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Long before they gave us South Park and The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made their first forays into film and musicals with this indie black comedy based on the infamous story of Alferd Packer, the only American found guilty of cannibalism. The real Packer was a Colorado gold prospector who was the sole … Continue reading
The Exorcist-Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG-13 rating. Part of The Possession‘s gimmick is that it is allegedly based on a true story, one that is much more interesting than the … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents a rare screening of a 35mm print of the classic art house horror flick Possession (1981), 9:30pm, August 19, at the theater. Details The Dallas International Film Festival and the Texas Independent Film Network present a screening of the comedy Searching for Sonny (2011) at 7:30pm, August 20, at the Angelika Film Center. Writer-director Andrew Disney in attendance. Details … Continue reading
Visually stunning and emotionally charged, the stop-motion feature ParaNorman is a surprisingly heavy bit of family entertainment — and that’s saying a great deal about a ‘toon starring a kid who sees dead people. It’s more Coraline than Sixth Sense, however, but with a great deal to say about the virtues of tolerance. Norman (voiced … Continue reading
The Texas Theater and CBS Radio present a free outdoor screening of the Dr. Seuss adaptation The Lorax (2012), at dusk on August 12, at Memorial Crawford Park. Details The Texas Theater continues its monthly Pata Negra Spanish film series with a screening of Fernando León de Aranoa’s brilliant drama Mondays in the Sun (2002), 7:30pm (tapas at 6:30pm), August 12, at the … Continue reading
The Old Ones will rise over Oak Cliff when the historic Texas Theatre and DOA Blood Bath Entertainment present The Unnameable Blood Bath Film Festival II, a one-day micro-fest of H.P. Lovecraft-themed horror films, with a series of screenings starting at 2pm, August 19, at the theater (details). A contemporary of Conan creator (and native Texan) … Continue reading
Very loosely based on the legend of the Beast of Gévaudan — a man-eating animal of unknown origin that terrorized the French countryside in the late 18th century — the historical drama (for lack of a better term) Brotherhood of the Wolf is a gonzo blend of about a half-dozen disparate genres that somehow works as a … Continue reading
In their debut film Open Water (2003), husband-and-wife filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau established a knack for building suspense and genuine fear by depositing hapless everyday folks into a hostile and unforgiving environment. They carry that experience forward with Silent House, a home-invasion thriller built around a gimmick and a twist, either … Continue reading
Consider it an unabashedly guilty pleasure: Cabin Fever (2002) is a tongue-in-cheek, low-budget indie horror comedy with a wicked sense of humor that was sorely missing from the brainless horror schlock of the early 2000s. While those movies were content to rehash the same slasher tropes ad nauseum with little irony, writer-director Eli Roth made his feature … Continue reading
Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction for the first time in 30 years has all the earmarks of a re-awakened giant wiping the sleep from his eyes. Equal parts intriguing and infuriating, its oblique approach to some big questions is unsatisfying. Much has been made of Prometheus‘ “is it or isn’t it?” status as a … Continue reading
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