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…
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 nominees for the cinematic super bowl, the 2012 Academy Awards, were announced yesterday, and as always there were a few of the year’s best pictures and performances that were left warming the bench by the all-powerful Academy. Martin Scorsese’s Hugo leads the game with 11 nods, beating out the…
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…
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…
The first weekend in January, and the month as a whole, is traditionally known as a kitchen sink for theatrical releases…unfortunately, it’s typically stuff that, at any other time of the year, would end up in the garbage disposal. Instead of the studio flipping the switch on it and going…
What a year it was at the movies! Just reflect for a second all the places we’ve traveled together on our cinematic voyages of 2011 in that theatrical transport known as film. Alternate worlds and realities. All over the map of our own. Forward to the future. Back in time…
It’s the biggest movie weekend of the year! Let’s check out the season’s offerings at the movie theater… Director David Fincher returns to his bloody roots a la Se7en and takes his own albeit unique stab at The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first in the late Stieg Larsson’s…
This weekend brings us the release of not one, not two, but three sequels, which also happen to be a few of the biggest cinematic adventures to hits theaters this holiday season! I hope you are the type to pay a visit to the snack bar on your movie theater…
New Year’s Eve (Wide Release) The latest ex-star-vaganza centered around a holiday a la Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve features more big names than a Jerry Lewis telethon. Directed by Gary Marshall (the aforementioned Valentine’s Day, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride), the film weaves together various stories of couples on NYE…
Michael Fassbender bares it all (pun intended) in the new NC-17 rated Shame, a tale of a sex addict living in New York co-written and directed by frequent collaborator Steve McQueen (Hunger). For Fassbender, who’s on the fast track to movie stardom with leading man roles in Inglourious Basterds, X-Men:…
Tuckered out form the tryptophan-induced turkey coma? Blacked out from the Black Friday shop-a-palooza? Adventure and escape awaits at the cinema. It’s a family friendly weekend at the theater for Thanksgiving weekend so round up the kiddos and the rest of your clan, because here’s what’s new at the movies…..
Twilight Saga stars Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Green, Nikki Reed, and Charlie Bewley — along with Breaking Dawn – Part 1 soundtrack artist Christina Perri — were in Big D last week to walk the red carpet, sign autographs, answer questions from fans, and just generally make dreams come true for…
The Date Movie You Can Sink Your Teeth Into The moment all you Twihards have been waiting for; the beginning of the end is here. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (try vamping that when you’ve got a mouth full of cookies) finally hits theaters this weekend, this…
“Action + Half-Naked Men = The Perfect Date Movie” The latest visually striking sword and sandals flick (a la 300) comes from director Tarsem Singh, the same guy who brought us The Cell and The Fall. So, what this means is, good or bad, you know that Immortals is going…
If you were anywhere in the vicinity of The Palladium last night, you would have thought that Elvis was in town by the extreme decibel of blood curdling screams. But oh no, the sheer Pallad-emonium was over something else undead; Twilight. The Cast & Music Tour for Twilight: Breaking Dawn…
Co-writer/director Drake Doremus is a bit of a film fest vet, having had most if not all of his features and shorts premiere at festivals. Two in fact at Sundance — 2010’s Douchebag and his latest, Like Crazy. But it was Crazy that earned Doremus one of the highest honors…
“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…
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…
There are so many Horror films to watch around All Hallow’s Eve (see previous 27 entries) but so few of them actually have to do with or take place on Halloween! John Carpenter’s iconic and classic Halloween (our film from October 1st that kicked off this whole spooky shebang) is…
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…
