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This Week’s Special Screenings

The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), various showtimes, May 12, at the theater. Details Central 214 at the Hotel Palomar continues its Sunday Sunset Movie Nights on the Patio series with a screening of My Fair Lady (1964), 9pm, May 12; and Gladiator (2000), 9pm, May 19, at the hotel. Details … Continue reading

To Go Boldly Where No Critic Has Gone Before: Ranking the ‘Star Trek’ Films

The release of Star Trek (2009) not only reinvigorated Gene Roddenberry’s successful science fiction franchise, it also helped deliver a one-two punch to what had been an unwritten cinematic law: even-numbered Trek movies tend to be blockbuster hits, but odd-numbered ones are unapologetic box office bombs. The first blow to what had always been a … Continue reading

This Week’s Special Screenings

The Texas Theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series continues with a screening of the horror comedy Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988), 9pm, May 7, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with the science fiction classic Alien (1979), 2 and 7pm, May 8, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm … Continue reading

Movie review: ‘Oblivion’

Director Joseph Kosinski made a tepid debut 2010 years ago with stylish but hollow sequel Tron 2.0. There is just as much style in his latest science fiction spectacle, but at least this time around it’s in the service of a high-falutin story that isn’t afraid to inject a little mystery into a well-worn but … Continue reading

This Week’s Special Screenings

The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Francois Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 (1966), 4pm, April 14, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Billy Wilder’s masterpiece Sunset Blvd. (1950), various showtimes, April 18, 20, and 21, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm Janus Films print of David … Continue reading

This Week’s Special Screenings

The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the epic sequel Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987), 8:15pm, April 7, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with an offer you can’t refuse: a digitally restored print of The Godfather (1972), 2 and 7pm, April 10, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness feature … Continue reading

This Week’s Special Screenings:

Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), 2 and 7pm, January 30, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining (1980), 7pm, January 27, at the theater. Details The Texas Theatre will also screen a 35mm print … Continue reading

Infectious Films: Our Favorite Movie Outbreaks

With fear of an Ebola outbreak hovering over us here in Dallas, the hypochondriacs here at Movie Ink can’t help being fixated on infectious films. Here are some faves that go great with orange juice and cough drops: Panic In the Streets (1950). Directed by Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) and starring Richard Widmark and Jack … Continue reading

This Week’s Special Screenings:

The Texas Theatre presents Dino De Laurentiis and Mike Hodges’ science fiction-action-comedy-adventure classic Flash Gordon (1980), 8:30pm, January 6, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky (1976), 2 and 7pm, January 9, at select Cinemark theaters. Details Chris Vognar’s Screening Room monthly series continues its look at classic comedies with … Continue reading

This Week’s Special Screenings:

The Texas Theatre presents Dino De Laurentiis and Mike Hodges’ science fiction-action-comedy-adventure classic Flash Gordon (1980), various showtimes, January 3-6, at the theater. Details The Inwood Theatre’s Midnight Madness series presents Mel Brooks’ western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974) on January 4 and 5, at the theater. Details

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