Do you dare go toe-to-toe with PREDATORS (2010)?
Dir. Nimród Antal
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 7/8/2010, 7:30
[Warning: CONTAINS SPOILERS!]
Predators doesn’t waste any time getting straight into the action. Though it does not begin en media res, it surely begins “in the middle of things.” The film opens on a free falling Adrien Brody who, after waking from unconsciousness, pounds at the beeping, glowing, Iron [...]
Better Than Worse: Reviewing BEST WORST MOVIE (2010)
Dir. Michael Stephenson
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 4/24/2010, 10:30pm
I’ve been seeing goblins around town lately, big-eyed, snarl-toothed, potato sack-wearing (sometimes, bikini-clad) goblins. This can only mean that Best Worst Movie, the documentary about the famed film flop turned cult classic Troll 2, has come back to Austin. BWM had its world premiere at last year’s SXSW [...]
Burton’s ALICE, A Not-so-Wonder(ful)land – Reviewing ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010)
Dir. Tim Burton
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 3/6/10, 10:00pm
Just a few weeks after declaring myself a Burton and Depp nut on assignment #4 I found myself face to face with one of my most anticipated films of 2010. Tim Burton’s latest fairy tale is yet another remake of a beloved childhood adventure. He’s done Dahl. He’s [...]
SHUTTER ISLAND (2010) a film not without its flaws
Dir. Martin Scorsese
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 2/19/2010, 10:10pm
Remember back to 1974. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway stand toe to toe, stitched nose to button nose, in a sun drenched LA living room. Nicholson’s JJ Gittes has had enough, and he’s determined to slap the identity of a mysterious young blonde out of Ms. Dunaway’s Mrs. [...]
A castrated vampire means incised incisors: DAYBREAKERS (2009)
Dir. Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 1/15/10, 7:00pm
Polish your crucifix and sharpen your stakes! Vampires, vampires everywhere! That’s the premise for Daybreakers (2009), the latest fanged feature in a growing vampire film cycle popular the world over. The product of twin brothers writing/directing duo Michael and Peter Spierig, Daybreakers does a nice [...]
THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL – NEW ORLEANS (2009)
Dir. Werner Herzog
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 12/14/09, 7:20pm
Everything’s coming up aces for newly appointed Lt. Terrence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) in Werner Herzog’s latest narrative about a New Orleans police lieutenant with a bad streak (to put it lightly).
