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January is typically the lean season when it comes to movie releases. The studios have fired off their Oscar bait over the holidays and are saving their next round of high-profile tent pole releases for the lucrative spring and summer seasons. That said, Contraband is better than one would expect around that time of the … 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
Update: A release date of October 4, 2013 has been set. Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba have signed on to return in their respective roles. Fans of Sin City began clamoring for a sequel soon after its 2005 release, and for the past several years co-writers/directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller (the latter of whom … Continue reading
The much-anticipated American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel (or remake of the Swedish film version, depending on how you look at it) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo finds director David Fincher in fine form, returning to the dark, twisted pulp that he does so well but hasn’t touched since Zodiac in 2007 and Seven in 1997. Like those films, Dragon Tattoo is a seedy … Continue reading
Though he worked almost exclusively in television, Allen Baron made a name for himself writing, directing, and starring in the Blast of Silence, an obscure indie gem made during the brief gap between the film noir cycle of American post-war cinema and the French New Wave. A de facto hybrid of the two, it is a haunting … Continue reading
Heist movies have become increasingly tired and rote, yet with Drive Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn gets plenty of stylized mileage out of a reinvented wheel. Loosely adapted from James Sallis’ novella by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Hossein Amini, it’s an instant cult classic. Ryan Gosling stars as Driver (like many a movie gunfighter and samurai, his true … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues unabated with the grindhouse action-crime drama classic Sex and Fury (1973), 9pm, March 11, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Great Directors showcase with … Continue reading
After toiling on low-budget, B-grade features for a few years, Peter Fonda arrived as a talented and promising young actor and filmmaker with the release of Easy Rider in 1969; he almost immediately sank back into toiling away on low-budget, B-grade features. Among the most oddball of these — and that’s saying a lot about … Continue reading
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