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Townsmen is a casual city-building strategy game made by HandyGames. The town's - people assembled at their hall and having chosen John Grantceter as. Dispute arose between the townsmen and the university. Fortunately, it's available online via Amazon, although the picture/sound quality is not stellar.CAMBRIDGE GUIDE. Cute inhabitants with their own daily routines.I've been encouraging people to get their hands on the movie ever since, but it's not on DVD or Blu-ray and it hasn't been screened in Austin since AFF.

(Hopper was in his thirties at the time, but he looks like a baby.) He finds a potential friend in Reese ( Warren Oates), but his wife ( Lee Purcell) seems a little too friendly.Kid Blue may be set in the early 20th century (it's a bit vague on that point) but the attitudes are pure 1973, with the more pious townspeople spouting cliches about patriotism, the unemployed/poor bringing it on themselves, young men needing to learn respect for their elders, and native Americans being 'savages.' The local preacher has an interesting drug habit, and the town's Native Americans are continually smoking something mind-altering.Five years and 51 weeks - that's when I was added to the Slackerwood website, although my official first article about a beloved made-in-Texas film, True Stories, was actually published on June 24, 2009. All Bick wants to do is lead a normal, law-abiding life, but Sheriff 'Mean John' Simpson ( Ben Johnson) is automatically suspicious, and other self-important townsmen dismiss and belittle him as a clumsy, naive hoodlum. Sick of the outlaw life, he decides to go straight and get a legitimate job, and he ends up in the small Texas town of Dime Box.And it is in Dime Box (the movie's original title, incidentally) that this long-haired ex-bandit encounters The Man, in all his incarnations. As a 1970s oddity, the counterculture Western falls somewhere between the barely comprehensible Eggshells (Tobe Hooper's first feature, read Don's review) and a movie I like far more than it deserves, Harry and Walter Go to New York.The counterculture Western opens with a botched train robbery by a gang that includes Bick (Hopper), aka the notorious Kid Blue. But it's a fascinating movie, if not as funny as I remembered it. Develop your tiny village to a grand medieval empire with a thriving economy and happy villagers Find spots for mining ore, harvest the crops of your farms and collect coins as taxes from your folk.Townsmen is a city building simulation for iOS and Android, a reboot of a popular franchise that plays like a medieval version of old-school SimCity games, but with even more complexity and strategy involved.Over the past 17 years (damn, it cannot have been that long), I overhyped myself on Kid Blue.

Over the years of writing for Slackerwood I've encountered Mann on his annual visits to Austin for SXSW, and enjoy hearing about his latest film projects. Most if not all of my initial conversations with Jette about film took place on the outdoor patio at Alamo South Lamar either during subsequent SXSW and Fantastic Fest film festivals.On that special night in 2004 that I blogged about, I was introduced to writer and director Jonathan Demme by Black, and assisted Crispin Glover and Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann ( Go Further, Know Your Mushrooms) in and out of the screening at the personal - and quite polite - request of Jarmusch. That same year I recall Louis Black assisting at the door at a special midnight screening of Hellboy at the Paramount, with star Ron Perlman talking to fans outside the theater until the wee hours of the morning.I truly believe that without the efforts and support of local film industry vanguards like Louis Black of Austin Chronicle and SXSW, and Tim and Karrie League of Alamo Drafthouse, I would not have met Slackerwood's founder and editor Jette Kernion.

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One of the columns that I've been most proud of is ' Film on Tap,' launched during Austin Craft Beer Week in October 2011.Born out of Slackerwood's ' How to Drink Like an Austinite' guides, I've enjoyed sharing memorable experiences of well-crafted beer and film - as well as skillfully mixed cocktails and film curation.While waiting out the torrential rains last Saturday evening, I enjoyed a delectable cherry-infused bourbon Old-Fashioned at The Highball and observed the crack bar staff as they served theatergoers, bar patrons and karaoke enthusiasts. And yet I've made it to Park City for the last three years to cover both Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals simultaneously to the best of my capability.Film on Tap is a column about the many ways that beer (or sometimes booze) and cinema intersect in Austin.Pursuing multiple and consecutive careers in film, water and craft beer can be quite challenging to juggle more often than not, so I'm extremely appreciative for the patience, understanding and support that Slackerwood founder Jette Kernion has given me over the last six years. Six years ago I never would have thought that I would cover a film festival outside of Austin such as Dallas International Film Festival, let alone Sundance Film Festival.

Back in the 1970s, the genre was a staple of the summer movie season with audiences devouring multi-strand plots, which saw stars both old and new struggling for survival against any and every catastrophe an ambitious movie producer could think of.Despite giving audiences some bona fide classics such as The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno(1974), the genre has been rather dead as of late with lackluster offerings such as Poseidon (a weak 2006 imitation of the far better original) and the overly confident 2012 (2009). Zampa's expansion from prostitution and gambling into manufacturing and selling heroin places him at the top of the Marseilles crime scene, making him a target as well for the police and competitors.Its been a while since we've had a worthwhile disaster movie at the cineplex. As a former gambling addict, Michel channels his obsessive nature into getting to the bottom of the complex network of drug lords, discovering that corruption exists at the top and around him.The cornerstone to all the corruption is GaГ«tan 'Tany' Zampa ( Gilles Lellouche), a racketeer who offers 'protection' through the violent persuasive nature of his gang: Bimbo, Franky Manzoni ( Moussa Maaskri), and Le Fou ( Benoit Magimel). Based on the true story of French law enforcement's battle with the heroin-dependent drug traffic among France, New York and the rest of the world, this award-worthy film focuses more on the characterization of key players in the battle rather than rely on hyperviolence.Despite his reluctance, French magistrate Pierre Michel ( Jean Dujardin) is transferred from the juvenile to the organized crime division in the middle of mob wars in Marseilles, France.

While the President ( Morgan Freeman) tries to maintain order in the land, a team of experts led by a famed astronaut ( Robert Duvall) attempts to stop the comet and an ambitious journalist ( Tea Leoni) resolves to come to terms with her past.'Ready, Set, Fund' is a column about crowdfunding and related fundraising endeavors for Austin and Texas independent film projects.It's hard to believe that it has been over 3.5 years since the first 'Ready, Set, Fund' column appeared here on Slackerwood. A high-school astronomy student ( Elijah Wood) discovers a random comet that's headed directly for Earth, promising destruction of cataclysmic proportions. Starring Dwayne Johnson, San Andreas details a rescue pilotвЂ™s frantic search for his family following the most powerful and devastating earthquake ever to hit the West Coast.One of the few noteworthy offerings following the post-70s boom of disaster movies was the thoughtful and still entertaining Deep Impact (1998).

Dillinger has been quite active at Austin City Council meetings as well as on social media to alert Austinites of the pending destruction of several mid-century modern custom homes built by Arthur Dallas 'A.D.' Stenger throughout his 55-year career. Even when a campaign falls short of its funding goals, many filmmakers find other creative avenues to accomplish their film production goals.One such creative talent is Austinite and local performer Troy Dillinger, who has been championing the preservation of historical homes in the hills of west Austin and around Barton Springs and Town Lake. From set visits to personal interviews with cast and crew, we are all grateful for getting a behind-the-scenes perspective and following film projects from 'cradle to grave' over these last few years.