Lone Star Film Festival Report (Days 3-4)
Saturday, typically the busiest day of the festival, was relatively quiet this year. The highlight of Saturday was the presentation of lifetime achievement awards...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2015
Here’s the first batch of acting awards I’m handing out for this year. You may be wondering where Rooney Mara is. I’m not including...
House of the Dragon Recap, Episode 8: King Midas in Reverse
Prior to Game of Thrones’ debut, I remember selling it to a friend with a low threshold for swords and sorcery as “like The...
DFW Film Critics Choose Everything
I voted in the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association poll for the year's best achievements in cinema, and today their results bore out Everything...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2014
Just like last year, it seems to me like the supporting actresses got the better roles than their male counterparts. This is true even...
House of the Dragon Recap, Episode 3
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown,” said Henry IV in Part 2 of the Shakespeare play that bears his name, and while...
Considering Kevin Spacey
One of my early assignments for Fort Worth Weekly was going to the Eastchase theater in the fall of 1999. The multiplex (then part...
Wicked: Fo’ Shiz
I’ll admit I was skeptical when I heard that they were breaking up the film version of Wicked into two movies. Like most Broadway musicals...
House of the Dragon Recap, Episode 6: Dishonesty
After we watched the sixth episode of House of the Dragon, my girlfriend dived into A Wiki of Ice and Fire. The way they’re...
Bonus Film Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane
The headline on the Guardian's review of 10 Cloverfield Lane reads "more Hitchcock than Xbox." I like the British newspaper, but this isn't one...
