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The Alamo Drafthouse Will Kick Greg Abbott Out Of Its Theaters If He Talks...
The Alamo Drafthouse has made national news in the past for its “Don’t Talk Or Text During A Movie” PSAs (as residents of the “Magnited States Of America” are surely aware). In their latest PSA, the...
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The Next Picture Show
The Granada Theatre opened in 1929, when the small town of Plainview was booming. The first train had arrived in 1906, on the Santa Fe Railroad, and waves of settlers followed, drawn to the rich soil...
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‘Friday Night Lights’ Is Revived In New Alamo Drafthouse PSA
As “career defining roles” go, Kyle Chandler landed the best one ever when he signed on to play Coach Eric Taylor for five seasons of Friday Night Lights. If your on-screen persona is defined as...
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Our Alamo Drafthouse #DontTalk Bracket Begins Monday
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s expansion across Texas—and, indeed, around the U.S.—has helped introduce principles like “seriously, you jerks, turn off your cell phones before the film starts” and...
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The Naked and the D.A.
The current battle over pornography boils down to this: will these doors be open?Geoff Winningham Shortly after four o’clock last January 22, when the sidewalks of Fort Worth’s red brick Main Street...
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From Fellini to Deep Throat
The first theater in Houston to show Deep Throat was also the first theater to show the currently revived King of Hearts as well as Antonioni’s Red Desert, Truffaut’s The Soft Skin, Godard’s Vivre Sa...
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A FEW YEARS AGO A movie I had been waiting quite a while to see finally arrived at a theater in Houston. The day it was to open I had to leave town and wasn’t able to make it back for two weeks. I...
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Why Aren’t Most Movie Theaters in Texas Reopening?
On Monday, Texas governor Greg Abbott announced that movie theaters—along with malls, restaurants, and retailers—would be included in the state’s phase one plan to reopen businesses after the...
View ArticleHi Ho Silver, Olé!
YOU PROBABLY THOUGHT THE LAST time Cowboy Bob fired umpteen shots out of his six-shooter, laying waste to all the guys in black hats, looked romantically into the eyes of the school marm, then kissed...
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WHEN DRIVE-IN THEATERS CAME TO South Texas in the late forties, most residents were unclear on the concept. Watching a movie from inside your car had not been tried before, and I think the idea caused...
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Now showing at Texas’ vintage movie houses: a film of dust. The old-fashioned single-screen theaters that dominated small-town life for more than half a century are boarded up and falling down. They...
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How the Pandemic Showed Me a Different Way to Watch Movies
It was the end of March 2020, two weeks into the slow-dawning, shivering realization that the coronavirus pandemic had not just put the world on pause but had shut it down. Routine objects of everyday...
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