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Granted, no one can (or should) go into “A Film by Paul W. S. Anderson” expecting quality film-making, so in a certain sense his historical melodrama Pompeii meets expectations; the flat acting and paint-by-numbers plot are only exceeded by the visual excess that carries it. A confounding hybrid of action-drama-love story and disaster flick, it’s Gladiator meets Krakatoa: East … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series continues with Howard Hawks’ screwball comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), 7:30 and 10pm, February 18, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a Quote-Along screening of the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski (1998), 9pm, February 22, at the theater. Details The Angelika Film Center continues its Oscar Classics series with a screening of David Lean’s … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with screenings of Sleepless in Seattle (1993), 2pm February 9 and 2pm and 7pm February 12, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a screening of the classic musical West Side Story (1961), 12:30pm, February 9, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series continues with Michael Curtiz’s classic … Continue reading
Valentine’s Day is nigh, and as sales of candy, flowers, and see-through lingerie sky-rocket, it’s important to remember the reason for the season: celebrating your love for your significant other, and possibly getting laid in the process. Here’s a selection of classic romance movies to set the mood; single people should stick with porn and preferably lay low on … Continue reading
A lukewarm effort that fails to adequately plumb the depths of a winning premise, director/actor/screenwriter George Clooney’s The Monuments Men positions itself to make a grand commentary on the importance of art and its preservation — and then says little on the topic. Clooney and co-scripter Grant Heslov can’t seem to decide if they want … Continue reading
Jason Reitman showed an amazing degree of emotional acuity with his first three movies: Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), and Up In the Air (2009); sadly, every single bit of that seems to have evaporated with his screen adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s 2009 novel Labor Day. As hokey and tone-deaf as it is implausible, this sloppy … Continue reading
As part of its Alamo 100 series, the Alamo Drafthouse will screen Charlie Chaplin’s silent comedy masterpiece City Lights (1931), noon, January 19, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series continues with the Martin Scorsese’s gangster classic Goodfellas (1990), 7:30 and 10:15pm, January 21, at the theater. Details Also for its Alamo 100 series, the Alamo Drafthouse will screen Steven … Continue reading
The Alamo Drafthouse will screen Terry Gilliam’s surreal dark satire Brazil (1985), noon, January 12, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series continues with the action comedy Midnight Run (1988), 7:30 and 10pm, January 14, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse will screen the Cold War thriller The Hunt for Red October (1990), 7pm, January 14 (with screenings of the … Continue reading
A heartbreaking, quirky, and ultimately inspiring look at love in the Information Age, Spike Jonze’s Her is an unconventional romantic comedy that offers a profound and incredibly insightful meditation on relationships in a world changing faster than we can comprehend. Joaquin Phoenix delivers one of his most nuanced performances as Theodore, a lost soul living in … Continue reading
Based on ex-Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s book about a 2005 mission in Afghanistan that went shockingly and tragically bad, Lone Survivor plays out like the antithesis of the standard hoo-rah military-themed action films that have been a staple of American cinema since the 1960s. Much like similar fact-based films Black Hawk Down and Captain Phillips, the … Continue reading
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