Posts Tagged ‘charles’
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 15 Having served as prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003, the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien comes to TCU to discuss world affairs as part of the Vicente Fox Forum. His retirement hasn’t been uneventful; a few ...
Super 8: Lights, Camera, Alien!
This monster movie shows J.J. Abrams’ remarkable talent – and a few flaws.KRISTIAN LIN
I hate to be the dissenting voice on a movie everybody else seems to love, especially when I don’t think the movie’s bad at all. Super 8 is the first film J.J. Abrams has directed that’s from an original story rather than...
Superpowers Falter in the New X-Men
This reboot is just good enough in spots to disappoint you.KRISTIAN LIN
Well, crap. I had such high hopes for X-Men: First Class. The fifth entry in this loosely connected series features the return of Bryan Singer, the filmmaker behind the excellent first two X-Men movies, as a story writer and pr...
Inside Job: Forever Blowing Bubbles
Our financial system sucks. This documentary explains why.KRISTIAN LIN
“It is impossible to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
The Thing From Another World
GalleryThe ever-busy Linda Blackburn enjoys a solo exhibition at Artspace 111, having contributed to their Gallery Night show last month as well as the Painted Violins display at Bass Hall.
Windsor Knot
The show must go on, says The Queen, an excellent account of a monarchy in crisis.Kristian Lin
Honestly, I can’t imagine what British people must feel watching The Queen. The movie evokes the flood tide of emotions that washed over the U.K. in 1997: the surge of hope that accompanied Tony Blair’s election, the crushi...
Homing Instinct
Kristian LinI’ll start with a not terribly revealing confession: I managed to get through childhood without any meaningful contact with Lassie. I never read Eric Knight’s 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, and I never saw the 1943 Hollywood ...