION shows! The basic idea is, we show movies that we really want to make fun of while we watch, but sometimes, unless everyone you know is the Master Pancake crew, listening to people mock a movie is super duper annoying. HECKLEVISION takes out the noise factor and replaces it with TECHNOLOGY! We use a program called MuV Chat (it's like "movie" - but spelled wrong!) that allows users to send a text message to a specific phone number, and then that text message appears on screen. And, if your text is ultra hilarious, the audience will laugh and laugh and you will feel a certain sense of pride. If your text was dumb, and nobody liked it, you can feel safe knowing that you are hidden in a crowd and that nobody knew it was you (unless you set your handle to be your first and last name...). We have decided that ROBOT JOX is just the movie to text to!

Let the Action Pack's Greg MacLennan tell you about the movie:

In a post-World War III world, war has become outlawed and disputes between the super powers are now settled by genetically enhanced super soldiers known as Robot Jox who operate skyscraper-sized robots that combine to become the ultimate killing machines. Stuart Gordon's entry into the way-too short-lived subgenre of robot warrior movies of the early 1990s has all the flash and bang of a young Michael Bay on a shoestring budget. Joe Haldeman, whose sole film credit is this movie, creates verbal poetry with lines like "I kill you already... (points to head) in here.," and "You make my drink taste like blood!" Audio pearls fly at you fast and furiously as the world's two biggest super powers, The Market (good) and The Confederation (bad), face off in a battle for Alaska. A film about gigantic robots battling it out in exotic locales can't be bad, and that's why it makes for a perfect billing for this month’s Hecklevision! Gordon tried to make a live action anime, and I dare say he more than succeeds. Throw in an over the top Texan named "Tex" (duh!) who serves as a glorified one man cheerleading squad, and a menacing evil Russian bad guy named "Alexander"(double duh!) whose robot has a gigantic chainsaw penis, and you got yourself a party. So come on out, arm yourselves with your texting devices, and call yourselves "Techno Jox" as you battle it out for the best Heckle, because in this new age of war, it's not over until somebody wins. (Greg MacLennan)

So bring some witty comments and maybe upgrade your cell plan to unlimited texts!

The Action Pack presents: ROBOT JOX in HECKLEVISION
Sunday, January 17th at the Ritz
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!

DOES MARCELLUS WALLACE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?!

The Action Pack: THE PULP FICTION QUOTE-ALONG
Wednesday, January 13th at the Village - TICKETS
Thursday, January 14th at the Ritz - TICKETS

We will have BIG KAHUNA BURGERS ($9.99 - comes with a free sprite to wash it down!), $5 MILKSHAKES ($5.. duh), and ROYALE WITH CHEESEs at all screenings!

Everybody knows what Marcellus Wallace looks like, and he does not look like a bitch. So we're not gonna try to f*ck him like a bitch. Instead, we're gonna sit and watch Samuel Jackson in one of his most badass roles, and we're gonna drink some $5 milkshakes and quote-along with one of Tarantino's best films.

We're going to yell out all of our favorite lines along with the characters, then we're gonna give EVERYONE in the audience a cap gun of their very own, so when Sammy J. says, "And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!" we can turn the show into a Shoot-Along as well.

And of course we'll have plenty of Royale With Cheese burgers available all night long, and you can walk into a movie theater in Austin and buy a beer. But if you put mayonnaise on your French fries we're still gonna make fun of you, because we're in America. Our names don't mean shit, but we might accidentally shoot you in the face anyway.

TICKETS FOR THE VILLAGE SCREENING TONIGHT (Jan. 13th) CAN BE PURCHASED HERE.

TICKETS FOR THE RITZ SCREENING THURSDAY (Jan. 14th) CAN BE PURCHASED HERE.

Let the Revolution Begin!

YOUTH IN REVOLT
Starts Friday @ The Ritz
Advance tickets available here

YOUTH IN REVOLT is a coming-of-age comedy that puts a fresh and outrageous stamp on a tale of adolescent obsession and rebellion. Starring Michael Cera (JUNO, SUPERBAD) and based on the acclaimed novel by C.D. Payne, YOUTH IN REVOLT is the story of Nick Twisp - a unique, but affable teen with a taste for the finer things in life like Sinatra and Fellini - who falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful, free-spirited Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday) while on a family vacation. But family, geography and jealous ex-lovers conspire to keep these two apart. With Sheeni's encouragement, Nick abandons his dull, predictable life and develops a rebellious alter ego: Francois. With his ascot, his moustache and his cigarette, Francois will stop at nothing to be with Sheeni, and leads Nick Twisp on a path of destruction with unpredictable and uproarious consequences.

With Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long, Fred Willard, Steve Buscemi, Jean Smart and Ray Liotta.

Get your tickets here

LEBOWSKI Forever!

THE BIG LEBOWSKI w/ White Russian Drink Specials!
Wednesday, January 6 @ The Ritz
Advance tickets available here

This is officially the last High For The Holidays screening this year...sad to see it go, but this is the best possible way to say goodbye! THE BIG LEBOWSKI is and always will be an unstoppable punch of 100% pure, uncut Coen-lumbian entertainment! Plus, for this show only, enjoy White Russian drink specials!

From Booze Movies: "THE BIG LEBOWSKI deserves the ever-growing group of passionate devotees it has built up over the years. Although it's a strange cocktail, the picture is well-written, expertly directed, and beautifully acted (especially by Jeff Bridges and John Goodman, who have never been better). The Coen Brothers have described THE BIG LEBOWSKI as their Raymond Chandler story, and it contains all the trappings of the author's hardboiled mystery novels, including the alcohol. Secondly, as a bowling-themed comedy, liquor is a given. Finally and most importantly, THE BIG LEBOWSKI is the ultimate movie for White Russian fans. The Dude fuels his detective work with numerous helpings the sweet drink, which he often refers to as "Caucasians." As long as there is 'half and half' dripping from his mustache, the Dude abides."

Get those tickets here!

Liberty Chew Chewing Tobacco Presents!

STINGRAY SAM
Sunday through Tuesday at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

Rocketing out of the furthest reaches of the galaxy to stir up a massive amount of shocked reactions at Fantastic Fest 2009 was the manic intergalactic comedy musical STINGRAY SAM from writer/director/star Cory McAbee (THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT). Well, we decided that there was no better way to strike out against a new decade than with additional screenings at The Ritz (this Sunday through Tuesday) of this aggressively unique slab of movie insanity.

THE STORY: A dangerous mission reunites STINGRAY SAM with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet.

“McAbee’s incredibly engaging story, not to mention the beautiful black and white photography, makes it just about the most fun you’ll have in the independent theater this year.” – Jeremy Kirk, We are Movie Geeks

“Few films have me chuckling from beginning till end, but this one managed to do it. Well, except when I was laughing. STINGRAY SAM is a cleverly made loving tribute to the serials of old and a darn funny one too.” – Ard Vijn, Twitch

"Like the best science fiction, STINGRAY SAM has an incredible number of ideas per second...and an incredibly awesome soundtrack!"
- Nacho Vigalondo, director of TIMECRIMES

Get tickets here!