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The Alamo Drafthouse presents the classic Dracula (1931), 4pm, October 27, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse’s next Girlie Night feature is the supernatural comedy Hocus Pocus (1993), 7 and 9:50pm, October 29, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series returns with a screening of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968), 7:30 and 10:15pm, October 29, at the theater. Details The Angelika Film … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (1981), 7pm October 13, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series returns with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), 7:30 and 10pm, October 15, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a 35mm print screening of Stan Winston’s under-rated cult horror … Continue reading
Perhaps the hardest hard-science fiction movie to date, Gravity is both a breath-taking, sometimes awe-inspiring, and often chilling examination the dangers of space exploration, what it takes to endure this harshest of environments, and a confrontation with mortality. Or to put bluntly: It makes Apollo 13 look like Capricorn One. Co-written by Alfonso Cuarón and … Continue reading
The Alamo Drafthouse presents a screening of the controversial Japanese satire-thriller Battle Royale (2000), 7pm, September 10, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of David Cronenberg’s horror classic The Brood (1979), various showtimes, September 12-15, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse also presents Wes Anderson’s breakthrough comedy Rushmore (1998), 7pm, September 11, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents … Continue reading
Wisely smaller in scope yet appropriately over-the-top, writer-director David Twohy and actor Vin Diesel’s return to the character who helped put both of them on the map some 15 years ago, Riddick is sci-fi pulp cheese that will satisfy fans if little else. An escaped con with night vision eyes, Riddick became a surprise cult … Continue reading
The stunning, vertigo-inducing trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity (opening in theaters next month) has been shaking up audiences for the past few weeks with hair-raising footage of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts cast adrift during a disastrous spacewalk. The Final Frontier captures the human imagination like nothing else, but often we forget that … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the science fiction comedy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), 4:30pm, September 1, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a screening of the classic ’80s sci-fi comedy Real Genius (1985), 7pm, September 3, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a screening of Amy Heckerling’s classic coming-of-age comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), … Continue reading
The Kimbell Art Museum’s Summer Adventure Series: From Amazon to Andes series concludes with a screening of Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings (1939), 2pm, August 25, at the museum. Details The Texas Theatre also presents a 35mm print of the live-action fantasy-action cult classic Masters of the Universe (1987), 4:30pm, August 25, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a screening … Continue reading
The third collaboration between writer-director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World’s End pulls off an impressive feat at the tail-end of a summer movie season loaded to the gills with varying apocalypses and mind-numbing scenes of mass destruction by finding humor in Armageddon, outdoing the similarly themed This is the … Continue reading
After establishing themselves in the UK in the late ’90s with the cult-classic sitcom Spaced, writer-director Edgar Wright and his perennial co-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost snuck onto the world stage with the zombie rom-com Shaun of the Dead in 2004 and the action movie spoof Hot Fuzz in 2007. Since then, Wright put … Continue reading
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