Posts Tagged ‘girls’
DVD Review: “Damsels in Distress”
Kristian LinThis is how big a Whit Stillman fan I am: I saw his Metropolitan as a teenager. (Weirdly enough, it was broadcast on local TV while it was running in theaters in New York.) I was so taken with the movie and its teenage heroine,...
Drewe Lies
Big TicketPeople don’t usually think of graphic novels as a medium for delicate literary satire, but that’s what Posy Simmonds accomplished when she wrote Tamara Drewe, which has now been turned into a dense and funny comedy film. It...
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A heavy dose of feminist theory is what you’ll be getting at Gallery 414’s current show.
For Colored Girls: “Sing a Black Girl’s Song”
The Tyler Perry treatment mars a trailblazing play.KRISTIAN LIN
The mere existence of For Colored Girls is encouraging, though it would be unremarkable if we lived in a better world. African-American actresses have been historically under-represented in movies, so it’s nice to have a film...
Despicable Me: One to Gru On
A supervillain isn’t so bad, and neither is this animated film.KRISTIAN LIN
The trailer for Inception has caused a stir in movieland by being mysterious and not giving away too much of the movie’s plot. Well, the trailers for the animated 3-D kids’ movie Despicable Me have been playing in theaters ...
Fungi Girls: All Hyped Up
The Cleburne teens have a lot to live up to, which is saying something.COLE GARNER HILL
Fame, sex, the power to demand Maine lobster tail at 3 a.m. — everyone starts a band with some sort of dream in mind. All Cleburne’s Fungi Girls have ever wanted is to be taken seriously. One look at the trio (of guys — t...
Sex and the City 2: Hanging On
Despite bad writing, the franchise keeps its buddy-buddy heart.COLE WILLIAMS
Sex and the City 2 picks up two years after the first, with the wedding of Stanford (Willie Garson) and Anthony (Mario Cantone), Carrie’s and Charlotte’s gay best friends. Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and John “...
Pedro + Penélope
KRISTIAN LINAt this point, Pedro Almodóvar truly seems incapable of making a bad movie. I can’t think of any other great filmmaker working today about whom I can say that. Who would have figured on that in the early 1990s, when Almo...
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GalleryOther artists use brushes or pens, but California-based Lia Cook uses an electronic Jacquard loom to create her fiber works that depict girls’ faces. These are on display through the next few days at UNT Art Gallery.
Riding in Cars With Boys
America Ferrera can’t keep this Latino indie drama from falling flat.Kristian Lin
Recent movies as different as Danny Cannon’s Goal!
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