Even as Austin-based cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse continues its expansion into new markets across the country, its distribution arm Drafthouse Films is heading right to your front door. The label has just launched a new subscription club called Drafthouse Alliance, which gets members a series of Drafthouse Films Blu-ray (or DVD) releases delivered right to their…
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This is the week The Hunger Games officially takes over the world. Try as we might to fight the system, we can't escape – that is unless we kill every last one of you. As I'm writing this I've yet to see HG, but I know I'll dig it because the concept of deadly competition…
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This is the point where I admit that I really don't 'get' The FP. The film from the Trost Bros appears to be some sort of view into a world where The Warriors and Rocky were funneled through a Dance Dance Revolution machine. Somehow, what emerged is a story of "the deadly arena of competitive…
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The FP has been on our radar for almost a year when it first premiered at South by Southwest 2011. The 2012 version of that festival is now just around the corner and, finally, the Trost Bros' Dance Dance Revolution action comedy is getting a proper release on March 16 ( you can get the…
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Good news for those eager to find out exactly why Benicio del Toro is picking on Blake Lively in that first image from Savages: Universal has just shifted the opening date for Oliver Stone's latest from September 28 to July 6. Savages is the only film currently scheduled to go up against Marc Webb's The…
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One of the most buzzed-about films out of this year's South by Southwest was the Trost Brothers' The FP, which screened as part of the SXFantastic series. The offbeat indie takes place in a retrofuturistic, post-apocalyptic world in which gangs settle scores via video-game dancing (think Dance Dance Revolution). Going by the trailer, it seems to…
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With South by Southwest now in the books, it's time the people who weren't there to do an inventory: what got picked up, what didn't, what do we need to keep on our radars and what can we forget about. One of the films that piqued many people's interest and really set off a lot…
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The latest batch of posters from Mondo, the retail outfit associated with the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin TX, is all over the place. Mondo is doing posters for several films playing the SXSW Film Festival in Austin next week, and we've already seen images for Paul, Moon and Source Code. Now there are two new…
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