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Variety Cover Goes Blu for Rio

 Variety Cover Goes Blu for Rio Image via Blue Sky Studios on Facebook Rio took over the front cover of Daily Variety today as part of its For Your Consideration campaign. The ad emphasizes the film's eight Annie Award nominations to...
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Album Review: D.C. Bloom, “New Man”

The major takeaway from D.C. Bloom’s latest outing, New Man, is a sense of comfort and contentment. There’s a well-being at the center of these eleven songs that makes itself felt even over some of the more concerned tracks (more on that later). But rather...
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Watch First Trailer for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

 Watch First Trailer for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted DreamWorks Animation has uncaged its first, longish teaser trailer for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted at Yahoo! Movies. I have to admit I've never seen the previous films...
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AME 06/23 Pick: Michael Fracasso & Local 99 at the Continental Club

Austin singer-songwriter Michael Fracasso released the smoldering Saint Monday earlier this year, and tonight he plays a hometown spot at the Continental Club. Alongside Fracasso will be crack backers Local 99. The show starts at 10 PM, with...
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Watch New Theatrical Trailer for The Lorax

 Watch New Theatrical Trailer for The Lorax Yahoo! Movies brings us a brand new trailer for Illumination Entertainment's The Lorax, in theatres March 2, 2012. Introduction is provided by Danny DeVito, who voices the film's titular character. Adapted...
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39th Annual Annie Award Nominees Announced

 39th Annual Annie Award Nominees Announced Nominations for the 39th Annual Annie Awards were announced this morning by the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood. The Adventures of Tintin, Cars 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, Rango...
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Album Review: Sounds Under Radio, “Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind”

The ambition of Austin’s overwrought hard rock band Sounds Under Radio is revealed in its first moments, as its untitled (on account of it’s “name” being made up of symbols I don’t know how to type), instrumental opening track builds in intensity until it...
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 Pixar's 'Mind Movie' Set Inside Girl's Brain John Lasseter was on the Charlie Rose show on Friday and made an illuminating comment regarding Pixar's currently untitled movie set inside the human mind: "Pete Docter, from Monsters, Inc....
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Mini Reviews- Albert Nobbs, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Run Lola Run

The theme for these mini reviews is "Being a woman sucks but someone's gotta do it". Hellz yeah, because as the Pussycat Dolls so aptly said, I don't need a man to make it happen *snap snap*. I should shut up now and get on with the reviews. Albert Nobbs...
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Luis Landivar's RED HOOK BLACK: It's a love/hate letter to the B'klyn neighborhood

RED HOOD BLACK, I'm afraid, does not belong in a theater. It belongs on a shelf in its filmmaker's room, to be shared, if requested, with friends and family. If this film had opened two weeks earlier, around the Thanksgiving holiday, I'd have chosen it for...
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