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Drive Angry 3D is one of those giddily trashy, gleefully self-obsessed movies that defies critique — in the conventional sense, at least. Not that that’s a bad thing; in fact, it’s so absurdly trashy and ridiculously over-the-top (on purpose, mind you) that if you don’t outright hate it, you’ll flat-out love it. Nicolas Cage, whose … Continue reading
Women In Film.Dallas presents a preview screening of the comedy The Perfect Family, 7pm, May 15, at the Studio Movie Grill — Dallas/Royal. Tickets are $10 ($5 for WIF.D members) via the organization’s website, with proceeds benefiting their grant and scholarship programs. Written by Dallas-based screenwriter and WIF.D board member Paula Goldberg and directed by … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series begins its Uptown/Downtown series with a screening of Woody Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan (1979), 7:30pm, May 1, at the theater. Details The Dallas Wine & Food Festival hosts a Cinematic Feast, featuring a four-course dinner by Chef Salvatore Gisellu followed by a screening of Norman Jewison’s Moonstruck (1987) with an introduction by former Dallas Morning News … Continue reading
The Texas Theater’s Kimono Club series resumes with a screening of Anh Dung Tran’s adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel Norwegian Wood (2010), 9:30pm, April 25, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater also presents Billy Wilder’s brilliant romantic comedy The Apartment (1960), 7pm, April 26 and 27, at the theater. Details The Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness features for this week … Continue reading
Both mirthful and melancholic, filmmaker Gianni Di Gregorio’s The Salt of Life takes a smart, moving look at that moment in a person’s life when they realize they’ve passed their expiration date. Di Gregorio maintains the low-key, slice-of-life style that characterized this movie’s predecessor, Mid-August Lunch (2008), and delivers a worthy follow-up. The actor director reprises his … Continue reading
Before he turned into a serious filmmaker, Peter Jackson honed his chops by churning out some very funny — and very depraved — genre bending B-grade comedies, making a memorable debut with the aptly named sci-fi satire Bad Taste and re-inventing the zombie flick with Dead Alive decades before it was cool to do so. … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents 25th anniversary screenings of the Coen Brothers’ classic comedy Raising Arizona (1987), 5:15pm, April 15, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater presents Billy Wilder’s brilliant romantic comedy The Apartment (1960), 7:15pm, April 18 and 19, at the theater. Details Paramount Pictures and Cinemark Theaters present a one-day-only 40th anniversary XD screening of Francis … Continue reading
Hyped as the new Evil Dead; it’s more accurate to call The Cabin in the Woods the new Scream. A gleefully anarchic horror comedy by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard (co-writers, producer, and director — in that order), it sets up a horror movie scenario we’ve seen a thousand times before, pokes numerous holes in it, and then gives … Continue reading
The 2012 Dallas International Film Festival begins its 11-day festival season on Wednesday, April 12, with a programming schedule that includes 111 films representing 27 countries. Here’s a short list of Movie Ink‘s recommended viewing: Alps (4:15pm, April 13 and 7:30pm, April 20, Angelika Film Center) Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to the controversial, Academy … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents a special screening of a 35mm print of Blake Edward’s caper comedy The Pink Panther (1963), 4:20pm, April 8, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series concludes its two-part Biblical Spectaculars series with a screening of Cecil B. DeMille’s star-studded, quintessential Bible epic The Ten Commandments (1956), 7pm, April … Continue reading
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