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The Kimball Art Museum’s Free Film Series presents Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Band of Outsiders (1964) in conjunction with the museum’s Age of Impressionism exhibit at 2 pm, June 3, in the museum auditorium. Details The Texas Theater presents a screening of the digitally remastered edition of Yellow Submarine (1968), 4:45pm, June 3, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater begins its new monthly Petra Negra … Continue reading
The Texas Theater resumes its Tuesday Night Trash film series with a free screening of Hard to Die aka Sorority House Massacre III (1990), 9pm, May 29, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s two-part Sir Ridley films series concludes with a screening of Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise (1991), 7:30 and 10pm, May 29, at the theater. Details The Texas … Continue reading
A wasted opportunity if there ever was one, Oren Peli’s (Paranormal Activity) anemic Chernobyl Diaries could have been an inspired bit of B-movie gold if it had been a little less half-assed. The story features the usual stock horror movie victims — er, characters — six young vacationers hanging out in the Ukraine who … Continue reading
While it’s a cheap thrill to see Hammer Film Productions — purveyor of so many other cheap thrills during the 1930s-’80s — back in business after decades in purgatory, their first post-revival production is a reminder of what drained the life from the iconic schlock factory and sent it into limbo to begin with: cheap, … Continue reading
Every movie about demonic possession invariably gets compared to The Exorcist, perhaps unfairly so but not without reason. William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty crafted a white-knuckle exercise in terror that, almost 40 years later, still leaves audiences with nightmares and theater managers with urine-soaked seats. The latest challenger to the throne, The Devil Inside, is a … Continue reading
Much like its progenitor, The Blair Witch Project, the first Paranormal Activity thrived on novelty value and a degree of creativity within its bare-bones indie production that helped turn horror away from the torture porn aspect that dominated it for the past decade. The inevitable sequel and string of knock-offs have since bled it dry. … Continue reading
Johnny Depp starring in a Tim Burton remake of the cult-favorite ’60s-’70s gothic soap opera may seem like a no-brainer, but fans of any or all of the above will be hard-pressed to find much satisfaction in Dark Shadows. It’s a vampire comedy without much bite, and its quirkiness wears thin quickly. Bearing only a passing resemblance … Continue reading
Drive Angry 3D is one of those giddily trashy, gleefully self-obsessed movies that defies critique — in the conventional sense, at least. Not that that’s a bad thing; in fact, it’s so absurdly trashy and ridiculously over-the-top (on purpose, mind you) that if you don’t outright hate it, you’ll flat-out love it. Nicolas Cage, whose … Continue reading
A tepid high-concept thriller, The Raven is nice to look at but it only timidly delivers the macabre thrills, tragic romanticism, and oppressive fatalism necessary for a movie that draws heavily from the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe. Set during the final days of the author’s life, quickly introducing us to a Poe … 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
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