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The Hobbit Line Parties, Marathons and Other Ways Dallas Can Return to Middle Earth
December 07, 2012 in The Mixmaster
The Hobbit> opens next week, but the nerdy fun begins this weekend.With Peter Jackson's return to Middle Earth hitting theaters next week (read our review of it here), here are...
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Remembering Tony Scott: The Most Memorable Film Moments
August 20, 2012 in The Mixmaster
IMDBThe film world lost a great auteur last night, as Tony Scott - director of such classics like Top Gun and True Romance - tragically took his own life at...
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The ParaNorman Directors Tell Us Their Favorite Horror Films, Do Zombie Impressions
August 17, 2012 in The Mixmaster
See also: The Films Opening in Dallas This Week If you're a lifelong horror fan like me, then ParaNorman is your kind of haunt. Chocked full of 70s/80s genre nostalgia, homages...
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Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis Came to Ft. Worth to Promote The Campaign, and We Asked About Cold-Cocking Babies
August 09, 2012 in The Mixmaster
While promoting their new film The Campaign, funny men Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis stopped by Ft. Worth's Naval Air Station to salute the troops, participate in an old fashioned...
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Jeremy Renner Came to Dallas to Talk Bourne Legacy, so We Briefly Nerded Out with Him
August 08, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Jeremy seemed sort of paranoid when we met him at the hotel.Jeremy Renner has been mighty busy of late: Already a two-time Oscar nominee for 2008 Best Picture winner The...
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Opening This Weekend: Beasts of the Southern Wild Shows That Swamp Magic
July 06, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Beasts of the Southern Wild may be director Benh Zeitlin's first feature film, but it certainly doesn't feel like it. Aside from winning four awards at Cannes and the Grand...
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Chris Pine and Alex Kurtzman's New Film, People Like Us, Gets Personal.
July 03, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Chris Pine, not being chased by CGI monsters, in People Like Us.There's no doubt that you know the name Chris Pine. He is of course the leading man who made...
Jason Reimer, Erik Steele and Barak Epstein: The Reel Man
June 29, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Spider-Man Spotted at Walmart: Geek Out Before The Movie Drops
June 15, 2012 in The Mixmaster
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Your Guide to This Weekend's Oak Cliff Film Fest: Movies, Panels, Assassins.
June 12, 2012 in The Mixmaster
This week, the first-ever Oak Cliff Film Festival kicks off in and around the Bishop Arts District. According to Texas Theatre/OCFF co-founder Barak Epstein, the fest is intended to be...
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Top Ten Movies Filmed in Dallas/Fort Worth
June 08, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Do you ever ask yourself what major motion pictures have been produced in your own backyard? Well, so did we and it was pretty surprising what we dug our of...
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The Five Best Films Ever Labeled NC-17
May 18, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Warning: This editorial is rated NC-17 due to awesomeness and some brief mention of the word _____ (Editor's Note: Apologies, but this word has been removed to withhold the sanctity...
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5 Things It Will Kill You To Miss at Texas Frightmare Weekend
May 03, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Don't miss out on the new film by Asylum!Being a huge Horror hound, not to mention Texas Frightmare Weekend veteran, my general advice would be to see and do everything!...
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Why Our Favorite Indie Film House Will Screen The Avengers
May 02, 2012 in The Mixmaster
See it in 35mm at Texas TheatreThe 81-year-old Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff may be known historically as the movie house that Howard Hughes built or the scene where police...
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Texas Frightmare Weekend Takes Over A New Haunt
May 01, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Don't miss the panel for They Live; Roddy's gonna be there.If you're a gore geek like me or even just the general lover of the Horror genre, you're going to...
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Peter Lord's (Wallace and Gromit) New Film Opens Today. We've Got An Interview.
April 27, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Forty years ago this month, Peter Lord - along with his producing partner David Sproxton - didn't realize the legacy they were beginning when they assembled clay figurines on a...
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11 Must-See DIFF Films: Trust Us, We're Professionals.
April 12, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Josh Radner in his new film Liberal ArtsThe Dallas 2012 Dallas International Film Festival kicks off its boots tomorrow and starts that film ferris wheel a-rolling for 11 days of...
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Top Five '90s Teen Movies In Honor Of American Pie Reunion
April 06, 2012 in The Mixmaster
It's kind of hard to believe that it's been more than a decade since my mom bought my friends and I tickets to American Pie, on accounts of us being...
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The 11 Greatest Movies Born From Television Shows
March 16, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Adaptations of TV shows on the silver screen is nothing new (1966's Batman with the original caped crusader, Adam West, and 1955's Marty with Ernest Borgnine are two early ones...
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Dallas Youth Go Ballistic For The Cast Of Hunger Games. Hot Topic Gets Ransacked.
March 09, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Starving, stark raving Hunger Gamers commandeered the Galleria Dallas last night, fiending for just a glimpse of Josh Hutercherson (Peeta), Isabelle Fuhrman (Clove) and Jacqueline Emerson (Foxface) - a few...
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Will Ferrell Came To Dallas, Spoke Spanish. Como Se Dice "Awesome"?
March 08, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Ferrell and Keith, kickin' it.Renaissance man Will Ferrell was stopped by SMU last night on his way down to SXSW to give one lucky audience a peek at his new,...
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Oscar Sunday is Coming. Here's Your Definitive List Of Winners.
February 24, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Hollywood's brightest stars will twinkle this Sunday for the 84th annual Academy Awards, to pay their respects to the best films of 2011 ... at least the "best films" to...
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Show Her You Care: Be The Han Solo to Her Leia
February 10, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Insert lightsaber joke here.There's no doubt that by now you've either: A.) invested in an arsenal of cute & cuddly and/or chocolate-covered paraphernalia to lovingly smother your significant other with come...
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Man on a Ledge's Anthony Mackie Talks With Mixmaster
January 27, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Anthony Mackie is one of those actors known as a "scene stealer." With unforgettable roles in Half-Nelson, The Hurt Locker, 8 Mile (his debut), and more notable films than I...
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Top 5 Man vs. Nature Survival Films, in Honor of The Grey
January 27, 2012 in The Mixmaster
Liam Neeson has become quite the badass as of late (IMO he's always been a badass...Darkman!), with machismo roles in Batman Begins, The A-Team, and of course Taken, in which...
