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Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), 2pm December 15, and 2pm and 7pm December 18, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Angelika Film Center will also screen It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), various showtimes, December 15, 19, and 24, at the Angelika Dallas. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Die … Continue reading
Though it doesn’t justify exploding a 300-page children’s novel into a trilogy of nearly three-hour movies, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug goes a long way towards course correcting the series after the clunky, plodding start of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Now that the set-up dispensed with and the story is fully underway, there’s … Continue reading
Paul Walker’s untimely death in November devastated the friends and fans of the popular actor; it also put the Fast and Furious franchise in limbo. The seventh film in the series — which was intended as a starting point for a third trilogy of F&F movies — was in mid-filming when Walker died, and the … Continue reading
We here at Movie Ink were a little peeved around this time last year. We sat through the interminably long first installment of The Hobbit for one simple reason: We wanted to see a giant, flying, fire-breathing dragon. All we got was a tease — a wing here, an extreme close-up of an eyeball there. … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), 2pm December 8, and 2pm and 7pm December 11, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of John Hughes’ Pretty in Pink (1986), 7pm, December 8, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a special memorial screening of The Fast and the Furious (2001) with … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (1954), 2pm December 1, and 2pm and 7pm December 4, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series continues with Federico Fellini’s masterpiece 8 1/2 (1963), 7:30 and 10:15pm, December 3, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a Quote-Along screening of Terry Zwigoff’s notorious Christmas … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with a Tenth Anniversary screening of the Christmas comedy Elf (2003), 2pm November 24, and 2pm and 7pm November 27, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Alamo Drafthouse’s Tough Ladies in Cinema series concludes with a screening of Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve (1941), 2:05pm, November 24; at the theater. Details here. The Alamo … Continue reading
More engaging than the soft-soaped first installment, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a little too bogged down by tedium and a surprising degree of stiffness to be more than a modest improvement. In all fairness, however, it is the second act of a three-part story arc, two hours and thirty minutes of build-up with … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with a digitally restored print of Oliver Stone’s controversial JFK (1991), 2pm November 17 and 2pm and 7pm November 20, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a screening of Quentin Tarantino’s martial arts revenge epic Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), 7:30pm, November 19; followed by Kill Bill: Vol. … Continue reading
The Alamo Drafthouse’s next Alamo Kids Camp screening will be the ’80s sci-fi epic The Last Starfighter (1984), 10:30am, November 10 and 11:33am, November 11, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse also presents the film noir classic Gilda (1946), 2pm, November 10, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series continues with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten in the classic drama The … Continue reading
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