ALL ABOUT EVIL with amazing guests!

ALL ABOUT EVIL with Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson, Mink Stole & Peaches Christ LIVE IN PERSON!
Saturday, May 15th at The Ritz
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Rebecca Havemeyer and Peaches Christ present a special live premiere!

Premiere screening! Celebrities! Live insanity on stage! Exclamation point!

The directorial debut of Midnight Movie impresario Joshua Grannell (better known as "Peaches Christ") is a twisted black comedy with performances by Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Dekker, Noah Segan, cult icon Mink Stole, and Cassandra Peterson (although her fans may know her better as Elvira)! It's a twisted black comedy set in the world of a classic old horror movie -- and a love letter to classic movie houses everywhere! The evil begins when Deborah, a mousy librarian, inherits her father's beloved but failing old movie house, the Victoria. In order to save the family business, she discovers her inner serial killer -- and starts turning out a series of grisly short films. What blood-curdling fate awaits those that dare enter the Victoria Theatre? Find out in ALL ABOUT EVIL!

Something For Mom...

MAMMA MIA! Mother's Day Brunch Spectacular!
Sunday @ The Alamo Village
Advance tickets available here

This feature-film adaptation of the beloved ABBA Broadway sensation (seen by more than 30 million people!) had a lot of hype leading up to its release last year. And damn if it didn't live up to every ounce.

Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in an eye-popping, dance-inducing celebration of love and music. An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna (Streep), is about to let go of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), the spirited daughter she's raised alone. For Sophie's wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends -- practical and no-nonsense Rosie (Julie Walters) and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya (Christine Baranski) -- from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities.

This Mother's Day, come ready to sing, dance and delight in a lavish brunch menu with plenty of bubbly!

Check out the menu!

First:
Roast Goat
Roesti Potato Hash topped with a duck egg and brie sauce
Pairing - Fresh Juice Champagne cocktail

Second:
Stuffed Trio
Dolma, balsamic syrup
Cremini, sausage, stilton
Boiled red potato, smoked salmon florette, roe, Crème Fraiche
Pairing - Boutari Moshofilero, Greece

Third:
Meatball Trio
Swedish on potato pancake
Greek on mini pita with yogurt
English on whole grain toast with brown gravy
Pairing - Turnbull "Old Red Bull" Napa Valley

Fourth:
Seafood Salad Trio
octopus, trout, shrimp salads with pomegranite-grapefruit relish and served with Knokker Brod
Pairing - Bouvet Brut, France

Fifth:
Traditional Greek wedding honey cheesecake
Pairing - Port Royal with Taylor Fladgate Port, Portugal

Only a few tickets left! Get 'em here and get 'em fast or you'll be grounded!

I love you, Ma.

IRON MAN 2 Now Playing!

IRON MAN 2
Now playing at all theaters!
Get tickets for THE RITZ, VILLAGE, or S. LAMAR!

BLOGGER'S NOTE: Having just come from the Iron Man double feature, I can assure you that this movie is totally awesome. Robert Downey, Jr. KILLS once again, Mickey Rourke makes a wicked bad guy, and Scarlett Johannsen should probably do more action movies. Highly enjoyable! Summer Blockbusters for the win!

Even before he strapped booster jets onto his boots and uttered out, "Yup, I can fly" in IRON MAN, Robert Downey, Jr.'s Tony Stark was the whiskey-sipping super hero we at the Alamo could get behind. At long last he's back on the big screen and we'll be the best theater in town to watch and drink along with Stark as he takes on Whiplash and, according to the new poster, Scarlett Johansson's ample booty.

Take a look at me NOOWWW!

The Action Pack: NO SHAME: THE SOFT ROCK SING-ALONG

THURSDAY, MAY 6 @ 9:30PM

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE!

You know that feeling when you're walking around in the grocery store and they're playing some sort of super safe consumer soft rock so that no one feels threatened and everyone can keep buying their frozen dinners in peace when suddenly that one song comes on and you catch yourself singing along lightly under your breath only to realize that the other people in the aisle are looking at you and kind of shaking their heads in disbelief that you'll actually admit liking Phil Collins in public that much? Yeah. This Sing-Along is like saying a great big, "Fuck you" to those haters in the grocery store. The songs that you took off your iPod's general playlist for fear that they'd come on the shuffle while you're driving along with that new beau you're trying to impress? THAT'S ALL THAT'S IN THIS SHOW. The song you listen to on repeat in the middle of the night when you're lying on your couch staring at the ceiling and wondering how you ended up being the empty shell of a person you are now after feeling so much promise and potential when you were a teenager and first discovered that ballad? Well, I'll never admit which song that is for me, BUT IT'S IN THIS SHOW, TOO. Along with Billy Joel, Elton John, U2, the Police and all of your other Adult Contemporary favorites. And if that makes your eyes well up just a little bit, just let those tears flow down your cheeks, man, because this show is all about NO SHAME. (Henri Mazza)

INCONCEIVABLE!

