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The Alamo Drafthouse is built on a simple concept: great movies, good food, and most important of all — don’t talk or use your cell phone in the theater, or they will not hesitate to kick you out without a refund. Drafthouse CEO Tim League has devoted his brand to focusing on why we go to theaters in the first place, which is to watch movies, despite what some movie-goers and major corporate chains would have you believe. Following AMC’s briefly disastrous flirtation with allowing people to text in their theaters, League delivered a very thoughtful response, but if you’d rather watch a TL;DR version, you can see his predictably great reaction to this ill-conceived concept in the video above.

If you are looking for something different to do for date night or maybe with a group of friends I have stumbled upon a something new to try.

A local movie theater is stepping up and showing local teachers a little appreciation all week during Spring Break.

The Lubbock Alamo Drafthouse is celebrating Steven Spielberg in September. And part of this special month includes free admission to one of his best films, "Saving Private Ryan," to all active and former members of the military.

The Alamo Drafthouse is presenting a free screening of the 1968 George Romero classic "Night of the Living Dead" Thursday, January 22 in conjunction with Texas Tech's Film Genres: Horror And The Fantastic Course.

Earlier today it was announced that Sony will release ‘The Interview’ in select theaters and on VOD this Christmas Day after all. Following the massive hacker attack on the company and subsequent terrorist threats from the group known as Guardians of Peace, Sony had no choice but to cancel the film’s release after major theater chains decided not to show the film. In a wonderful turn of events, following a petition from Art House Convergence, which was signed by many independent exhibitors, Sony is moving forward with the release. We have the full list of theaters that will screen the film this Thursday.

Do you remember how awesome weekends were when you were a kid? Possibly my favorite memory of my childhood was waking up early and making myself breakfast (usually a mixing bowl filled with my favorite cereal and a half gallon of milk) then parking myself in front of the TV to watch cartoons all morning.

We've all been there before: An otherwise pleasant trip to the movies turns sour when a fellow patron decides to whip out their phone and start texting while the movie is still playing. Such was the case during a recent screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, which prompted employees to kick one text-happy woman out of their theater.