Posts Tagged ‘film’
Wednesday Matinees
Big TicketIf you’re a reader who picks up this newspaper as soon as it hits the stands on Wednesdays (and we thank you), here’s your reward: The two events we’re spotlighting this week are both movies that screen tonight, so thereâ...
Idiocracy
Forest Whitaker reigns supreme over the flawed The Last King of Scotland.Kristian Lin
Throughout his career, Forest Whitaker has always been the nice guy.
Family Coup
The palaces are pretty but empty in the Chinese epic Curse of the Golden Flower.KRISTIAN LIN
Four years ago Zhang Yimou made the most expensive film in Chinese history, Hero, with an estimated budget of $30 million.
Chinese Opera
Big TicketFort Worth opera lovers haven’t had it easy the last few months. The local opera company has been in hibernation all season and won’t come out until the big festival in the summer. Meanwhile, the New York’s Metropolitan O...
Lord of the Wings
Big TicketWhen it came out in 1980, Airplane! was considered frenetically paced for a comedy film.
No Kids Under 18
The human race nears its end in the remorseless sci-fi thriller Children of Men.Kristian Lin
Two years ago, Alfonso Cuarón directed a luminous adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and revitalized a movie series that might otherwise have died prematurely.
Ricky Bobby’s Guide to Life (Or At Least the Movies)
How Talladega Nights Explains the Year in CinemaKristian Lin
One of the things that makes movie-going such an enjoyably unpredictable business is that every once in a while, a lowbrow comedy tells us more about ourselves than all the self-serious Oscar-baiting epic films and self-congrat...
Horrors in Black and White
Some local filmmakers are ramping up for 2007.Kultur
Up until recently, Ridgmar Movie Tavern showed pay-per-view WWE wrestling matches about once a week.
Top Films of 2006
With so many good movies, our film critic has a hard time sticking to just 10.Kristian Lin
While it was going on, 2006 didn’t seem to me like that great a year for movies.
Klaatu Barada Nikto
Big TicketWhile the 1950s produced great science-fiction movies such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, many people associate the decade’s sci-fi with the films of Edward Wood — dreadful special effects, hilariously stilted dialogue,...