Opening Credits: What’s New at the Theater This Week, November 4

“Oh, that sounds awesome! Let’s see that.” “It’s only open in New York and L.A.” “I guess we’ll just have to stay home and watch reruns of Hoarders all weekend. Lame.” Don’t let this happen to you. Again. Every Friday, Opening Credits will provide you with a peek at what’s…

Tower Heist: Lobby vs. Penthouse

A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against penthouse. Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the manager of The Tower, an exclusive apartment building on New York’s Columbus Circle (the Trump International, in fact). Josh’s job is to know…

The Skin I Live In: Really Extreme Makeover

The morality of the mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein’s hubristic claim to “know what it feels like to be God,” to Jurassic Park’s criticism of “scientists [who] were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop…

The A-List: Dallas Episode 4: Chase Takes a Slurry Lover

Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TVThis week on The A-List: Dallas, our cast members engaged in one long, drunken game of Telephone. As usual, it ended with sex, rage and bananas. Let’s do this. Scene 1: We open on the object of everyone’s desire, cowboy Levi, as…

The Mixmaster’s Horror Movie Countdown, October 31: Pumpkinhead

We’ve done it. A complete 31 fun-filled days of Horror. Some have made us laugh. Some cry. And when we’re talking about this genre, those two reactions usually carry completely different connotations! We appropriately kicked this thing off with John Carpenter’s Halloween and Nick, Merritt, and I attempted to take…

The Mixmaster Horror Movie Countdown, October 29: The Wicker Man

Corn rigs and barley rigs, not Nicolas Cage. 1973, not 2006 remake. These differences are very important. There’s no shouting for the drone to die. There is no mouth-breathing Cage-face. No, in Robin Hardy’s horror feature, the Wicker Man the build-up is about the story and not about the cast…

Texas Audience Members Were Drunk on Johnny Depp’s Rum Diary

Johnny Depp — yes, the Johnny Depp — was in Austin over the weekend for the Austin Film Festival, where the actor was honored with the first-ever “Extraordinary Contribution To Film — Acting Award.” Depp’s latest film, The Rum Diary — a screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s long lost…

The Rum Diary Needs More Punch

Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie — an oddly inoffensive piece and a personal project for its disconcertingly unengaged star Johnny Depp. The movie adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early ’60s and published, under…

Anonymous: Much Ado About Nothing

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare, the glover’s son-turned-actor from Stratford-upon-Avon — who, due to the troublesome existence of evidence, remains the general favorite. De Vere is the protagonist of Anonymous, a work of…

The Mixmaster’s Horror Movie Countdown, October 26: The Shining

Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King are a match made in scary, anxiety-inducing horror movie heaven. Oh, no wait. Actually, let’s make that perfect pairing a three-way with Jack Nicholson. Creepy Jack Nicholson, to be specific. The tale is a classic: Isolation (or near isolation) + malicious spirits + person of…

A-List: Dallas Episode 3: How Far the Fallout …

Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TVScene 1: We join last week’s Footloose pool party in progress. Stylist/future cartoon character Phillip continues to rage uncontrollably at having been pushed in the water by the doe-eyed RepubiChristian, Taylor. Taylor’s secret beau, Brokeback Levi, also got wet in the pushing,…

The Avengers Trailer Gets Sweded, Is Sorta Like The Justice League

Joss Whedon’s Avengers trailer arrived on iTunes on October 11. Since then, it was downloaded over 10 million-freaking times. The trailer’s pretty much a big candy-bag of film fun: Thor looks pretty with his flowing blonde hair, Iron Man playing Robert Downey says some hilarious-smart things, and explosion, explosion, explosion…

Dramatizing the Financial Crisis in Margin Call

Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at Occupy Wall Street, writer-director J.C. Chandor’s lifeless Margin Call depicts roughly 36 hours at an unnamed Manhattan investment firm at the dawn of the 2008 financial freak-out. Chandor’s debut feature audaciously asks us to empathize with obscenely overpaid risk analysts…

The Mixmaster’s Horror Movie Countdown, October 18: The Omen

OK, seriously. One of this movie’s taglines was/is “You have been warned.” Amazing. Also, if children creep you out in any way, Richard Donner’s 1976 antichrist fright-fest, The Omen, will really send you in a tailspin, because this tyke — Damien — is a tiny boy-suit-wearing devilchild. Literally. Oh, that…

The A-List: Dallas, Episode 2: Everybody Cut (Ashley) Footloose

Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TV Last night on The A-List: Dallas, our beautifully bitchy cast members (get acquainted here) cut loose at a Footloose-themed pool party. People were pushed in water, punches were thrown and potentially season-long beefs got beefier. Let’s dive in. Scene 1: Crazy-haired…