Love is a many-splintered thing in Gone Girl, a gleefully snarky satire disguised as a thriller directed by David Fincher and adapted by Gillian Flynn from her own best-selling novel. It’s likely to do for prenuptial agreements what The Bucket List did for, well, bucket lists. This is one of those instances of a review having … Continue reading
The Alamo Drafthouse’s Big Screen Classics series continues with a screening of Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942), 12:30pm, February 23, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse’s Tough-Guy Cinema series presents a screening of Walter Hill’s cult classic Streets of Fire (1984), 9pm, February 24, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series continues with Philip Kaufman’s historical drama The Right Stuff (1983), 7:30, … Continue reading
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 Martin Scorsese’s early crime drama Mean Streets (1973), various showtimes, October 20, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents a 35mm double feature of James Whale’s horror classics Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), 1pm, October 20, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents the EC Comics-inspired horror anthology Creepshow (1982), 7:45pm, … 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
The Alamo Drafthouse’s month-long Universal Monsters series continues with a screening of a restored 3-D print of The Wolf Man (1941) starring Lon Chaney Jr., 4pm, October 6, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents Rob Zombie’s splatterfest House of 1,000 Corpses (2003), 7pm, October 8, at the theater. Details The Magnolia’s Big Movie film series returns with a screening of the Academy Award-winning … Continue reading
Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios’ Reel Classics series continues with a digitally restored print of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo (1958), 2pm September 29 and 2pm and 7pm October 2, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Alamo Drafthouse’s month-long Universal Monsters series begins with a screening of a restored 3-D print of the classic The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), 2pm, … Continue reading
The Texas Theatre presents a 35mm print of the classic James Bond flick Goldfinger (1964), 7pm, September 22, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse ushers in the new school year a screening of the comedy Teen Wolf (1985), 7pm, September 23, at the theater. Details The Alamo Drafthouse presents Buster Keaton’s classic silent comedy College (1927) with a live piano score performed by Robert … Continue reading
The Dallas Museum of Art’s Love, War, and Myth in Ancient Greece summer film series continues with a free screening of Clash of the Titans (1981), 7pm, August 15, in the museum’s Horchow Auditorium. Details Chris Vognar’s Screening Room monthly series resumes with a free screening of Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking thriller M (1931) at 7:30pm, August 15, at the … Continue reading
Marc Forster’s long-awaited, loose adaptation of Max Brooks’ cult novel, World War Z became notorious last year when the release date was pushed by several months, weeks worth of footage filmed in Bulgaria was scrapped, and the script was extensively rewritten in the middle of production. Surprisingly, the seams in the story remain hidden, but it … Continue reading