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It won’t hit theaters until next year, and filming hasn’t even started yet, but yesterday MGM and Sony began a viral marketing campaign for its Robocop reboot in order to earn some cred for what many fans consider a pointless remake. The OmniCorp site features a one-minute faux ad video that serves as a bare-bones teaser … Continue reading
The Asian Film Festival of Dallas begins its week-long festival season this Thursday evening with an opening night screening of Takeshi Miike’s Ace Attorney (see below). The programming schedule includes 32 features plus select short film programming. Here’s a short list of Movie Ink‘s recommended viewing (all screenings are at The Magnolia): Ace Attorney (8:30pm, July 12; 9:30pm July … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s monthly 50 Years of Bond! films series continues with a screening of Goldfinger (1964), 7:30 and 10pm, July 10, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater resumes its Tuesday Night Trash series with a free screening of the science fiction comedy-exploitation classic The Lost Empire (1985), 9:15pm, July 10, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount … Continue reading
Savages doesn’t rank among filmmaker Oliver Stone’s best work, but thankfully it does find him doing what he does best: fearlessly telling a gritty, ugly story of amoral, treacherous people driven by their worst instincts. It’s U-Turn without the overwhelming weirdness; whether or not that’s a plus is strictly a matter of taste. Based on … Continue reading
As with most of animator Ralph Bakshi’s projects (Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Fire and Ice, Cool World), American Pop (1981) is a flawed but fascinating feature that aims for more than it could reach, and is as messy as it is brilliant. The sprawling and too ambitious story traces about seven decades of American pop music via … Continue reading
On the surface it seems too soon for a reboot of the Spider-Man movie franchise, but it was really the only way to go. With the first two films, Sam Raimi brought the character to the big screen with a bang and in the process helped set the standard for comic book movies; with the … Continue reading
Anyone who’s had their fill of the increasingly shallow buffet of American culture will find it easy to relate comedian Bobcat Goldthwait’s (Shakes the Clown, World’s Greatest Dad) no-holds-barred, sacred cow-barbecuing satire that targets everything from our increasingly shallow pop culture to bad manners. It takes the shotgun approach — literally so in some scenes — … Continue reading
Thanks to the combination of a clever screenplay by Bert V. Royal and charismatic performance by Emma Stone, Easy A is an engaging, winning entry into what has become tired genre, the teen comedy. Stone plays Olive Penderghast, the type of high school student who goes largely unnoticed by her peers. Rather than spend a … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents a special 4th of July outdoor screening of the romantic comedy One Crazy Summer (1986), 9pm, July 4, in Kiest Park. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics summer film series with a screening of a digitally restored print of the musical-themed compilation That’s Entertainment (1974), 2 and … Continue reading
Cool rationale over tired melodrama and methodical storytelling as opposed to cheap set pieces are the key factors in Steven Soderbergh’s docudrama-thriller Contagion, a disturbingly realistic movie about a relentless viral outbreak that may do for sales of hand sanitizer and surgical masks what anthrax did for duct tape and plastic sheeting in the early … Continue reading
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