Motion Picture Production and Distribution

Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

And Where Will You See Tron on Friday?

​I couldn't make the Tron: Legacy press screening a few days back -- they keep me chained to the desk these days. Besides, the 7-year-old who lives in my house wants to see it, even if he does find (the great?) Steven Lisberger's original '82 film "a little boring and confusing," as he put it when ... More >>

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax Coming to Dallas on June 22. Sort Of.

On June 22nd, a concert billed as The Big Four and featuring a quartet of legendary metal acts can be seen in Dallas. Not at any concert venue, mind you, but at several area movie theaters.The actual concert featuring Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax will take place in, of all places, Bulgari ... More >>

Support The Draft...And The Arts

New Century Brewing president and CEO Rhonda Kallman, a Beer Wars subject and discussion panelist.A dozen theaters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be part of tonight's nationwide screening of Anat Baron's documentary Beer Wars, a David vs. Goliath tale about the struggles of independent craft bre ... More >>

Coming (At You) Soon

Jeffrey Katzenberg's cure-all for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensions

Are You Still Celebrating the Willenium? Then Are You Ever in Luck, Dallas!

After the jump, the complete details on how to meetlook at Will Smith on Tuesday, when the formerly Fresh Prince comes to Dallas to not only sneak his latest feelgood redemption story, Seven Pounds, but to help fill the North Texas Food Bank's pantry before Thanksgiving. The trailer's also after ... More >>

It Took a Baghead to Prove Dallas is Hipper Than New York City

After the jump, the complete details on how to meetlook at Will Smith on Tuesday, when the formerly Fresh Prince comes to Dallas to not only sneak his latest feelgood redemption story, Seven Pounds, but to help fill the North Texas Food Bank's pantry before Thanksgiving. The trailer's also after ... More >>

DVD Releases for the Week of February 12

After the jump, the complete details on how to meetlook at Will Smith on Tuesday, when the formerly Fresh Prince comes to Dallas to not only sneak his latest feelgood redemption story, Seven Pounds, but to help fill the North Texas Food Bank's pantry before Thanksgiving. The trailer's also after ... More >>

DVD Releases for the Week of January 8

After the jump, the complete details on how to meetlook at Will Smith on Tuesday, when the formerly Fresh Prince comes to Dallas to not only sneak his latest feelgood redemption story, Seven Pounds, but to help fill the North Texas Food Bank's pantry before Thanksgiving. The trailer's also after ... More >>

Jennifer Aniston to Make Texas Girls-in-Prison Pic. Dreams, You Have Been Answered.

After the jump, the complete details on how to meetlook at Will Smith on Tuesday, when the formerly Fresh Prince comes to Dallas to not only sneak his latest feelgood redemption story, Seven Pounds, but to help fill the North Texas Food Bank's pantry before Thanksgiving. The trailer's also after ... More >>

Flick It

Your guide to summer's hottest films

Blockbuster Almost Done Making "Triple Play." Didn't That Star Billy Baldwin?

Your guide to summer's hottest films

In Small Doses

The Modern hosts some splendid shorts

C'mon Gang!

We know you'll catch that villain

Kickin' the Tires

Pixar's latest is no lemon, but it does have that used-Cars smell

Our top DVD picks for the week of April 11

Pixar's latest is no lemon, but it does have that used-Cars smell

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 7

Pixar's latest is no lemon, but it does have that used-Cars smell

Our top DVD picks for the week of January 17.

Pixar's latest is no lemon, but it does have that used-Cars smell

The Reel Truth

Hollywood Claims the Sky is Falling. To Which We Say Puh-lease.

Dallas Observer's top DVD picks for the week of September 15

Hollywood Claims the Sky is Falling. To Which We Say Puh-lease.

Animal Crackers

In Madagascar, the wild things romp, then roam

Fortunate Son

Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

Talkin' 'Bot Love

Like Big Fish for little kids, Robots works hard to please everyone

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Nice Pussy

A killer cat steals a wonderful movie from a kindly ogre

Advance Screening

Pssst, wanna see a movie that isn't out yet...legally?

Kung Fu'd

Or, what does Miramax have against Asian films?

The Nokia Unwired Tour

October 21

Undersea No Evil

Parents, take heart: Finding Nemo is better than the average Disney 'toon

Deep Freeze

In the Ice Age, three mammals and a baby try to keep us warm

Small Screen, Big Step

DEJ Productions tries to give "direct-to-video" a good name

Behind the Screens

As president of Texas-financed Magnolia Pictures, respected indie-film vet Eamonn Bowles projects a bright future

The Art (House) of War

The Magnolia Theatre promises to shake up Dallas' indie-film scene

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Poppins Fresh

Kinda like The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Best IMAX theater (tie)

Cinemark 17 & The Science Place

Good buzz

Toy Story 2 is the rare sequel worthy of the original

Self

Toy Story 2 is the rare sequel worthy of the original

Reel power

Dallas-based Regent Entertainment vies to become a Hollywood player, and it's off to an Oscar-winning start

Lights,Camera, No Action

Austin is now the undisputed movie capital of Texas, but Dallas filmmakers insist there's no reason to panic

Asian invasion

As the Hong Kong movie industry collapses, scads of Chinese filmmakers and actors are landing big jobs in Hollywood

The music man

Lenny Waronker is a rock-biz legend, but is that enough to make DreamWorks Records a success?

Making a mountain out of an anthill

The craftsmen at Pixar delight with the inventive and enchanting A Bug's Life

Second time as farce

From Dusk Till Dawn documentary is more fun than the real thing

Puberty blues

Writer-director Todd Solondz doesn't play games in Welcome to the Dollhouse

Letters

Writer-director Todd Solondz doesn't play games in Welcome to the Dollhouse

Dallas' lawyer joke

A legal comedy of errors led to a $5 million tragedy for the city

Luna landing

Chris Luna's deceitful public-service career finally hits bottom

Dirty words

Kids director Larry Clark discusses the volatile combination of movies and teen sex

Rushes

Kids director Larry Clark discusses the volatile combination of movies and teen sex