Where to begin? So much shizzz going on it's hard to decide. I guess start at the top? Obamz did his part for the queer kidz by making one of those It Gets Better videos. Once again he does some minimal thing that makes it truly hard to totally write him off.

Bedside. San Diego, California—or was this Los Angeles? It could have been Tucson. It’s definitely not Phoenix. In Phoenix, I stayed in a nice hotel with a carpeted floor and a bed so tall, I nearly needed a step stool to get in to it.

With its fart jokes and its fat jokes, Mexican comedy Adios Mundo Cruel is as broad as they come. That's not all it has in common with the cinematic classics.

Folks from the National Trust for Historic Preservation are in town for their annual conference, but before they retreat to their board rooms, they're out and about – video cameras in hand – hoping to learn what Austin can teach other cities about growing old gracefully.

It was a really good week to be Andrew Lanham.

Horton Foote's daughter, Hallie Foote, an actress who has appeared in many stage productions of her father's acclaimed plays, was in attendance for the Austin Film Festival's world premiere of Main Street, the film made from the unproduced, final screenplay left behind at the time of the author's death in 2009.

At today’s awards luncheon at the Austin Club, the Austin Film Fsetival announced its competition winners, including a big win for a UT grad.

Sometimes I find myself missing my old hometown even though I still live here.

When elite members of the print and online film criticism community gathered to talk shop at Friday’s Film Criticism and the Industry panel, the movie that was on the tip of everyone's tongue? Transformers 2. Yeah, we didn’t see that coming.