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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
Bad-boy director William Friedkin (The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A.) has definitely not mellowed in his old age. If anything, he’s gotten edgier and more in-your-face — and that’s saying a lot about the guy whose adaptation of The Exorcist still keeps people awake at night. His latest feature, a screen version of … Continue reading
The Dallas Film Society continues its Summer Screenings series with a free screening of Alan Miller’s acclaimed documentary The Turandot Project (2000) at 7:30pm, July 16, at the Studio Movie Grill. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics summerfilm series continues with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller North by Northwest (1959), … 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
Savages doesn’t rank among filmmaker Oliver Stone’s best work, but thankfully it does find him doing what he does best: fearlessly telling a gritty, ugly story of amoral, treacherous people driven by their worst instincts. It’s U-Turn without the overwhelming weirdness; whether or not that’s a plus is strictly a matter of taste. Based on … Continue reading
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in ’21 Jump Street’ As a feature film retread of a vapid ’80s cop show re-imagined as an R-rated slapstick action-comedy starring that one kid from Superbad and that dude from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the comedy 21 Jump Street should logically suck. It somehow works, and works well. Directors … Continue reading
Quite likely the first caper comedy to pit a tone-deaf policeman against a gang of anarchist musicians, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson’s Sound of Noise is a light, crisp bit of cinema imported from Sweden. Expanding the duo’s 2001 short film “Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers”, the story lightly spoofs police procedurals as it … Continue reading
Matthias Schoenaerts in ‘Bullhead’. An ambitious debut by director Michael R. Roskam, the Belgian crime drama Bullhead is sometimes clumsy, often brutal, and always gripping. It was nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was in the unenviable position of competing against the superb A Separation. The movie begins as a standard mob movie … Continue reading
Execution is key when it comes to a good — or even just a mediocre — thriller, especially one that hinges on an implausible gimmick or plot concept. If you try to fake you’re way through it, it’ll collapse faster than a house of cards in an earthquake. Director Asger Leth’s and screenwriter Pablo Fenjves’ … Continue reading
The Texas Theater resumes its Tuesday Night Trash film series with a free screening of Hard to Die aka Sorority House Massacre III (1990), 9pm, May 29, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s two-part Sir Ridley films series concludes with a screening of Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise (1991), 7:30 and 10pm, May 29, at the theater. Details The Texas … Continue reading
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