{"id":375672,"date":"2026-07-16T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375672\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:06:08","slug":"hyperreal-film-club-celebrates-a-decade-of-movie-magic-in-austin-east-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375672\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperreal Film Club celebrates a decade of movie magic in Austin | East Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperrealfilm.club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperreal Film Club<\/a> was founded by Jenni Kaye, David McMichael and Tanner Hadfield in 2016, starting with pop up events around Austin, according to its website. The club has been at its permanent location in East Austin since 2024, offering movies Monday-Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hyperreal Film Club started out in 2016 as a basement screening for wide-eyed, wild-eyed dreamers and movie pals &#8230; and that&#8217;s what it still is as we kick off decade number two,\u201d co-founder David McMichael said.<\/p>\n<p>What they offer<\/p>\n<p>The club screens multiple movies a week in a range of genres. Its recent lineup has included \u201cRomy and Michele&#8217;s High School Reunion\u201d and \u201cAkira.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hyperreal Film Club offers sliding scale ticket prices, popcorn and beverages.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration<\/p>\n<p>Hyperreal Film Club is celebrating its milestone anniversary with a &#8220;Matrix&#8221; Rave on July 24, featuring a costume contest, music, prizes and drink specials. Tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperrealfilm.club\/events\/7-24\/the-matrix-rave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their own words<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love watching good movies with good people, we love an immersive experience and a good gag, we love cult and genre and arthouse and local indie and queer films, and we love this incredible community in Austin that&#8217;s powered this fantastical engine for a glorious 10 years,&#8221; McMichael said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hyperreal Film Club was founded by Jenni Kaye, David McMichael and Tanner Hadfield in 2016, starting with pop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132835,3493,132,134,133,2924,21912,132837,21362,7168,132834,132836],"class_list":["post-375672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-10-year-anniversary","tag-anniversary","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-east-austin","tag-hyperreal-film-club","tag-matrix-rave","tag-movie","tag-movie-screenings","tag-movie-theatre","tag-rave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}