The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Harold Ramis and John Hughes’ epic road trip comedy National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), 5pm, July 7, at the theater. Details The Angelika Film Center’s month-long The Spectacular Now film series begins with Say Anything… (1989) at 7:30pm, July 9, at the Angelika Theater. Details The Texas Theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series continues with a … Continue reading
Familiar and tad predictable, yet funny and satisfying, The Way, Way Back is a breezy throwback to Meatballs era of coming-of-age comedies, and a refreshing bit of counter-programming in a summer full of bombastic big-budget event movies. The movie was produced, written, and directed by actors Nat Faxon (Bad Teacher) and Jim Rash (Community), the Academy … Continue reading
The Kimbell Art Museum’s Summer Adventure Series: From Amazon to Andes series begins with a screening of Walter Salles’ biopic The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), 2pm, June 30, at the museum. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Dario Argento’s cult classic giallo film Deep Red (1975), 8pm, June 30, at the theater. Details The Highland Park Film Festival‘s summer film series continues … Continue reading
When one of Shakespeare’s plays is done right, it reminds you why his works have survived four centuries and counting. When done wrong — or indifferently, as with Joss Whedon’s self-consciously twee take on Much Ado About Nothing — you feel every tedious second of it. On the surface it seems like a good fit … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues its Steven Spielberg month with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), 2 and 7pm June 16 and 2pm June 19, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Highland Park Film Festival summer film series continues with a screening of The Thin Man (1934), 7pm, June 17, at the Highland Park Village Theater. Details The Nasher … Continue reading
Calling This Is the End the best comedy of the year (so far) may seem like a back-handed compliment given the competition, but it truly delivers the laughs as well as energy that recent comedies have been lacking. You can tell its cast is fully engaged with the material and having the time of their … Continue reading
The First Sunday Film Club debuts with a screening of the Southern Gothic drama Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), 2pm June 2, at the Fort Worth Public Library. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Steven Spielberg’s whopper of a fish story Jaws (1975), 2 and 7pm June 2 and 2pm June 5, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with the epic biopic Cleopatra (1963), 2pm, May 26, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of John Landis’ classic comedy Animal House (1978), 9:15pm, May 31, at the theater. Details You’re gonna need a bigger boat, because the Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness feature for this week is Steven … Continue reading
The Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness features for this week are Tommy Wiseau’s cult-classic Z-grade drama The Room (2003) on May 24; and the classic rock musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) on May 25, at the theater. Details The Fairmont Hotel’s Summer Dive-In series resumes with a poolside screening of the animated feature Wreck-It Ralph (2012), 8:30pm, May 25, at the hotel pool on … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), various showtimes, May 12, at the theater. Details Central 214 at the Hotel Palomar continues its Sunday Sunset Movie Nights on the Patio series with a screening of My Fair Lady (1964), 9pm, May 12; and Gladiator (2000), 9pm, May 19, at the hotel. Details … Continue reading