Posts Tagged ‘film’
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...
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Laid-back filmmaker James Johnston is making big things happen.KRISTIAN LIN
If you’ve been around Fort Worth’s film festivals or screenings of local filmmakers’ work, you’ve probably seen James Johnston. The barrel-chested 38-year-old with a shaven head, scraggly beard, and tattoos running the ...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Incendies (R) A nominee for the 2010 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s play stars Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin and Maxim Gaudette as Canadian twins who travel to ...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Everything Must Go (R) The recipient of a surprise screening at last year’s Lone Star Film Festival, this drama stars Will Ferrell as an alcoholic, recently unemployed man who keeps his possessions out on his front l...
Thor: Good God Almighty
Can Kenneth Branagh make a comic book movie? Thertainly!KRISTIAN LIN
Everyone seems surprised that Kenneth Branagh is directing Thor. Well, I’m not. True, he made his name directing and starring in a string of cinematic Shakespeare adaptations in the 1990s, but his love for the classics always...
Happy Couples (More or Less)
Jumping the Broom trumps both Tyler Perry and Something Borrowed.KRISTIAN LIN
Wedding season is upon us. Can you stand it? After the big blowout nuptials in London dominated our TV screens last week, we have two movies about weddings this week, and next week another one arrives. (That’s the best one, b...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Beaver (PG-13) Jodie Foster directs and co-stars in this film about a business executive (Mel Gibson) who suffers a mental breakdown and communicates with the world solely through his beaver hand puppet. Also with ...
Bier Bullies
Big TicketThe Danish drama In a Better World won the 2010 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and it’s the sort of movie that tends to win that award, for all the good and bad that implies. While a transplanted Swedish doctor (Mikael...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (PG-13) Brandon Routh stars in this adaptation of Tiziano Sclavi’s comic book series about a supernatural private eye investigating crimes by vampires, werewolves, and zombies. Also with Sam ...
Film Shorts
Kristian LinOPENING: Super (NR) James Gunn’s black comedy stars Rainn Wilson as an ordinary man who sets out to fight crime as a masked superhero. Also with Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Michael Rooker, Linda Cardellini, and Nathan...