Posts Tagged ‘writer’
Starting with the Weekly
StaticFort Worth Weekly’s numerous stories during the early days of natural gas exploration in the Barnett Shale played a prominent role in research by Pennsylvania film director Josh Fox, whose documentary Gasland won a jury prize...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Repo Men (R) Jude Law stars in this sci-fi thriller as a man who repossesses new replacement human organs when their owners default on their payments. Also with Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, Carice van ...
The Ghost Writer: A Real Roman à Clef
Polanski’s thriller happily skewers the war on terror.KRISTIAN LIN
We’ve had examples of prison literature throughout history, but The Ghost Writer may be the closest we’ve ever had to prison filmmaking. Roman Polanski shot the footage prior to his arrest last year, after which he proceede...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Ghost Writer (PG-13) Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ novel stars Ewan McGregor as a writer who learns some dangerous information while working with a former British prime minister (Pierce ...
Tolstoy Finds The Last Station
The Last Station has two Oscar nods, but it ain't Tolstoy.KRISTIAN LIN
When he died, Leo Tolstoy was basically an old hippie. Immensely rich and famous from authoring War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the Russian count had turned his considerable energy to social causes and essays delineating his i...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Leap Year (PG) Amy Adams stars in this romantic comedy as a woman whose plans to follow Irish tradition and propose to her boyfriend on February 29 go awry. Also with Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, Kaitlin Olson, Noel O...
The Decade Onstage
JIMMY FOWLERThis list of 10 great shows doesn’t pretend to be anything like a comprehensive critical overview of Fort Worth theater in the ’00s. I’ve missed too much — and likely forgotten too much — to attemp...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (PG) If the word “squeakquel” is in the title, the movie must be good, right? The animated singing chipmunks return, to find their stardom threatened by a group of si...
Blessed Event
How would Juno? You’ll take an infant liking to this comedy of unplanned parenthood.Kristian Lin
It’s easy to say that Juno is the movie that Knocked Up should have been.
Blessed Event
How would Juno? You’ll take an infant liking to this comedy of unplanned parenthood.Kristian Lin
It’s easy to say that Juno is the movie that Knocked Up should have been.