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…
DIFF Review: ‘Arthur’
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 [...]
Landis’ ‘Burke and Hare’ Closes DALLAS IFF
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 [...]
DIFF REVIEW: ‘Robot’
Director S. Shankar’s highly ambitious Indian film ‘Robot’ makes America’s Michael Bay look like a student filmmaker. Beware of the eye-saccharine. The two-and-a-half hour film is an epic futuristic tale of romance and robots. Dr. Vaseegaran (Rajnikanth) is a brilliant scientist who creates a doppelgänger android prototype for the Indian government to consider using in [...]
DIFF REVIEW: ‘The Last Circus’
A bloody, ultraviolent adventure that is both grindhouse and art describes Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia’s latest film…
DIFF REVIEW: ‘Robot’
“Robot” may just be the strangest entry in DIFF’s 2011 schedule, and perhaps the one that requires the most effort on the part of the audience. Starting off as a science-fiction melodrama rounded off with moments of slapstick, it turns into a cyber-tinged romantic comedy and then a drama about the human condition with insane [...]
DIFF REVIEW: ‘The Legends Of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy’
Not all historical epics have to be sprawling, prosaic, multi-hour explorations of time and tide. Sometimes, a story can be told with minimal pomp and circumstance, swiftly, without the sense of reverential duty that sometimes can weigh down a film, robbing it of the significance it strives for, and it’s entertainment value. History isn’t a [...]
DIFF REVIEW: ‘Norman Mailer: The American’
If “Norman Mailer: The American” seems like a coarse film, then it at least suitably matches its subject. An author, filmmaker, activist and overall blowhard, Mailer is called “narcissistic,” “confident,” “arrogant,” “a literary rock star,” “mad as a hatter” and a “devoted family man.” What he is never called is shy or forgiving. For the [...]
DIFF REVIEW: ‘The Greater Good’
As a hot button issue, childhood vaccination has cooled off, thanks to widely-publicized scientific studies and the testimony of experts in the field. “The Greater Good,” which had its world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival yesterday, seeks to heat things up — but not to the boiling point. Governor Rick Perry came under [...]
DIFF REVIEW: ‘Parked’
It begins with a leaf, the rolling sea, and what appears to be melancholy. But “Parked” is filled with lovely, endearing stuff; it’s the kind of film that takes a down and out character and immediately offers him all the best possibilities: friendship, a purpose, and maybe even love. And it does so without resorting [...]
