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Sitting through Rock of Ages is akin to being trapped at karaoke night at the local dive, where you’re pummeled by ill-advised renditions of ’80s hair metal and can’t make it through the evening without some asshole breaking into “Don’t Stop Believin’”. As Journey so eloquently put it in that song: the movie never ends, it goes … 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
The Dallas Film Society continues its Summer Screenings series with a free screening of Clemente Fracassi’s adaptation of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida (1953) at 7:30pm, June 11, at the Studio Movie Grill. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios kick-off their Reel Classics summer film series continues with a screening of Orson Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941), 2 and 7pm, June 13, at … Continue reading
Josie and the Pussycats hit the big screen with a thud in 2001 and quickly sank without a trace. This wasn’t a surprise, since those involved made the courageous — and ultimately questionable — decision to make a movie that mocked the very people most likely to see it, specifically shallow and easily programmed teenyboppers. Still, … Continue reading
An ode to what it’s like to be 12 years old an in love, Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom isn’t the writer-director’s smoothest feature, but it feels like his purest. It’s difficult not to label Anderson’s filmography as “twee” — sure, the term fits, but it also overlooks the emotional depths he plumbs via his parades of eccentric square … Continue reading
Arguably the least-anticipated sequel of the year, Men in Black III undoes a lot of the damage caused by the listless, lackluster 2002 follow-up that sucked the life out of what could have been a quirky, lively franchise and left dormant for a decade. MiB3 may have a arrived too late to fully revive the series (less … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s two-part Sir Ridley films series presents a rare public screening of Ridley’s fantasy epic Legend (1985), 7:30 and 10pm, May 22, at the theater. Details The Lone Star Film Society’s and Red Productions’ Backlot Film Series continues with an outdoor screening of the Coen Brother’s comedy Raising Arizona (1987), at sunset, May 24, in Foch Alley near Red Productions (1075 Foch St., Fort … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series concludes its Uptown/Downtown series with a screening of the musical West Side Story (1961), 7:30pm, May 15, at the theater. Details Paramount Pictures and Cinemark Theaters present a special 85th anniversary XD screening of the classic Academy Award-winning silent film Wings (1927), 2 and 7pm, May 16, at the Cinemark Movies … Continue reading
Johnny Depp starring in a Tim Burton remake of the cult-favorite ’60s-’70s gothic soap opera may seem like a no-brainer, but fans of any or all of the above will be hard-pressed to find much satisfaction in Dark Shadows. It’s a vampire comedy without much bite, and its quirkiness wears thin quickly. Bearing only a passing resemblance … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Uptown/Downtown series with a screening of John Schlesinger’s Oscar-winning drama Midnight Cowboy (1969), 7:30pm, May 8, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series continues with free screening of the Mexploitation classic Intrepidos Punks (1980), 9pm, May 8, at the theater. Details The Austin Film Festival and … Continue reading
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