Posts Tagged ‘film’
New Visions
Based on the debut last weekend of the Lone Star International Film Festival, good cinematic things are in store for the Fort.Kultur
One of the best things about the Lone Star International Film Festival, presented by the Lone Star Film Society, is that the festival’s inaugural outing last week was true to the “Lone Star” and “International” portio...
Lone Star Movie Stars
Big TicketIt’s finally here, ladies and gentlemen. After years of a cultural scene without a film festival to its name, Fort Worth finally gets back on the horse when the first Lone Star International Film Festival takes place downtown...
Unoriginal Gangster
Ridley Scott tries to make the Citizen Kane of crime flicks and falls short.Kristian Lin
The shortcomings of American Gangster are right there in the title. It’s the latest film by Ridley Scott, a director who long ago was pegged as a mythmaker.
The Other Elizabeth
Cate Blanchett returns for a royally disappointing sequel about England’s queen.Kristian Lin
In 1998, an Indian director and his Australian leading lady collaborated on Elizabeth, a chilling historical drama that brought their largely unknown names to the world’s attention.
Half-Baked Alaska
Sean Penn’s Into the Wild sure runs long, but it never seems big enough.Kristian Lin
In a fitful and fitfully effective sidelight as a director, Sean Penn has been trying to make Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild into a film ever since its publication in 1996.
Desert Dogs
High-falootin’ scootin’ shootin’ sons of guns from Arizona hold up the 3:10 to Yuma.Kristian Lin
3:10 to Yuma began life as a Western short story written by Elmore Leonard in 1953, before he made his reputation writing crime fiction.
Black Screens
Big TicketThe term “film noir” was invented by French critics in the late 1950s as a label for a set of movies that Hollywood started making in the ’40s.
Problem Kids
Mixed success is the name of the game for three movies out this week.Kristian Lin
It’s fun to extol good movies and trash bad ones, but an awful lot of stuff falls in between those poles.
1.83 Meters Under
British rotters run round and round in the repellent Death at a Funeral.Kristian Lin
What’s more depressing than a farce that isn’t funny? Uh, war, famine, poverty, reruns of bad reality TV shows, a few other things.
Evan Almighty
A late-night booze run fuels the inspiration for the superb Superbad.Kristian Lin
I see it clearly now: 2007 will go down as the year that Seth Rogen arrived.