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This week sees the release of the highly anticipated Skyfall, the 23rd screen outing of James Bond, released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the character’s film career. It’s a track record matched only by Godzilla, who’s just as popular with audiences but doesn’t land nearly as many babes as 007. As with many … Continue reading
The Texas Theater’s monthly Pata Negra Spanish film series returns with a screening of Belle Époque (1992), 7pm, November 4, at the theater. Details Wolvereeeeens!!! The Texas Theater also presents screenings of the Cold War action (ahem) drama Red Dawn (1984), 9:15pm, November 4, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics series with Steve McQueen, James … Continue reading
A hybrid of The High and the Mighty and Leaving Las Vegas, the drama Flight is the kind of movie that could have easily slid into moralizing half-assed melodrama in lesser hands, but as handled by talented veteran director Robert Zemeckis (his first feature since the back-to-back releases of Cast Away and What Lies Beneath … Continue reading
Largely forgotten, Antonia Bird’s underappreciated horror-dramedy is a flawed (she was brought in to replace a director who had chafed under Fox 2000’s heavy-handed management) but gruesomely fun time-killer that may be the best (and possibly only) movie about cannibalism ever directed by a vegetarian. Guy Pearce stars as Captain John Boyd, an Army officer … Continue reading
We here at Movie Ink live by the maxim that “Being paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”, and quite frankly we miss the Cold War. The world made more sense back then (in a surreal, Orwellian sort of way). The 50th anniversary of James Bond’s film career and the upcoming release of … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents special digital re-release screenings of John Carpenter’s classic slasher flick Halloween (1978), 8:30pm, October 28 and 31, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series resumes with a screening of the vintage horror classic White Zombie (1932) starring Bela Lugosi, plus a Trashy Trailer Show, 9pm, October 30, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and … Continue reading
The Dallas Film Society presents a repertory screening of Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, preceded by a Q&A with actor and Dallas native Owen Wilson, at 7:45pm, October 28, on the Ginsburg Family Great Lawn at Klyde Warren Park. DFS Artistic Director James Faust will introduce the program, and former WFAA film critic Gary Cogil will … Continue reading
Texan director Del Shores (Sordid Lives) and actor-producer Emerson Collins will headline a two-day series of panels (below) presented by the USA Film Festival on Friday and Saturday, at the Angelika Film Center. Shores and Collins will also open their latest feature, Blues for Willadean, featuring recent Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer (The Help). Friday, October … Continue reading
Layered, ambitious, steeped in symbolism and philosophy, Cloud Atlas is almost everything you’d expect from a movie directed (or in this instance, co-directed) by the Wachowskis. “Almost” is a good thing in this instance, as the movie (based on David Mitchell’s novel) sheds most of the didacticism and visual excess that made the Matrix sequels … Continue reading
Marvel has posted the first official Iron Man 3 footage for public consumption, featuring some tease images of Tony Starks ne Mark XLVII armor and Ben Kingsley as the film’s protagonist. This installment, with Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) replacing Jon Favreau as director, finds Iron Man/Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) challenged by a shadowy menace … Continue reading
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