Houston Chronicle: Movies

The previews for "Peter Rabbit" were a chopped salad of juvenile slapstick, pop music and sudden loud noises - as distant from Beatrix Potter's lovely "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" as an English country garden in a Chuck E.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMA
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"Zoolander"
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the prime minister of Malaysia. 7:30 p.m. Thursday
"Moulin Rouge!"
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Houston Jewish Film Festival returns for a 16-day run March 3-18 with two films that have made a lot of noise on the film festival circuit, "Menashe" and "The Wedding Plan."

"Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool"
Age is just a number, right? That's the philosophy of a mature Hollywood actress, who used to be a leading lady, named Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) and young, up-and-coming actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell) as they fall in love despite society's strictures.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The former Spanish movie set responsible for several American Wild West films in the 1960s and '70s doesn't look the same following a tornado that swept over the imaginary town on January 10.

So things really aren't going well, not one bit. The apocalypse has more or less happened. Most cities are destroyed. And there's a virus going around, and three-quarters of the people on Earth are infected.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The WorldFest Houston Film Festival, held every April, is moving to a new location: the 16-screen Cinemark Memorial City Theater in west Houston.

In "Phantom Thread," Daniel Day-Lewis plays an imperious and eccentric fashion designer named Reynolds Woodcock in 1950s London in the years after World War II. His character approaches fashion as a religion that requires silence and solitude.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It's the 25th anniversary of the Houston Iranian Film Festival and it comes at an appropriate time.
Iran is elbowing its way back into the headlines with protesters taking to the streets to challenge the hardline regime while the Trump administration is making it clear that it ultimately wants to rip up the Iranian nuclear deal.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

"The Post" has all the earmarks of a VERY IMPORTANT MOVIE.
It stars the queen and king of importance, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, who between them don't have enough fingers and toes to tally their Oscar nominations.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share