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Let’s face it: Between the shopping frenzy and having to put up with one’s relatives, the holidays are more stressful than they theoretically should be. Sitting down to decompress just to be confronted with the umpteenth broadcast of A Christmas Carol or The Miracle on 34th Street is enough to curdle one’s eggnog. (We here … Continue reading
The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series presents a screening of the classic Howard Hawks western Rio Bravo (1959), starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson, 7:30pm, November 20, at the theater. Details The Dallas Film Society continues its weekly Movies at Sundown Series with a screening of Zach Braff’s romantic comedy Garden State (2004), 8pm, November 21, at Sundown at Granada. Details The … Continue reading
Texan director Del Shores (Sordid Lives) and actor-producer Emerson Collins will headline a two-day series of panels (below) presented by the USA Film Festival on Friday and Saturday, at the Angelika Film Center. Shores and Collins will also open their latest feature, Blues for Willadean, featuring recent Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer (The Help). Friday, October … Continue reading
One of the most popular and influential genre writers of the pulp era, H. P. Lovecraft was a master of weird fiction, a heady blend of dark fantasy and terror with the occasional science fiction twist. His fans have long since opined the fact that the bulk of his works are long overdue for film … 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
According to a report in Variety, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will produce the indie ensemble drama Parkland for their production company, Playtone. Journalist and screenwriter Peter Landesman (Trade) will make his directorial debut on the project, which covers the events leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The title … Continue reading
Anyone who’s had their fill of the increasingly shallow buffet of American culture will find it easy to relate comedian Bobcat Goldthwait’s (Shakes the Clown, World’s Greatest Dad) no-holds-barred, sacred cow-barbecuing satire that targets everything from our increasingly shallow pop culture to bad manners. It takes the shotgun approach — literally so in some scenes — … Continue reading
Last year, Reservoir Geeks sponsored an event to save the Days Inn Hillsboro TX where the motel scenes of Wes Anderson’s 1996 debut movie Bottle Rocket were filmed. In movie terms, the event was enough of a success to warrant a sequel, and so on July 21st, the Second Annual Lovely Soiree at the Bottle Rocket … Continue reading
One of the great social revolutionaries of the 20th Century, Bill Wilson changed the world in a way few people have, via a social movement that now spans 150 countries and 2 million members. Bill W., the exceptionally comprehensive character study of the Alcoholics Anonymous founder by first-time filmmakers Kevin Hanlon and Dan Carracino provide … Continue reading
When Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, he started a movement that would spread to more than 150 countries and change millions of lives for the better. Time magazine named him “Man of the Year”; he’s been the subject of numerous biographies, and James Woods played him in a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV … Continue reading
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