Ice Nine Kills is bringing technicolor thrash and cinemascope chaos to the Alamo City… Are you ready for two nights of theatrics, music and horror in the Heavy Metal Capital of the World? On Wednesday, Ice Nine Kills announced their new U.S. Headline Tour, The Silver Scream-A-Thon. This unprecedented tour…
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SXSW 2024: Backspot Review
By Miranda Rodriguez & Nick Rodriguez ‘Backspot’ Directed by D.W. Waterson Starring Devery Jacobs (“Reservation Dogs”), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Shannyn Sossamon (A Knight’s Tale), Kudakwashe Rutendo, Thomas Antony Olajide, Wendy Crewson *Editor’s Note: This review is the combined critiques from Miranda and Nick. Like the cheer films that came…
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Don’t Sleep on These Films at SXSW 2024
By Miranda Rodriguez & Nick Rodriguez So many films so little time. With a stacked lineup of 115 features there are many to choose from, but along with this comes the hard decision on what to watch. As amateur and aspiring filmmakers, we have been keeping a finger on the…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Air “2023”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Biographical Sports Drama/Stars: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker, Viola Davis, Matthew Maher, Julius Tennon, Tom Papa, Joel Gretsch, Gustaf Skarsgård, Barbara Sukowa, Jessica Green, Dan Bucatinsky/Runtime: 112 minutes I think it is safe to say that from the moment I…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves “2023”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Fantasy Heist Action Comedy/Stars: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant, Chloe Coleman, Daisy Head, Jason Wong, Rylan Jackson/Runtime: 134 minutes I think it is fairly safe to start this review off by saying that if there was ever an item in…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Casablanca
MPAA Rating: NR/ Genre: Romantic Drama/Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Curt Bois, Leonid Kinskey, Madeleine Lebeau, Joy Page, John Qualen, S. Z. Sakall (credited as S. K. Sakall), Dooley Wilson, Marcel Dalio, Helmut Dantine, Gregory Gaye, Torben Meyer, Corinna Mura,…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Cocaine Bear “2023”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Dark Comedy-Action-Horror/Stars: Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Christian Convery, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Margo Martindale, Ray Liotta, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Aaron Holliday, Matthew Rhys, Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Ayoola Smart, Kahyun Kim, Scott Seiss/Runtime: 95 minutes I think it is safe to start this…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Inception “2010”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Sci-Fi Action/Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Marion Cotillard, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas, Talulah Riley/Runtime: 148 minutes I think it is a pretty safe statement to make that, in the aftermath of the absolutely…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Gravity “2013”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller/Stars: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney; Voices of: Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen, Phaldut Sharma, Amy Warren, Basher Savage/Runtime: 91 minutes I think it can safely be said that, in the long and storied history of cinema and its iconic place amongst our culture, there is one particular…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Martian “2015”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Sci-Fi/Stars: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Mackenzie Davis, Benedict Wong, Donald Glover, Chen Shu, Eddy Ko/Runtime: 144 minutes In the long-ago year of 2015, iconic film helmer Sir Ridley Scott found himself…
