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The highly anticipated big screen version of the young adult novel The Hunger Games opens in theaters this weekend (see our review here). The material owes at least a kernel of its central premise – children forced to stalk and fight each other to the death in a wilderness arena — to the 1924 short … Continue reading
It’s a good thing Attack the Block opened in the UK back in the merry, merry month of May 2011; its scenes of a squalid section of South London reduced to a flaming war zone might not have played too well in British megaplexes during the riots that erupted last Spring. On this side of … Continue reading
One of the most violent westerns ever made (up to that point), Django was such a huge hit that it spawned more than 30 unofficial sequels and countless knock-offs. Written and directed by Sergio Corbucci, it cemented the spaghetti western craze kickstarted by Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars.. Franco Nero stars in the title role, that of a … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues with Sogo Ishii’s punk rock sci-fi musical Burst City (1982), 9pm (karaoke at 8pm), March 18, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Great Directors showcase with a … Continue reading
After wetting our appetites with a tantalizing teaser trailer as well as an enigmatic three-minute clip featuring Guy Pearce, 20th Century-Fox finally delivers some cinematic red meat with a jaw-dropping full-length trailer for Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated pseudo-prequel to his influential sci-horror classic, Alien. Check it out here:
An engaging throwback to the cynical Cold War espionage movies and paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy plays like a time capsule of an era when civilization seemed pertually on the brink of annihilation, good vs. evil was painted in shades of gray, and high-tech surveillance in the pre-digital age meant sneaking … Continue reading
The much-anticipated American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel (or remake of the Swedish film version, depending on how you look at it) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo finds director David Fincher in fine form, returning to the dark, twisted pulp that he does so well but hasn’t touched since Zodiac in 2007 and Seven in 1997. Like those films, Dragon Tattoo is a seedy … Continue reading
The Video Association of Dallas is now accepting team registrations for the 11th Annual 24-Hour Video Race. The race is limited to 100 teams competing in five different divisions. The race begins at 11:59 p.m. Friday, May 4, at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station, and end there 24 hours later at midnight on Saturday, … Continue reading
The Dallas International Film Festival released the schedule for its 2012 festival season on Thursday. The festival will run from April 12-22 and feature 111 feature-length and short films from 27 countries over an 11-day period. Festival passes and tickets are currently on sale. Guests in attendance have yet to be announced. Movie Ink will post … Continue reading
Blind Spot Pictures has released the first four minutes of the science fiction comedy Iron Sky on YouTube in a bid to work up early buzz — as if a comedy about the invasion of Earth by an army of Nazis from the dark side of the moon was apt to fall through the cracks. Directed by … Continue reading
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