Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back w/ live score from Austin Symphony Orchestra

Okay, here are the three reasons you GOTTA attend this screening: 1) All bias aside, we must acknowledge that The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie. Few other entries in this now-bloated franchise match the second entry’s visual style or unstoppable action – like, come see me when the Disney Death Star makes anything half as cool-looking as Cloud City. 2) So this screening, right, has costumed characters galore for you to take a pic with – which you can do while holding a Jedi Mind Trick cocktail, purchased from a Long Center “cantina.” Oh and duh: 3) The freaking Austin Symphony Orchestra – you know, the one conducted by local legend Peter Bay – is doing the John Williams score LIVE. Like right in front of your face, directly in your ears, the booming glory of “The Imperial March” fills the room. You’d have to be smokin’ death-sticks to miss this one, pal. – James Scott