Posts Tagged ‘series’

One-Part Drama

Another British import loses its flavor in America: Edge of Darkness.
KRISTIAN LIN
The key to understanding what’s right and what’s wrong with Edge of Darkness is knowing that it’s based on a British TV miniseries. Our friends across the Atlantic regularly make intelligent multiple-hour opus...

 
February 3, 2010
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Holmes for Christmas

KRISTIAN LIN
In a series of 1940s Hollywood films, Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes as a suave, unflappable Victorian gentleman. His interpretation held sway until a British TV series in the 1980s, when Jeremy Brett re-interpreted the ...

 
December 23, 2009
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Local Films Shine

ANTHONY MARIANI
Fort Worth’s historic Como neighborhood has been a source of great stories for decades, and now it’s the subject of a short independent documentary by the local husband-and-wife team of Carl and Betsy Crum.

 
November 4, 2009
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Best Of 2009 Culture

Fort Worth Weekly Staff
Click here to read more and see who won best Artist, Art Gallery, Theater Troupe, and more.

 
September 30, 2009
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Night and Day

KRISTIAN LIN
WED ? 2 Taylor Hicks drops into Casa Mañana’s production of Grease to sing “Beauty School Dropout.” We think Clay Aiken would be a better fit for the song both vocally and as a stage presence, but it’s ...

 
September 2, 2009
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Night and Day

KRISTIAN LIN
THU ? 27 The Lone Star Film Festival continues its monthly series of screenings of best-received films from last November. Tonight the fest is showing A Quiet Little Marriage, a serious marital drama involving many actors from ...

 
August 26, 2009
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MoMA Movies at the Modern

Big Ticket
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth takes a two-week break from screening current independent films to make room for Still Moving: Classic Films from MoMA.

 
August 13, 2008
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Indy Film

The latest Indiana Jones adventure is a familiar ride and worth the wait.
Kristian Lin
Let’s get right to it: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is quite a bit of fun.

 
May 21, 2008
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DNF

Have a need for speed? Bypass Speed Racer, a TV cartoon come to misbegotten life.
Kristian Lin
Here’s why certain men of a certain age are huge fans of Speed Racer.

 
May 14, 2008
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Q Cinema

Is the movie at the Modern this week the tip of a Fort Worth film revolution?
KRISTIAN LIN
Bo Parker speaks in torrents. His conversation, cloaked with the terminology of marketing and design, crackles with ideas.

 
April 30, 2008
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