“I’m not an advocate of people dying, but in this case, it’s okay.” The experience of watching Murder Bury Win can be summed up in this single line spoken by aspiring board game designer and accidental criminal Chris (Mikelen Walker).

Everybody's been there. You move to a new city, you make some new friends, and it turns out that one of these perfect strangers is actually a maniac determined to turn your life upside down. OK, maybe that doesn't happen to everybody, and Austin-to-L.A. transplant Vincent Van Horn had a much easier transition.

"I still have PTSD from making that movie." So sayeth Richard Linklater about Dazed and Confused, and he gets to relive that trauma with an upcoming book and special virtual signing event, hosted by Austin Film Society.

“Be Like the Water,” today’s second drop from the upcoming solo debut by Jonas Wilson, delivers a double barrel curl. Most importantly, inside the guitarist’s Science Fiction Post Blues dwells all the right ghosts in the machine. That the aqua reverberator simultaneously courses through a 20-minute tease of Bastrop distributes justice for all.

For Beto Martinez, the cultural synthesis of growing up in Laredo near the Texas/Mexico border, proved formative.

Clue. Ouija. Battleship. Jumanji (sorta). We've had movies based on board games, but Murder Bury Win, the new dark comedy from Michael Lovan, is something different: It's a movie about board games.

Why does Aaron B. Koontz keep killing Jeremy King? "I lie awake at night," the actor mused, "wondering why Aaron Koontz, maybe, possibly, in the back of his mind, maybe doesn't like me. And doesn't like me so much that he wants to kill me whenever he gets the chance."

Raise your hand if you’ve ever tried to cut your own hair. Just a couple of months ago, I was in a bind and didn’t have the time to find a salon, schedule an appointment, make the drive and wait in the waiting room, so I took matters into my own hands.

When you're a kid, you should be able to trust adults. And if you can't do that, at least you've got other kids. In modern Gothic thriller The Boy Behind the Door, the transgressions and aggressions of adults mean its young protagonists have to count on each other when they are kidnapped and bundled in the trunk of a car.