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This week sees the release of the highly anticipated Skyfall, the 23rd screen outing of James Bond, released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the character’s film career. It’s a track record matched only by Godzilla, who’s just as popular with audiences but doesn’t land nearly as many babes as 007. As with many … Continue reading
The Texas Theater’s monthly Pata Negra Spanish film series returns with a screening of Belle Époque (1992), 7pm, November 4, at the theater. Details Wolvereeeeens!!! The Texas Theater also presents screenings of the Cold War action (ahem) drama Red Dawn (1984), 9:15pm, November 4, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics series with Steve McQueen, James … Continue reading
A hybrid of The High and the Mighty and Leaving Las Vegas, the drama Flight is the kind of movie that could have easily slid into moralizing half-assed melodrama in lesser hands, but as handled by talented veteran director Robert Zemeckis (his first feature since the back-to-back releases of Cast Away and What Lies Beneath … Continue reading
We here at Movie Ink live by the maxim that “Being paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”, and quite frankly we miss the Cold War. The world made more sense back then (in a surreal, Orwellian sort of way). The 50th anniversary of James Bond’s film career and the upcoming release of … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents special digital re-release screenings of John Carpenter’s classic slasher flick Halloween (1978), 8:30pm, October 28 and 31, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series resumes with a screening of the vintage horror classic White Zombie (1932) starring Bela Lugosi, plus a Trashy Trailer Show, 9pm, October 30, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and … Continue reading
Layered, ambitious, steeped in symbolism and philosophy, Cloud Atlas is almost everything you’d expect from a movie directed (or in this instance, co-directed) by the Wachowskis. “Almost” is a good thing in this instance, as the movie (based on David Mitchell’s novel) sheds most of the didacticism and visual excess that made the Matrix sequels … Continue reading
A classic misfire if there ever was one, Rob Cohen’s Alex Cross is intended to reboot the series based on the character made popular by James Patterson’s novels, previously played in two movies starring Morgan Freeman back in the ’90s. That comedy actor Tyler Perry (creator and star of the mega-popular Madea franchise) was cast in … Continue reading
With her suitably bleak and decidedly oblique adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold (“Wasp”, Red Road) delivers a Wuthering Heights that is as cold and distant as is it lush and atmospheric. Anyone with a prejudice against Gothic melodrama isn’t likely to have their minds changed here. For all that’s … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s Big Movie film miniseries presents a screening of David Lean’s war epic The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), 7:30, October 16, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics series with the classic Disney musical Mary Poppins (1964), 2 and 7pm, October 17, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Dallas Film Society continues its new … Continue reading
A thinking man’s espionage thriller that gives weight to the notion that truth is indeed stranger than fiction, Argo quickly dispels any lingering doubts as to whether or not Ben Affleck’s recent acclaim as a director is just a fluke. Affleck directs with even more confidence and capability than he displayed in Gone Baby Gone … Continue reading
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