Ink’s Middle of the Map Film Fest, which opens Thursday night, will feature more than 25 films and documentaries, all at the Alamo Drafthouse. It’s the final event in the festival series that included a three-day music orgy in early April and a three-day art/culture/technology forum in mid-April.
The 2013 summer is shaping up nicely, with a fine batch of anticipated blockbusters. Sure, there are the requisite remakes, sequels, toy commercials and “reimaginings,” but even many of these have potential. Who doesn’t want to see Superman return, Brad Pitt battle zombies or Johnny Depp portray Tonto?
In her new film, “NV in KC,” artist Judith Levy presents a send-up of a fictional conceptual art project that involves ranking Kansas City artists and institutions.
“The Big Wedding” struggles to give its bloated, star-filled cast enough screen time to warrant their inclusion on the film’s promo poster. It is packed with purportedly smart characters making the sort of absurdly contrived decisions that haven’t been seen since “Three’s Company” went off the air.
The Kansas City Symphony, led by its assistant conductor, Aram Demirjian, will accompany the screening of classic clips from the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals in Helzberg Hall.
Robert Redford delivers one last lecture on ’60s idealism and passes another baton to Shia LaBeouf in “The Company You Keep,” an engrossing thriller about the last anti-Vietnam War radicals still underground.
Matthew McConaughey stars in an exotic stew that includes obsessive love, a woman unworthy of it, a criminal on the run and a coming-of-age tale.
Before it turns lighter and fizzier, Ken Loach’s latest offers a pungently realistic portrait of hopelessness and frustration, which explode in vicious street fighting and petty crime.
The Internet-infused alienation portrayed in an anonymous New York suburb is part of the pollution that permeates our culture.
This true story starring Mark Wahlberg is filled with nonstop noise and violence, right down to the mandatory exploding car.
Releases include ‘Mud,’ ‘The Company You Keep,’ ‘The Big Wedding’ and ‘Pain & Gain’
For decades, Rachel Robinson resisted a movie about her husband, Jackie Robinson, but now “42” has arrived. She approves, with tears of joy.
Harrison Ford says he really didn’t know much about baseball when he agreed to play the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Branch Rickey, but he knew a great role when he saw one on paper. Ford is coming to town Thursday for a special screening of “42,” the new film about Jackie Robinson, the Kansas City Monarch who broke major-league baseball’s color barrier.
Perhaps customer feedback about the cost of movie tickets finally worked at one multiplex operated by Kansas City-based AMC Entertainment. Prices at the Town Center in Leawood will drop $2 starting July 22, when the 20-screen multiplex ends its reserved-seating policy.
It’s never too soon for a Hollywood studio to start claiming prime opening dates for its films. In fact, the 2009 calendar already is a done deal. The heavy hitters are in place and gearing up marketing campaigns designed to separate you from your entertainment dollar.
Which of this week’s movies do you think will make the most money this weekend?
We were shocked — shocked! — to hear that some miscreant leaked a draft of Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun on the Internet.
FORKS, Wash. | Pounding rain and heavy mist are constant in this timber town where logging’s decline left a graveyard of rusting timber mills and unemployment. Businesses shut down. Parts of the local high school were condemned. Families started to drift away.
There can be only one” may be the motto of those crazy dudes with the big swords in the “Highlander” movies, but it’s also a philosophy embraced by Hollywood.
