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With fear of an Ebola outbreak hovering over us here in Dallas, the hypochondriacs here at Movie Ink can’t help being fixated on infectious films. Here are some faves that go great with orange juice and cough drops: Panic In the Streets (1950). Directed by Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) and starring Richard Widmark and Jack … Continue reading
Graced with a simple but rich premise, Mama starts off at a brisk pace but eventually runs out of energy and staggers through a perplexing conclusion that tries to be both happy and downbeat at the same time. Rookie director Andres Muschietti adapts his own Spanish-language short film, under the guiding hand of producer and … Continue reading
As part of its Architecture in Movies series, the Kimbell Art Museum and Lone Star Film Society present a screening of Jacques Tati’s comedy Play Time (1967), 2pm, January 13, at the museum. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Roman Polanski’s psycho-thriller Repulsion (1965), at 6:30pm, January 13, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre and Cine Las Americas … Continue reading
Cursed by bad-timing and a severe lack of originality, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad is every bit as generic as its title indicates. It’s certainly pretty to look as its glitzy visual recreation of Los Angeles circa 1949 drips sumptuously with glamour and period detail; however, the creativity ends there, with Fleischer wasting a top-notch cast in … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents Dino De Laurentiis and Mike Hodges’ science fiction-action-comedy-adventure classic Flash Gordon (1980), 8:30pm, January 6, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky (1976), 2 and 7pm, January 9, at select Cinemark theaters. Details Chris Vognar’s Screening Room monthly series continues its look at classic comedies with … Continue reading
With the riveting, compelling, and unshakably haunting Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow proves her historic Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker was no fluke. She takes the heightened realism of that movie one step further here, tapping into the cinema verité feel of The Battle of Algiers for a dramatic retelling of the decade-long hunt for … Continue reading
Tom Hooper’s (The King’s Speech) extravagant movie adaptation of the long-running musical version of Victor Hugo’s tale of the haves and the have-nots, is systematically big, loud, splashy, and melodramatic — exactly what it should be, all things considered. Boasting big-budget opulence and a star-studded cast, it doesn’t radically re-interpret Les Misérables, but it does … Continue reading
With the campy, violent, tongue-in-cheek pulp western Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino comes at us full-tilt, both guns appropriately blazing. Hollywood’s most idiosyncratic working director seems intent on one-upping himself, doing to America’s shameful history with slavery what he did for Nazis in Inglorious Basterds, and then some. Be prepared to squirm in your seat. Tarantino name-checks … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a screening of a 35mm print of The Jerk (1979) starring Steve Martin, 7:30pm, December 16, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre also presents a screening of a restored print of the long-lost the seminal Aussie thriller Wake in Fright (1971), 5pm, December 16, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series presents a screening of … Continue reading
With 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, writer-director Judd Apatow gave a white bread Middle America a voice with which to shout its meager frustrations while simultaneously deflating them. Unfortunately This is 40, his paean to the onset of middle age, lacks the wit, energy, and goofball insight to do more than whimper. Touted as a sequel … Continue reading
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