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The USA Film Festival presents the 29th Annual KidFilm Festival on January 26 and 27 at the Angelika Theater. The oldest and largest children’s film festival in the United States, its programming will include a variety of live-action an animated feature films, as well as a tribute to author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds, who will sign … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents the best Christmas flick ever made, A Christmas Story (1983), various showtimes, December 23-25, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre presents Sergio Corbucci’s classic spaghetti western Django (1966), 6:30pm December 23 and 7pm December 27, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre will screen a restored 35mm print of the director’s cut Milos Forman’s epic biopic … Continue reading
Visually stunning and emotionally charged, the stop-motion feature ParaNorman is a surprisingly heavy bit of family entertainment — and that’s saying a great deal about a ‘toon starring a kid who sees dead people. It’s more Coraline than Sixth Sense, however, but with a great deal to say about the virtues of tolerance. Norman (voiced … Continue reading
The Texas Theater and CBS Radio present a free outdoor screening of the Dr. Seuss adaptation The Lorax (2012), at dusk on August 12, at Memorial Crawford Park. Details The Texas Theater continues its monthly Pata Negra Spanish film series with a screening of Fernando León de Aranoa’s brilliant drama Mondays in the Sun (2002), 7:30pm (tapas at 6:30pm), August 12, at the … Continue reading
The Texas Theater and CBS Radio present a free outdoor screening of Iron Man (2008), at dusk on August 5, at Memorial Crawford Park. Details The Texas Theater continues its Tuesday Night Trash film series with a screening of the Filipino action comedy D’Wild Wild Weng (1982), 9:15pm, August 7, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s The Big … Continue reading
We here at Movie Ink are contentedly childless mole people, but our keen powers of observation have taught us that keeping adolescents thoroughly amused during a lot hot Texas summer is of paramount importance to any parent who wishes to stay sane until the school year starts. Some relief has come via the Modern Art Museum … Continue reading
The Texas Theater and CBS Radio present a free outdoor Spanish-language screening of the Shrek 2 (2004), at dusk on July 29, at Memorial Crawford Park. Details The Magnolia’s The Big Movie films series concludes its two-part Disaster! series with a screening of the epitome of the disaster movie, The Towering Inferno (1974), 7:30pm, July 31, at the … 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
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
The inaugural Oak Cliff Film Festival begins its four-day festival season this Thursday evening. The programming schedule includes documentaries, feature films, short films, music videos, and events. Here’s a short list of Movie Ink‘s recommended viewing: The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (7:30pm, June 14, Texas Theatre) Writer-director Paul Bunnell’s strange brew of 1950s-style B-grade sci-fi horror, juvenile … Continue reading
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