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Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues its Steven Spielberg month with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), 2 and 7pm June 9 and 2pm June 12, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Shops at Park Lane’s Movies Under the Moon film series returns with a screening of the animated feature The Lorax (2012), 8:30pm, June 9, at the corner … Continue reading
Man of Steel opens June 14, starring Henry Cavill as Superman. We here at Movie Ink are excited by the prospect of seeing Superman on the big screen again — and we’re also a bit apprehensive. The careers of many of the actors who played the character in film and television have usually tanked afterwards, … Continue reading
The First Sunday Film Club debuts with a screening of the Southern Gothic drama Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), 2pm June 2, at the Fort Worth Public Library. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Steven Spielberg’s whopper of a fish story Jaws (1975), 2 and 7pm June 2 and 2pm June 5, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The … Continue reading
For the past few years, critiquing a movie by M. Night Shyamalan has been something akin to shooting fish in a barrel with a rocket launcher. The auteur wowed viewers with his carefully crafted The Sixth Sense in 1999, but he’s failed to live up to his potential since then. In fact, the quality of … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with the epic biopic Cleopatra (1963), 2pm, May 26, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of John Landis’ classic comedy Animal House (1978), 9:15pm, May 31, at the theater. Details You’re gonna need a bigger boat, because the Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness feature for this week is Steven … Continue reading
A funny thing happened at the megaplexes last summer. That was when Fast Five debuted, and unexpectedly crystallized the formula of what had to that point been a very formulaic franchise. The restraints came off, any last remaining vestiges of logic were shed, and a ragtag group of action heroes were assembled with Avengers-esque grandeur for … Continue reading
The Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness features for this week are Tommy Wiseau’s cult-classic Z-grade drama The Room (2003) on May 24; and the classic rock musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) on May 25, at the theater. Details The Fairmont Hotel’s Summer Dive-In series resumes with a poolside screening of the animated feature Wreck-It Ralph (2012), 8:30pm, May 25, at the hotel pool on … Continue reading
The latest entry into the long-running Star Trek franchise finds the series still boldly going, though not quite where no one has gone before. When the reboot movie Star Trek was released in 2009, it re-invigorated the franchise and left its future wide open; Star Trek Into Darkness sees it backtrack a bit a recover what … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), various showtimes, May 12, at the theater. Details Central 214 at the Hotel Palomar continues its Sunday Sunset Movie Nights on the Patio series with a screening of My Fair Lady (1964), 9pm, May 12; and Gladiator (2000), 9pm, May 19, at the hotel. Details … Continue reading
The release of Star Trek (2009) not only reinvigorated Gene Roddenberry’s successful science fiction franchise, it also helped deliver a one-two punch to what had been an unwritten cinematic law: even-numbered Trek movies tend to be blockbuster hits, but odd-numbered ones are unapologetic box office bombs. The first blow to what had always been a … Continue reading
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