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The Kimbell Art Museum and Lone Star Film Society present a rare public screening of the recently restored complete original version of Fritz Lang’s influential silent-era sci-fi epic Metropolis (1927), 2pm, October 21, at the museum. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film miniseries presents a screening of William Friedkin’s thoroughly frightening The Exorcist (1973), 7:30pm, October 23, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre’s … Continue reading
A classic misfire if there ever was one, Rob Cohen’s Alex Cross is intended to reboot the series based on the character made popular by James Patterson’s novels, previously played in two movies starring Morgan Freeman back in the ’90s. That comedy actor Tyler Perry (creator and star of the mega-popular Madea franchise) was cast in … Continue reading
With her suitably bleak and decidedly oblique adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold (“Wasp”, Red Road) delivers a Wuthering Heights that is as cold and distant as is it lush and atmospheric. Anyone with a prejudice against Gothic melodrama isn’t likely to have their minds changed here. For all that’s … Continue reading
One of the most popular and influential genre writers of the pulp era, H. P. Lovecraft was a master of weird fiction, a heady blend of dark fantasy and terror with the occasional science fiction twist. His fans have long since opined the fact that the bulk of his works are long overdue for film … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s Big Movie film miniseries presents a screening of David Lean’s war epic The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), 7:30, October 16, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics series with the classic Disney musical Mary Poppins (1964), 2 and 7pm, October 17, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Dallas Film Society continues its new … Continue reading
Women in Film.Dallas presents their 11th Annual Chick Flicks Film Festival, a three-night selection of works by female filmmakers “from Texas and beyond”, October 16-18 at the Angelika Film Center. The festival serves as a fundraiser for scholarships for women and female students in the film industry. Each year the festival showcases short films by Texas … Continue reading
A thinking man’s espionage thriller that gives weight to the notion that truth is indeed stranger than fiction, Argo quickly dispels any lingering doubts as to whether or not Ben Affleck’s recent acclaim as a director is just a fluke. Affleck directs with even more confidence and capability than he displayed in Gone Baby Gone … Continue reading
Funny, vulgar, blood-soaked, and stocked with wall-to-wall wackos, Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths showcases the Anglo-Irish playwright/filmmaker’s signature brand of absurdist pitch-black comedy, made infamous by his plays The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Lonesome West. McDonagh leans on the metafiction more heavily this time than he did with his debut feature, In Bruges (2008), which often … Continue reading
Witty, scary, and darkly funny, Fright Night is one of those rare remakes that not only stands on its own but also improves on the original. It retains much of what made its ancestor a cult classic, while retooling it to have some sharper edges. Anton Yelchin stars as Charley Brewster, a high school senior … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents a 35mm screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller Vertigo (1958), 5:15pm, October 7, at the theater. Details The Dallas International Film Festival and the Texas Independent Film Network present a screening of the documentary Man on a Mission (2010), about self-made astronaut Richard Garriott, at 7:30pm, October 9, at the Angelika Film Center. Filmmaker in attendance. Details The Magnolia … Continue reading
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