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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
The 2012 Dallas International Film Festival begins its 11-day festival season on Wednesday, April 12, with a programming schedule that includes 111 films representing 27 countries. Here’s a short list of Movie Ink‘s recommended viewing: Alps (4:15pm, April 13 and 7:30pm, April 20, Angelika Film Center) Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to the controversial, Academy … Continue reading
The ongoing march of the comic book movie genre stumbles a bit with Warner Bros.’ sporadically entertaining adaptation of the slightly obscure Green Lantern. It’s not the fiasco early reports would have you believe, nor is it as engaging as the recent Thor or X-Men: First Class. Generally affable Ryan Reynolds stars as Hal Jordan, a hotshot test pilot … Continue reading
In honor of its 15th anniversary, Titanic — James Cameron’s mega-blockbuster that forever redefined mega-blockbusters — will receive the 3-D conversion treatment when it is re-released in select theaters this week. Ironically, thanks primarily to the success of Cameron’s equally blockbusting Avatar, it seems like you can’t throw a brick at a megaplex these days without hitting … Continue reading
A war movie with science fiction trappings, Battle: Los Angeles is unfortunately a missed opportunity mired in cliche, banality, and cornball sentimentality. It hits the ground running, quickly (too quickly) introducing most of the characters in-between faux coverage of a bizarre meteor shower that quickly turns out to be the vanguard of an alien invasion. … Continue reading
The latest entry in the in the live-action series based on the Hasbro toy line is every bit the sort of bombastic spectacle we’ve come to know and loathe from director Michael Bay; it’s also less of a beating to sit through than the previous entries thanks to a tiny amount of restraint. Granted, that’s … Continue reading
The first real event movie in a year littered with them, The Hunger Games is poised to inherit the mantle of “Next Great Young Adult Novel Franchise Turned Blockbuster Film Franchise” from the concluded Harry Potter series and the wish-it-never-had-been Twilight series. Many have tried and failed (we’re looking at you, I Am Number and … 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
It’s a good thing Attack the Block opened in the UK back in the merry, merry month of May 2011; its scenes of a squalid section of South London reduced to a flaming war zone might not have played too well in British megaplexes during the riots that erupted last Spring. On this side of … Continue reading
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
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