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This Week’s Special Screenings:

The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series begins its two-part Biblical Spectaculars series with a screening of William Wyler’s Academy Award-winning epic Ben-Hur (1959) starring Charlton Heston, 7pm, April 3, at the theater. Details — The Texas Theater presents special screenings of a 35mm print of Blake Edward’s caper comedy The Pink Panther (1963), 7:20pm, April 4 … Continue reading

This Week’s Repertory Screenings:

The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues with the girl-bikers-run-amok action flick Girl Boss Guerilla (1982), 9pm (karaoke at 8pm), March 25, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series concludes its Great Directors showcase with a … Continue reading

Dangerous Game: 10 Great Manhunter Movies

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

This Week’s Repertory Films:

The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues with Sogo Ishii’s punk rock sci-fi musical Burst City (1982), 9pm (karaoke at 8pm), March 18, at the theater. Details — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Great Directors showcase with a … Continue reading

This Week’s Repertory Screenings:

The Texas Theatre’s Kimono Club series — featuring the best in Japanese cinema, bad karaoke, Kirin and sake bombs — continues unabated with the grindhouse action-crime drama classic Sex and Fury (1973), 9pm, March 11, at the theater. Details   — The Magnolia’s The Big Movie classic films series continues its Great Directors showcase with … Continue reading

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