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One of the most surprising and effective survival films of in a long time, The Grey is a nerve-wracking drama that wrings quite a lot from very little while submitting viewers to a glimpse of an icy hell on earth. It’s hard to believe it’s from director Joe Carnahan and produced by Tony Scott, whose respective screamingly over-the-top … Continue reading
Though the marketing of Catfish may have unwary viewers believing it to be a thriller of sorts, it’s actually something a bit more conventional. This doesn’t stop it from being suspenseful and, at times, unsettling, through the final payoff. The movie is a documentary on a young New York photographer named Nev Schulman, filmed by his … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Uptown/Downtown series with a screening of John Schlesinger’s Oscar-winning drama Midnight Cowboy (1969), 7:30pm, May 8, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series continues with free screening of the Mexploitation classic Intrepidos Punks (1980), 9pm, May 8, at the theater. Details The Austin Film Festival and … Continue reading
A young boy witnesses the brutal beating of his father and violent death of his mother one horrible night on an isolated street. Flash forward several years later, and the kid is now a 17-year-old obsessed with finding the killer and extracting vengeance. Any semblance writer-director Michael Morrissey’s harrowing drama Boy Wonder (2010) may have to … Continue reading
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 42nd Annual USA Film Festival begins its five-day festival season this evening. The programming schedule includes 22 documentaries and feature films, as well as a short-film showcase. Here’s a short list of Movie Ink‘s recommended viewing (all screenings are at the Angelika Film Center): Children of Paradise (6:30pm, April 25) Produced under daunting circumstances and very … 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
One of the best movies about the movies ever made, John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust is an unsettling, unconventional blend of satire, gothic melodrama, and straight-up weirdness with a nerve-rattling, lunatic ending. The movie adapts Nathanael West’s 1939 novel about a talented young art director, Tod (William Atherton), who journeys to Hollywood and instantly … Continue reading
A tale told in broad strokes, The Iron Lady is an average biopic grounded by yet another award-winning performance by Meryl Streep, who this time transforms herself into controversial Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a performance that deserves a better movie to inhabit. It’s a very loose biography, framed by an inordinate amount of screen time set … Continue reading
The 2012 Dallas International Film Festival begins its 11-day festival season on Wednesday, April 12, with a programming schedule that includes 111 films representing 27 countries. Here’s a short list of Movie Ink‘s recommended viewing: Alps (4:15pm, April 13 and 7:30pm, April 20, Angelika Film Center) Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to the controversial, Academy … Continue reading
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