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…
Kristin Chenoweth, star of the upcoming GCB on ABC, was originally scheduled for a NasherSALON appearance on November 18. But filming a new television series means priority goes to, well, filming a new television series… Nasher Sculpture Center has sent word that to accommodate Chenoweth’s filming schedule, the event has…
“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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Not a baseball fan? Before you read my reasons why Psycho is a fantastic horror film, head on over to Angelika Film Center to get in line for a screening of the Hitchcock classic on the big screen (it starts at 8 p.m. in Dallas and 7 p.m. in Plano)…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
It’s debatable but there may not be another Horror film to embed itself so deeply in pop culture urban legends than Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It is safe to say that at least one time in your adolescent life you had a friend that had…
It’s hard to say which is more frightening — the idea of a murderer with no flesh (traditionally speaking) and fingerblades, or the idea that he only attacks in dreams. Wes Craven again took a basic horror outline and reworked it into something incredibly original and panic-inducing by providing details…
In the realm of horror film trailers that use hyperbole to sell their movie, Hellraiser is one of the very, very few that actually live up to the promises. “A nightmare unlike anything that you have witnessed”? Yep, that is true! When you’re talking Clive Barker’s 1987, debut film, it’s…
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…
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…
Back in the 1960s, there was a Milton Bradley board game called Mystery Date. Advertised during Saturday morning cartoons with a nifty jingle — “Open the doooooor for yooooour mystery date” — it was aimed at girls age 6 to 14. The game went like this: You took turns picking…
In honor of Paranormal Activity 3’s release this Friday, I’d like to take a look back to 2007 for the film that started it all: Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity. It may be hard to separate the film from the phenomenon only four years later, but I actually believe the series…
