Whenever people ask Richard Linklater what’s special about his adopted hometown of Austin, Texas, he points out the city’s odd triptych of industrial-era landmarks: the State Capitol building, the ...

“It’s like the high school reunion where you actually want to see everybody.” Oscar-nominated Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater had a big smile on Tuesday evening at the Paramount Theatre. More than ...

“Slacker”Most of us have wandered around aimlessly at some point in our lives, making chit chat here and there, having the random odd experience, encountering a strange person or two, all the while ...

A young film-lover who had never made a movie in his life, Kevin Smith then went to see a low-budget indie flick and ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Teresa Taylor, an early drummer for the indie rock band Butthole Surfers who had a small but memorable role in the 1990 film Slacker as a “pusher” trying to sell an unusual Madonna souvenir, died ...

In his “making of” book (St. Martin’s Press, 1992), the following passage, Linklater’s own, appears: “I guess it all started for me when I wandered into a Dead Kennedys show in the summer of 1984. …As ...

Joshua Jackson, a child actor when he starred in a Seattle-based musical production of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” is now best-known for his role as teenage motormouth Pacey Witter on ...