Posts Tagged ‘movie’
Narrative Voice
It’s Stranger Than Fiction when your main character hears he’s going to die.KRISTIAN LIN
I can safely say that Stranger Than Fiction is stranger than your average movie.
Stray Shot
Spanning the globe, Babel contains at least three movies. One’s really good.Kristian Lin
Supposedly director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have parted ways over the issue of authorial credit for the three films they’ve collaborated on.
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...
Slugging It Out
Nick Park’s animation company goes digital, but something essential is Flushed Away.Kristian Lin
If Flushed Away looks familiar, there’s no mystery to it. The movie’s a product of Aardman Animation, the British outfit that has turned out Chicken Run and the Wallace & Gromit films. The medium here is pixels rather ...
If I Were a Queen
Maybe Marie Antoinette didn’t deserve the guillotine. Her new movie certainly doesn’t.Kristian Lin
Sofia Coppola’s third film, Marie Antoinette comes trailing bad buzz from Cannes this past summer, where a largely French crowd greeted it with boos and hisses. It’s easy to see what they didn’t like. The director’s les...
Politically Incorrect
Man of the Year suffers from dull satire, and then it really goes bad.Kristian Lin
There are many things wrong with Man of the Year, but the basic premise isn’t one of them.
Four Stars
The restaurant-and-a-movie concept goes upscale but is still down to earth, produced by Metro Cinema + Indigo Grille.Brian Abrams
The restaurant-slash-movie-theater concept hasn’t really taken off here. To sup-and-screen somewhere other than at our beloved Ridgmar Movie Tavern (comfortable, solid neighborhood grill fare), we Tarrant County folk have to ...
Kutcher Coo
Two movies inspire some thoughts on a pretty, and pretty annoying, actor’s career.Kristian Lin
Have we underestimated Ashton Kutcher? You can hardly blame us if we have. There are so many good reasons to hate him. His starring role in a bunch of lame movies such as Dude, Where’s My Car? and others that were almost as b...
Stark Failure
Kristian LinBetween the dimming of the lights and the opening credits, something happened when I saw the new film version of All the King’s Men. While the screen was showing the studio logos, the movie’s music started up on the soundtr...
Shocking
KulturEven though he’s an independent filmmaker based in lil’ ol’ Fort Worth, Jon Keeyes is probably busier than a lot of Hollywood dudes.