Kristian Lin
The Best Lead Performances of 2018
Always nice to see some new faces make this list, both in the sense of "new to this list" and new to our screens....
Ready As They’ll Ever Be
The NFL regular season has come to a close, and thanks to a shocking 7-1 record over the last half of the season, the...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2018
Here we are once again with my favorite recurring feature of my end-of-year coverage: The best movie dialogue of 2018. Ground rules for all...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2018
I thought I had something interesting to say for the introduction to this yearly feature of mine, but I don’t. These performances come from...
Film Shorts
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Bathtubs Over Broadway (PG-13) Dava Whisenant’s documentary profiles comedy writer Steve Young and his discovery of a rare cache of vintage recordings of Broadway...
The Top 10
I’m in pain while I compile this. It’s true that every year, I find worthy movies that fail to make even the honorable mention...
New Old Venue
A year ago this week, we wrote a story on the history of the Haltom Theater (“A Real Pearl,” Dec 27, 2017). It began...
Night & Day
Wednesday 26 – Grapevine’s Palace Theatre for some reason waited until the day after Christmas to play The Shop Around the Corner, one of the...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2018
Oh, no! My Top 10 list is the start of my annual avalanche of movie coverage that exhaustively recaps all the movies I saw...
Considering John Cena
When I saw the trailer for Bumblebee some months ago, I was skeptical. Not just because all the previous Transformers movies have sucked, but...
