Brought to you by the same folks who generated Toddlers in Tiaras, the new AMC reality show White Collar Brawlers is coming to Dallas searching for would-be stars. The webisode-turned-series follows three pairs of co-workers who, fed-up with the drudgery of office life, trade in their staplers and paychecks for…
There’s no doubt that by now you’ve either: A.) invested in an arsenal of cute & cuddly and/or chocolate-covered paraphernalia to lovingly smother your significant other with come Tuesday (yes, that’s when Valentine’s Day is in case you weren’t aware) or B.) are currently scrambling to find the most luxurious…
“He’s sooo hot,” the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film’s opening images of Ryan Reynolds working out flashed on the screen. She then went on to fiddle with her BlackBerry for half the movie. Based on those two…
Battle for Brooklyn is this year’s opener for Thin Line Film Fest, Denton’s celebration of documentary film production. Pulling a hefty load of 29 films, a combination of short works and features by local and international filmmakers, the fest stretches from this weekend through Monday, the 20th with a preemptive…
It’s hard out here for a pimp. By mid-week your hustle has slowed down to a shuffle and you can’t get a handle on your flow. That stack of reports on your desk keeps getting more oppressive and your afternoon conference call is a wild card, like a trick who…
Rampart isn’t a “date” film. Don’t be so blinded by the word “free” that you go home and tell the misses that the two of you should reconnect with a nice night out at the movies — unless you like the couch and she enjoys night terrors. Here’s the film’s…
Mockingbird Station parking lot. Level P2. Discovering this crappy Texas was, by far, the very best thing about seeing Haywire. Follow the Mixmaster on Twitter and Facebook…
Pina Bausch was more than a choreographer, her contributions to modern dance helped redefine the art form. After studying first in Germany and next at Julliard, she went on to perform with every major dance company that was lucky enough to get her, and eventually became artistic director of the…
Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror filmmaking. His little-seen apprenticeship cheapies (The Roost, Trigger Man) led to a disowned, freelance gross-out job (Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever) and then finally a name-above-the-title breakthrough…
A Separation — the fifth feature by Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi — is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box. Dispensing with preliminaries, it opens at a judicial hearing where, both facing the camera that stands in for the judge, a quarrelsome husband and…
Congratulations Lee Kounas and Zach Kaz! You won free tickets to see Rocky in 35mm at Texas Theatre! It begins showing tonight and plays through the weekend. Check in with Texas Theatre’s website for showtimes. Thanks to Texas Theatre for the tickets and to all of you who entered. Didn’t…
I love the original Rocky and Rocky II — things get weird around Rocky III and anything beyond that is just an unwatchable collection of montages with robot sidekicks and no Burgess Meredith. But that original film’s focus on the budding love between homely, but kind Adrian and the sweetly…
Anthony Mackie is one of those actors known as a “scene stealer.” With unforgettable roles in Half-Nelson, The Hurt Locker, 8 Mile (his debut), and more notable films than I can list, the 33-year-old actor has built up quite an impressive filmography in just ten years time. His latest film…
Liam Neeson has become quite the badass as of late (IMO he’s always been a badass…Darkman!), with machismo roles in Batman Begins, The A-Team, and of course Taken, in which he kills, like, more than 50 dudes with his bare hands in a manner that would make even Jack Bauer…
The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown hotel. The first, of course, is the predictable “just get it over with” impatience of New Yorkers impeded by police barricades. The second is unlikely…
Dallas ISD: School Zone Dallas Presents: Jerry Junkins Musical Production of Beauty and the Beast from Dallas Independent School Dist on Vimeo….when you can get this courtesy a DISD elementary? That’s got to be, like, at least 5Ds. Maybe more. Doesn’t It seem like they’re coming right at you? Follow…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Director: Stephen Daldry Writer: Eric Roth Condensed Cast: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn You may have heard about this one. Maybe because it’s already scooping up awards on it’s way to the Oscars (our own DFWFCA gave it 3rd in the year’s best pictures…
Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn’t like: After 2002’s The Hours, a lugubrious women’s-problem picture touching on AIDS and assisted suicide, he went to Auschwitz with 2008’s The Reader. Following two such high-toned literary adaptations with such hefty subject matter, Daldry’s logical next stop is…
There’s a point in Haywire when the film’s protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired muscle for a private government subcontractor, takes a fall while scaling down a drainpipe and hits the ground with a crunch that knocks the wind out of you. It’s…
Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother-in-law’s life. Millions of dollars in counterfeit…
It’s 1992 at the start of In the Land of Blood and Honey, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up at a Bosnian nightclub when they’re interrupted by a bomb blast. A few months later, Ajla is one of dozens of women rounded up…
A mushroom cloud blooms over Manhattan at the opening of The Divide. We see it reflected in the tearful eyes of Eva (Lauren German), who’ll spend much of the subsequent movie watching and waiting. She and eight other building residents, including her French fiancé, Sam (Iván González), manage to get…
