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The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the epic sequel Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987), 8:15pm, April 7, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with an offer you can’t refuse: a digitally restored print of The Godfather (1972), 2 and 7pm, April 10, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness feature … Continue reading
The remake of Sam Raimi’s cult classic The Evil Dead is, well, actually kinda surprisingly not bad. There — we said it, and the statement is either heresy or a relief, depending on one’s feelings on the subject. After all, fans have been split over the merits of the project ever since it was announced; … Continue reading
For writer-director Derek Cianfrance, filming his multi-generational crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines in Schenectady, New York, was a no-brainer (after all, the movie’s title is the translation of the Mohawk word that the city takes its name from). Cianfrance’s wife is from the town, and their regular trips to visit the in-laws amounted … Continue reading
A sprawling tale of fathers and sons told across generations, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines aims high, compromises rarely, and falters just a little. Cianfrance and co-scripter Ben Coccio (Zero Day) structure their novel-like tale as a triptych of sorts, beginning with an impressive tracking shot that opens the film and introduces Luke … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents an Easter screening of 35mm print of the Biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956), 4pm, March 31, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the original The Evil Dead (1981), 9pm, March 31, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series continues with a screening of the action flick Hard … Continue reading
At best, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is preferable to its predecessor, in the sense that a raging hangover is preferable to a case of the bubonic plague. Originally scheduled for release last June, it was reportedly pushed back nine months so that it could be converted to 3-D and so that extra footage of Channing Tatum … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the film adaptation of the children’s novel The Neverending Story (1985), 5pm, March 24, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Sam Mendes’ Oscar-winning American Beauty (1999), 2 and 7pm, March 27, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of … Continue reading
Die Hard in the White House with a little 24 and even some Under Siege thrown in for good measure, Olympus Has Fallen is possible the dumbest of the big, dumb, and loud action movies released so far this year. (G.I. Joe: Retaliation opens next week, however.) Action films by their very nature require us … Continue reading
The art house equivalent of a Girls Gone Wild video, bad-boy auteur Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers offers a mock-morality tale disguised edgy nihilism, albeit one hobbled with an anemic narrative and mind-numbing repetition. That it’s generated as much pre-release buzz as it has is due to its two gimmicks: James Franco’s performance as a Svengali gangsta/wannabe … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the film adaptation of the children’s novel The Neverending Story (1985), various showtimes, March 22-24, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with David Lean’s classic Lawrence of Arabia (1962), 2 and 7pm, March 20, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness features for this … Continue reading
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