Filmmakers looking to get their projects included in the 2012 DALLAS International Film Festival can now submit those films for consideration… .

In a perfect world, there is no crime, no disease. In a perfect world, we are at peace at the personal level, the global level and every level in between. In a perfect world, no good deed goes unrewarded, nice guys finish first and true love conquers all. In a perfect world, John Carpenter never [...]

“Poetry” could easily play as half of a double-feature with “Mother,” as the two films are thematically and narratively similar.  It doesn’t hurt that they are also both spectacular films, and South Korean (the land of a great deal of spectacular cinema these days).  But if “Mother” seemed oddly thriller-driven and uglier for having shown [...]

Red Carpet Crash is pleased to have produced the live stream of the 2011 Dallas Film Society Honors, allowing everyone to take part in the festivities from Union Station. It was a stellar way to cap off almost two weeks of the best film has to offer, with North Texas becoming the epicenter of the [...]

“…And here came the victim’s sisters, to defend his honor…with a butcher knife.” This statement, early in Steve James’ piercing documentary “The Interrupters,” is made by Ameena, one of a team of “violence interrupters” working for the Chicago-based CeaseFire program.  Started in 2004, CeaseFire isn’t as interested in breaking up gangs or preventing drug use, [...]

Red Carpet Crash is pleased to team up with TXU Energy and NewTek to present live streaming coverage of the 2011 Dallas Film Society Honors on Friday, April 8 from Union Station in downtown Dallas…

Up until now, Russell Brand has been famous for being a personality more than a movie star. He’s had moderate success with two films, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him To The Greek”, in which he played the same rock star character. There is no doubt that “Arthur” (also produced by Brand) is the movie [...]

After watching “Small Town Murder Songs,” one wishes the technical failures that delayed the screening for close to a half-hour would have been permanent.  I’m sure “The Presence,” playing next door and offered as part of the kindly DIFF staff’s make-up attempt, would have been far more enjoyable. Called a “gothic” tale, “Songs” is nothing [...]

I’m not exactly a horse guy, so I wondered if the subject matter of Wild Horse, Wild Ride would be of exculsive interest to those who are emotionally invested in the subject matter. It turns out, once again, that in the documentary film genre, good storytelling rules the day. Directors Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus [...]

Last night, while sitting in on the live DallasFest After Dark, DIFF Artistic Director James Faust let slip a little knowledge that had been a closely-guarded secret: the Closing Night Film for the 2011 DALLAS International Film Festival, John Landis’ “Burke and Hare.” The twisted comedy stars Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg as a pair [...]