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The latest entry into the long-running Star Trek franchise finds the series still boldly going, though not quite where no one has gone before. When the reboot movie Star Trek was released in 2009, it re-invigorated the franchise and left its future wide open; Star Trek Into Darkness sees it backtrack a bit a recover what … Continue reading
The Texas Theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series continues with a screening of the horror comedy Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988), 9pm, May 7, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with the science fiction classic Alien (1979), 2 and 7pm, May 8, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm … Continue reading
A rare threequel that finds new ground to till rather than a rehash of what came before, Iron Man 3 proves that not only is there life after The Avengers, there’s still plenty of mileage left in the tanks of superhero-themed movies. The early buzz has proclaimed it to be the best Marvel movie yet; … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Terence Malick’s acclaimed feature Days of Heaven (1978), 5pm, April 28, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Mike Nichols’ adaptation of The Graduate (1967), 2 and 7pm, May 1, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness feature for this week is Steven Spielberg’s adventure … 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
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
So far, the first few weeks of 2013 have characterized it as the year aging action heroes have been dusted and wheeled out for their umpteenth go at creative mayhem. So far, in terms of box office performance, their respective flicks have sank from sight faster than the Titanic. (The actual ship mind you, not … Continue reading
Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola has made a name for himself by aping the works of others and blending disparate odds and ends and spinning them into offbeat features. He made his debut with Kill Buljo (a spoof of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill); peaked with the brilliantly cheesy Dead Snow, a horror comedy with — wait … Continue reading
With the riveting, compelling, and unshakably haunting Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow proves her historic Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker was no fluke. She takes the heightened realism of that movie one step further here, tapping into the cinema verité feel of The Battle of Algiers for a dramatic retelling of the decade-long hunt for … Continue reading
With the campy, violent, tongue-in-cheek pulp western Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino comes at us full-tilt, both guns appropriately blazing. Hollywood’s most idiosyncratic working director seems intent on one-upping himself, doing to America’s shameful history with slavery what he did for Nazis in Inglorious Basterds, and then some. Be prepared to squirm in your seat. Tarantino name-checks … Continue reading
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