Action Pack: THE PRINCESS BRIDE Quote-Along
Tonight at the Ritz
Advance tickets available here

THE PRINCESS BRIDE was actually the very first Quote-Along we ever produced at the Alamo, long before we realized that it would become an incredibly fun series of shows or that anything called The Action Pack would ever exist.

In the early summer of 2007 we were preparing to close the Colorado Street location in anticipation of opening the Ritz when the Alamo's promotions director and I were cutting the trailer for what we thought was a regular screening of THE PRINCESS BRIDE and I typed in "A Quote-Along!" into the title cards on screen. I didn't initially know what a Quote-Along show would actually look and feel like, but I knew that it HAD to be a good time. But I had no idea how magical it would actually be...

When the whole crowd smacked their heads along with Vizzini every time he said, "Inconceivable!" and the sound of the smacking was followed by small cheers and laughs, the room felt like it was coated in the same kind of fairy tale happiness as the film. We've been doing Quote-Alongs for a while now, but it's been too long since we've done THE PRINCESS BRIDE, and the last time we subtitled it we had to rely on mere DVD quality. Now that there's a beautifully crisp blu-ray available, we figure it's high time to fix that.

Once again, we'll start with a "battle for the princess" where contestants from the crowd will come up on stage to sword fight like Inigo, rhyme like Fezzik, and engage their wits like Vizzini. Then we'll move on to the feature film, with subtitles for key lines, head smacking encouraged, huge inflatable swords to wave at each other every time we say, "You killed my father, prepare to die!" and soo much more.
(Henri Mazza)

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Do You Have a Plethora of Pinatas?

The Cinco de Mayo THREE AMIGOS Feast-Along!
Wednesday at the Alamo Ritz
Advance tickets available here

THE THREE AMIGOS is a guilty pleasure if there ever was one. But we're not here to make you feel the guilt, we're here to bring you the pleasure. And there are few things more pleasant than a delicious Cinco De Mayo feast. So while Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short take their comedy stylings south of the border onscreen, Ritz Chef Elijah Horgan will be creating a fusion between Mexican favorites and Texas gringo comfort food. Best of all, in between bites of your masa cakes you can shout out your favorite lines from the movie, helpfully subtitled for you. Plus there will be a plethora of other surprises!

Check out menu from Ritz chef Elijah Horgan!

I
Shrimp Ceviche Tostada
Tostada topped with shrimp, fresh lime, jalapenos, tomatoes and spices.

II
"Three Amigos"
Trio of masa cakes topped with guajillo spiced pork, red pepper beef, and bean and cheese. Served with a black bean and corn salad.

III
"Buttercup Flan"
Traditional mexican flan served with a caramel sauce and peanut cup mousse topped with butter cup shavings.

"Can I have your watch when you are dead?"

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Cinema Club Presents Pre-Code Classic NIGHT NURSE

CINEMA CLUB PRESENTS NIGHT NURSE

FEATURING LIVE DISCUSSION WITH ALAMO PROGRAMMERS AND WRITER KIM MORGAN

Sunday, May 2, 7pm at the Ritz

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You know that sensation you get from old movies sometimes, that they're winking at you across an expanse of years, sneaking in a private dirty joke here and there? Well, NIGHT NURSE isn't just winking, it's not sneaking; it's kicking down the door and getting wild. NIGHT NURSE is one of the glories of pre-code cinema, that is to say the movies mad before Hollywood began censoring itself.

Writer Kim Morgan is the ideal choice to join us as expert commentator for NIGHT NURSE, she's a great enthusiast of both pre-code cinema and the films of Barbara Stanwyck. You may know her work on TV and you've probably read her on MSN and The Huffington Post, but our favorite Kim Morgan work is her fine writing for her own site Sunset Gun.

NIGHT NURSE
Rated NR; 72min; Director:William A. Wellman (1931)
One of the most salacious and entertaining pre-code features. NIGHT NURSE could certainly never have been made under the censorious "production code." It's vulgar, it's rude, it's full of innuendo - in other words - it's great! Barbara Stanwyck, fresh from New York, is at her sexy, gum-chewing best as a young nurse who uncovers a horrifying case of child neglect and murder while working for a wealthy family. She uses her wiles (and her bootlegger boyfriend's shady underworld connections) to set things straight. The sequences in the nursing school, showing Stanwyck's training and indoctrination, tell us more about the lot of poor women during the depression than a dozen history books. Fascinating, funny, not for the easily shocked - this deserves to be an underground classic with a cult of its own. Vivacious Joan Blondell matches Stanwyck step-for-step as her best friend at school. The brutal chauffeur, Nick, is played by Clark Gable, pre-stardom. Director William "Wild Bill" Wellman made five other films in the same year, including the James Cagney classic THE PUBLIC ENEMY.(Lars)