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The Dallas Museum of Art’s Love, War, and Myth in Ancient Greece summer film series continues with a free screening of Clash of the Titans (1981), 7pm, August 15, in the museum’s Horchow Auditorium. Details Chris Vognar’s Screening Room monthly series resumes with a free screening of Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking thriller M (1931) at 7:30pm, August 15, at the … Continue reading
Boasting a strong comedic cast in a dull, unfunny, uninspired, and formulaic comedy, We’re the Millers is one of this summer’s biggest missed opportunities. It somehow The central idea should have been a rich vein of comedy gold: A 40ish pot-dealer past his slacker prime named David (Jason Sudeikis) gets rolled by hoodlums and winds … Continue reading
South African writer-director Neill Blomkamp became a big blip on the radar with his feature-length debut District 9. A hefty slice of sci-fi message movie that put a compelling and effective spin on apartheid, it was a message movie that went down easy and managed the tricky alchemy of melding such a weighty subject to … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the science fiction classic Planet of the Apes (1968), 5pm, August 4, at the theater. Details The Highland Park Film Festival‘s summer film series continues with a screening of John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), 7pm, August 5, at the Highland Park Village Theater. Details The Texas Theatre’s Tuesday Night Trash … Continue reading
The Kimbell Art Museum’s Summer Adventure Series: From Amazon to Andes series continues with a screening of Werner Herzog’s masterpiece Aquirre, the Wrath of God (1972), 2pm, July 28, at the museum. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Stand By Me (1986), 5pm, July 28, at the theater. Details The Angelika Film Center’s month-long The Spectacular Now film series cocnludes … Continue reading
Let’s face it: Old man Logan took a serious cinematic beating in his first solo outing, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), most of it from the writer and director rather than the villains. It was a hard enough flop to strike down a planned series of Origins films (which thankfully resulted in X-Men: First Class and … Continue reading
The Angelika Film Center’s month-long The Spectacular Now film series continues with Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical comedy Almost Famous (1999) at 7:30pm, July 23, at the Angelika Theater. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Stand By Me (1986), various showtimes, July 25-28, at the theater. Details The Angelika Film Center’s After Hours feature for the week is Rocky (1976) at 11:45pm, July 26 and … Continue reading
Much like its 2010 predecessor, based on Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer’s comic book about elderly secret agents forced out of retirement after they’re targeted for elimination, Red 2 is free from lofty expectations. Red was a surprise sleeper hit that earned points from a smart script, fantastic casting, and the novelty of watching Helen … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre also presents 25th anniversary screenings of a 35mm print of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), 5:30, July 14, at the theater. Details The Highland Park Film Festival‘s summer film series continues with a screening of Sunset Blvd. (1950), 7pm, July 15, at the Highland Park Village Theater. Details The Nasher Sculpture Center presents an outdoor screening of the … Continue reading
Geek-auteur Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is no more or less bombastic than this summer’s other event-film spectacles, but damn if it isn’t a lot smarter, more fun, and less heavy-handed than most of what’s come down the pipe. Some of its intricacies may be lost on mainstream moviegoers, but for those of raised on … Continue reading
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