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The Texas Theater presents a 35mm screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller Vertigo (1958), 5:15pm, October 7, at the theater. Details The Dallas International Film Festival and the Texas Independent Film Network present a screening of the documentary Man on a Mission (2010), about self-made astronaut Richard Garriott, at 7:30pm, October 9, at the Angelika Film Center. Filmmaker in attendance. Details The Magnolia … Continue reading
The Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano bring back their “Hitchcocktober” film series for a second season, starting Thursday, October 4 and continuing weekly through the 25th. The two separate sets of programming (listed below) feature classic thrillers by master director Alfred Hitchcock, both culminating with screenings of his 1958 masterpiece Vertigo, which recently … Continue reading
You’d think people would have learned to stop fucking with Liam Neeson by now. Let’s put it into perspective: In the past few years of his career alone he’s killed shitloads of terrorists, led the A-team, been a talking lion, slapped around half of ancient Greece, and taken on a pack of wolves with his … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents a double-screening of Terry Gilliam’s time-travel adventure film 12 Monkeys (1995) along with the avant-garde Chris Marker short that inspired it, “La Jetee”, 6:15pm, September 30, at the theater. Details The Dallas Film Society launches its new weekly Movies at Sundown Series with a screening of Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo novel Fear … Continue reading
Richard Gere resurfaces, only to be trapped in an atonal crime drama that picks the wrong time and place to ask audiences to root for a Wall Street banker — one trying to cover up manslaughter and shady business dealings, no less. Admittedly, Gere is in fine form, it’s too bad his is a great … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents a screening of the mods vs. rockers musical Quadrophenia (1979), 9pm, September 2, at the theater. Details The Magnolia launches its Challenging Autuer film miniseries with a screening of director John Huston and writer Arthur Miller’s drama The Misfits (1961), 7:30 and 10pm, September 4, at the theater. Details The Texas Theater resumes its Tuesday Night Trash film series … Continue reading
Part thriller, part fever dream, British director Ben Wheatley’s genre mash-up Kill List is a shocking, unsettling, forceful work that plays like the missing link between The Wicker Man and Angel Heart by way of Get Carter. Jay (Neil Maskell) is a suburban British husband and father who’s been unemployed for several months. Since then, he’s been bickering with his Swedish wife Shel … Continue reading
It was a good idea on paper, but in execution The Bourne Legacy‘s attempt to re-stoke the fires of the franchise with a new face stuffed in the same formula comes across as Bourne Lite. A good espionage flick weighed down by three movies-worth of familiarity and too much devotion to the series’ back story, its baggage … Continue reading
In their debut film Open Water (2003), husband-and-wife filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau established a knack for building suspense and genuine fear by depositing hapless everyday folks into a hostile and unforgiving environment. They carry that experience forward with Silent House, a home-invasion thriller built around a gimmick and a twist, either … Continue reading
The Dallas Film Society continues its Summer Screenings series with a free screening of Alan Miller’s acclaimed documentary The Turandot Project (2000) at 7:30pm, July 16, at the Studio Movie Grill. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics summerfilm series continues with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller North by Northwest (1959), … Continue reading
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