Review: ‘Restless’
Two teens deal with grief and death in Gus Van Sant’s lyrical romantic drama.
Samurai Art Museum Set to Open
Movie buffs, get your samurai swords out.
Weekend in D/FW: ‘Repo Chick,’ ‘Summer Wars,’ ‘Illusionist’
Green screen on a budget, two animated features, and a drug dealing drama await.
Weekend in D/FW: ‘Dogtooth,’ ‘All Good,’ ‘Company Men,’ ‘Everything Fine,’ ‘Strings,’ ‘Way Back’
The Sundance Film Festival began last night, with early, extremely positive word leaking out about ‘Project Nim,’ a documentary by James Marsh (‘Man on Wire’) about a chimp who learns sign language; horror flick ‘Silent House,’ starring Elizabeth Olsen (younger sister of The Twins), made some gasp with fright and others roll their eyes in [...]
Last Call: ‘Lemmy,’ ‘Night Catches Us,’ ‘White Material,’ ‘Rabbit Hole’ Plus ‘Shock Corridor,’ ‘Suspiria’
A cornucopia of closers fill the coffers of local cine-maniacs tonight and tomorrow. Add in a couple of special screenings, and I don’t know if you have time to breath between showtimes. First, the films that are finishing up their limited engagements (links to showtimes included): ‘Lemmy: The Movie.’ Documentary about the Motorhead frontman; our [...]
‘The Dilemma’ Challenges the Conventions of Comedy
Remember when comedies used to be funny? ‘The Dilemma,‘ starring Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, and Channing Tatum, challenges that conventional thinking, but maybe not in the way the filmmakers intended. “If you like characters who don’t speak and act in a recognizably human way, you’ll love “The Dilemma,” the new comedy [...]
Weekend in D/FW: ‘White Material,’ ‘Lemmy,’ ‘Night Catches Us,’ ‘Green Hornet,’ ‘Dilemma’
Weekend in D/FW is a weekly feature that corrals all the films that are opening, along with special screenings and events. Plan ahead! Saturday and Sunday look like rain days in the Metroplex, so where better to curl up with a friend than in a warm movie theater? Here are my top 5 picks for [...]
Last Call: ‘Made in Dagenham’ at Inwood / Angelika Plano, ‘Terribly Happy’ at Texas Theatre
Last Call is a weekly feature that rounds up films that will be completing their local engagements. ‘Made in Dagenham’ is a fine, sturdy British period drama, but it’s the one that doesn’t feature a member of the royal family who struggles with a speech impediment. ‘Made in Dagenham’ is similar in quality to ‘The [...]
Tonight in D/FW: Samurai Sighting in Oak Cliff! (‘Sword of Doom’ at Texas Theatre)
Tonight in D/FW is a weekly features that relieves you of the tedium of deciding what to do on a weeknight. “Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune star in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence,” says the Criterion Collection, which issued this 1966 film from director Kihachi Okamoto on [...]
‘Blue Valentine’: Why Does Love Got to be So Ugly and Sad? (Review)
By effectively (and affectingly) contrasting the beguiling, endearing beginning and the rancorous, soul-crushing end of a romantic relationship — and leaving out the tricky, complicated path that led the couple from A to Z — ‘Blue Valentine’ paints itself into a corner. The highs and lows of the love affair between Dean (Ryan Gosling) and [...]
