Posts Tagged ‘film’
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Lincoln Lawyer (R) Matthew McConaughey stars in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel as a defense attorney who tries to save a scion of wealth (Ryan Phillippe) from a murder charge. Also with Marisa Tomei,...
Limitless: One Pill Makes You Smarter
Get a dose of this brainy science-fiction flick.KRISTIAN LIN
The diabolically clever science-fiction film Limitless begins with Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper), a wannabe New York writer who’s been creatively blocked for several years. After his girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) finally cu...
To Hollywood And Back
How a Fort Worth boy turned a newspaper clipping into a major motion picture — and lived to tell about it.STEVE MCVICKER
“The movie business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Battle: Los Angeles (PG-13) Aaron Eckhart and Bridget Moynahan star in this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller about a U.S. Marine battalion trying to survive in the face of a global invasion by an alien race. Also with Miche...
Mars Needs Moms: Empty Wells
This animated sci-fi kids’ flick goes wrong in many ways.KRISTIAN LIN
Last week, we had the incredible burst of experimentalism that was Rango, a defiantly old-school 2-D animated film that nevertheless ventured fearlessly into territory untapped by kids’ movies. This week, Mars Needs Moms, a 3...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Marwencol (R) The opening night selection at last year’s Lone Star International Film Festival, Jeff Malmberg’s documentary profiles Mark Hogancamp, a brain-damaged man who becomes famous as an artist by building a...
Cowboys and Amphibians
Yee-haw! A strange animated Western leads this week’s films.KRISTIAN LIN
This week’s films all trade in outright fantasy, but only one of them succeeds in turning the tropes of fable and science fiction into a bizarre and wondrous alternate reality.
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Drive Angry 3D (R) Nicolas Cage stars as a man who escapes from Hell to take revenge on the men who have killed his daughter (Arianne Martin) and kidnapped his granddaughter. Also with Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Bi...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
And the Oscar goes to … that guy. An analysis of the awards’ not-so-major categories.KRISTIAN LIN
Welcome to my fourth annual look at the mid-major categories of the annual Academy Awards (to be televised Sunday) It’s my way of pointing out who did the best work last year in these aspects of filmmaking that immeasurably a...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Barney’s Version (R) Paul Giamatti stars in this adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s comic novel as a Canadian TV producer who gets into trouble looking for love. Also with Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Rosamund Pike...