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The Alamo Drafthouse’s Big Screen Classics series continues with a screening of Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942), 12:30pm, February 23, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse’s Tough-Guy Cinema series presents a screening of Walter Hill’s cult classic Streets of Fire (1984), 9pm, February 24, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series continues with Philip Kaufman’s historical drama The Right Stuff (1983), 7:30, … Continue reading
One of the most impressive feats of subversive, satirical stunt film-making in years, Randy Moore’s debut feature Escape From Tomorrow bursts the saccharine-sweet bubble that is the Disney empire without resorting to mean-spiritedness, taking the notion that a shiny surface conceals an equally dark underbelly and running with it like an Olympic sprinter on amphetamines. It’s less … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987), 6pm, August 18, at the theater. Details The Highland Park Film Festival‘s summer film series concludes with a screening of the classic musical The Sound of Music (1965), 7pm, August 19, at the Highland Park Village Theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a screening of the Ealing Studios comedy Whisky … Continue reading
Superficial all the way down to its bitter core, Joshua Michael Sterns’ anemic exposé of Apple founder Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) engages in abject hero-worship while pretending to plumb the depths of a controversial man who helped pave the way for the Information Age. Is disappointing to see the life of such complex figure reduced … Continue reading
Writer-director-actor-polymath Shane Carruth’s abstract, fearless, and utterly absorbing Upstream Color doesn’t reinvent cinema, but it does remind us what cinema can do when we are willing to put ourselves at the mercy of a filmmaker’s vision. Abstract, mesmerizing, allegorical to the core, and willing to forge its own structure for the sake of telling a … Continue reading
For writer-director Derek Cianfrance, filming his multi-generational crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines in Schenectady, New York, was a no-brainer (after all, the movie’s title is the translation of the Mohawk word that the city takes its name from). Cianfrance’s wife is from the town, and their regular trips to visit the in-laws amounted … Continue reading
A sprawling tale of fathers and sons told across generations, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines aims high, compromises rarely, and falters just a little. Cianfrance and co-scripter Ben Coccio (Zero Day) structure their novel-like tale as a triptych of sorts, beginning with an impressive tracking shot that opens the film and introduces Luke … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the film adaptation of the children’s novel The Neverending Story (1985), 5pm, March 24, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Sam Mendes’ Oscar-winning American Beauty (1999), 2 and 7pm, March 27, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of … Continue reading
The art house equivalent of a Girls Gone Wild video, bad-boy auteur Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers offers a mock-morality tale disguised edgy nihilism, albeit one hobbled with an anemic narrative and mind-numbing repetition. That it’s generated as much pre-release buzz as it has is due to its two gimmicks: James Franco’s performance as a Svengali gangsta/wannabe … Continue reading
From its spoileriffic title through to its bizarre left-field climax, writer-director Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep) gleefully taps into the irreverent, self-referencing tone of Big Trouble in Little China, Buckaroo Banzai, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and throws minor inconveniences such as coherence, linear storytelling, and plot plausibility under the bus in favor of rampant farce and cheap thrills … Continue reading
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