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The Texas Theater presents a special screening of a 35mm print of Blake Edward’s caper comedy The Pink Panther (1963), 4:20pm, April 8, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series concludes its two-part Biblical Spectaculars series with a screening of Cecil B. DeMille’s star-studded, quintessential Bible epic The Ten Commandments (1956), 7pm, April … Continue reading
Both fascinating and frustrating, the school-is-hell art-house drama Detachment is alternately shrill and sharp to an almost fatal degree. Written by Carl Lund and directed by British artist and occasional filmmaker (it’s only his second feature, the first being American History X way back in 1998), it is a potent, provocative, and sometimes effective condemnation … Continue reading
The highly anticipated big screen version of the young adult novel The Hunger Games opens in theaters this weekend (see our review here). The material owes at least a kernel of its central premise – children forced to stalk and fight each other to the death in a wilderness arena — to the 1924 short … Continue reading
Though he worked almost exclusively in television, Allen Baron made a name for himself writing, directing, and starring in the Blast of Silence, an obscure indie gem made during the brief gap between the film noir cycle of American post-war cinema and the French New Wave. A de facto hybrid of the two, it is a haunting … Continue reading
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