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Have you taken an IQ test lately? Are you a member of Mensa? Would you say you’re brilliant? Figure it out, dumbo, because we’re putting on our thinking caps this weekend and preparing all sorts of smart entertainment for the truly brainy and the wannabe geeks alike. First off, of course, we have our REAL GENIUS QUOTE-ALONGs happening on Wednesday and Thursday, and I’m happy to say that not only will we be encouraging everyone in the theater to yell out their favorite lines, but we’ll also be handing EACH and EVERY person in the audience their very own LASER to shoot all over the theater whenever there’s a laser on screen (and we’ll also have our own laser guns to shoot at audience members who cheat and shoot their laser when there’s no laser on screen, don’t worry). We’ve also got our staff at all three of our theaters working overtime right now to produce enough popcorn for the grand finale when (spoiler alert) Dr. Hathaway’s house gets hit by the laser and destroyed by Jiffy Pop. That spectacle alone would be well worth the price of admission, but that won’t be the only surprise we’ve got ready.

For the well-informed or aspiring film geek this weekend, I can’t possibly recommend the two TRAILERTHON screenings we’ve got going on this Friday and Saturday at midnight highly enough. We’re digging through our enormous back catalogue of discarded and forgotten 35mm film trailers to bring out the best of the bygone brilliance and bringing them to the light of the silver screen for what may just be their last hurrah. But be warned – that event is really only for the truest hearted film geeks on the planet. Laymen will have their eyeballs burned out by a degree of awesomeness that they can’t possibly be prepared for.

And for the pop music and VH1 junkies out there, you’ll be happy to know we’ve added a special showing of the 90s ONE HIT WONDERS SING-ALONG: VOLUME 2 this Friday at 10pm at the Ritz. We don’t get to do primetime Friday shows very often, so this Sing-Along should be a doozy for sure. And if you’re just a full on Sing-Along fan, you might be interested to hear that Austin’s one and only boy band CEDAR FEVER will be making an appearance at this Sunday’s DICK-E-OKE show, but let's get to the showtimes.