Movies
John Wayne: “Lone Star” Films
Jimmy FowlerThis Sunday (Jan 15) at 2pm, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History will screen the 1934 movie Randy Rides Alone as part of its John Wayne: Lone Star Westerns film series. The main thing you need to know is that veteran ...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2011
Kristian LinI’ve done this before, and it’s rapidly becoming my favorite blog post of the year: I’ve compiled this list sampling the best dialogue I heard in the past year’s movies. I had access to the published shootin...
The Best Lead Performances of 2011
Kristian LinAssembling the photos for this blog post made me painfully aware that there are no actors of color on this list. I’m not happy about it, either, but I just couldn’t bring myself to list Viola Davis in The Help just ...
Breakout Talents of 2011′s Movies
Kristian LinPlease note that some of the filmmakers and actors who announced their presence in 2011 are included in the other posts citing notable achievements in film. Richard Ayoade Fans of British sitcoms might know him for portraying a...
The Best Supporting Actors of 2011′s Movies
Kristian LinThe list of best lead performances of 2011 is forthcoming. In the meantime, without further ado… Albert Brooks It’s hard to discuss his performance in Drive without giving too much away, but there’s no wonder why even...
The Top 10 Documentaries of 2011
Kristian LinYou’ll note that no documentaries made my list of Top 10 movies this year, but that’s not because this was a bad year for docs. On the contrary, I saw a bunch of great nonfiction films this year, but I found myself at a los...
The Best Movies of 2001
Kristian LinI was late with this feature last year, so I’m not repeating that slip-up this year. Here, with the added perspective of 10 years, are my picks for the best films of 2001. For reference, back in December ’01, I picked the f...
The Top 250 Films of 2011
Kristian LinLet’s be totally ridiculous for a moment. Since the whole concept of ranking the top 10 movies of the year is an arbitrary exercise to begin with, let’s take the ridiculousness of it to an extreme. I thought I’...
“Midnight in Paris” and DFW’s Film Critics
Kristian LinLast week the DFW Film Critics Association (of which I am a voting member) published its annual list of the best movies of 2011. I won’t get into which films were on my ballot and which ones made me wonder what my fellow ...
Ten DVD Reviews
Kristian LinAs is usual this time of year, I’ve been watching dozens of movies on disc that I didn’t have a chance to see in the theaters or write about in our pages. Many of them turned out not to deserve inclusion on any year-end awa...