Kristian Lin
Wake Up Dead Man: Murder on the Church Floor
I don’t know whether to call Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery a Christian film. It’s about Christianity, at any rate. We...
Eternity: Good Places
In 1998, the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda made a highly atypical work for him called After Life. Depicting life after death as a Buddhist...
Film Shorts // November 26 – December 2, 2025
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Aftershock: The Nicole P. Bell Story (R) So indifferently acted and put together that its message gets lost. Rayven Symone Ferrell portrays the real-life...
Wicked: Dark Green
When I reviewed the first Wicked movie, I led off by wondering why the Broadway musical had been split into two parts for the...
Film Shorts // November 19-25, 2025
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Altered (PG-13) Tom Felton stars in this science-fiction thriller as a man fighting against a future dystopia where genetically enhanced people are the norm....
Running Man: Ben on the Run
Would it be sacrilegious if I said that the new version of The Running Man is a better movie than One Battle After Another?...
Film Shorts // November 12-18, 2025
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The Carpenter’s Son (R) At least this bad Christian movie is based on a different part of the Bible. Adapted from the apocryphal Infancy...
Predator: Killing Kinds
While Dan Trachtenberg has now directed three movies in the Predator series, Predator: Badlands is the first one that you’ll be able to see...
Die My Love: Mad Mama
Lynne Ramsay hasn’t received much play in North Texas. Of course, she’s only directed five feature films since her debut film Ratcatcher in 1999....
Film Shorts // November 5-11, 2025
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All Is Merry and Bright (NR) Emily Rose stars in this Christian drama as a disabled mother and hypercompetitive pageant director who must discover...
