Movies
Arlington Director Makes Competition
Jimmy FowlerCongrats to the prodigiously talented Arlington filmmaker Frank Mosley, profiled last year in the “Weekly.” His feature film “Hold” has been selected for official competition by both the 2010 Dallas International Film F...
Try the Sukiyaki at KinoMonda
Kristian LinI wasn’t able to give the movie the play that I wanted to on our Night & Day page, but anybody who shares my love of movies that are balls-to-the-wall crazy should check out Sukiyaki Western Django tomorrow night at ...
“The Breakfast Club” Needs More Fiber
Jimmy FowlerI caught about 45 minutes of a predictably predictable Oscar telecast and learned one thing: I’m really freakin’ old. That was the message sent by last night’s creaky celebrity tribute to 1980s teen drama king John H...
Iran Arrests Filmmaker
Kristian LinOh, this can’t be good. The reports coming out of Iran say that movie director Jafar Panahi has been detained at an undisclosed location along with his wife and 15 people at his house. Panahi is a supporter of Iranian opp...
Winter Olympic Thoughts (the Games close)
Kristian LinIn the last event of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Sidney Crosby scored an overtime goal for Team Canada to beat USA in the gold medal hockey match. Well, that just makes sense. Sid the Kid didn’t actually get on the scoresheet m...
Arts Lovers
Jimmy FowlerA major theme in Circle Theatre’s current production of Michael Hollinger’s “Opus” – to be reviewed next week – is how romance can fuel, frustrate, and fuck up artistic creativity. In a much lighter and more frivolo...
“Fearless” in 2010
Jimmy FowlerNorth Texas filmmakers have a little less than a month to submit their short flicks (20 minutes or less, please) for the fourth annual ”Fearless Film Festival,” which runs April 10 & 11 as part of the 2010 Main St. Fort...
FW Director Wins Top Prize
Jimmy FowlerCongrats to Fort Worth writer-director Tom Huckabee for winning ”Best Narrative Feature” at this weekend’s seventh annual Oxford Film Festival in Mississippi for his dark comedy ”Carried Away.” (“The Scenesters,”...
The Best Actors of 2009 (Non-Oscar edition)
Kristian LinI’m doing something different this year for my list of the best acting performances. I figured that you don’t need me to tell you about the greatness of the three principals in Up in the Air or Christoph Waltz in Inglouriou...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2009
Kristian LinThis post is for anyone who sat through the Transformers sequel and concluded that film writing is dead. I was privileged enough to see many other movies feature excellent dialogue, so I’m presenting some of my favorite piece...