Cheapers Creepers
Writer-director Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity has been labeled "the next Blair Witch Project" - meaning, essentially, horror's new runaway phenomenon - and judging from...
Fahrenheit 911
Did you see Saturday Night Live’s opening sketch a few weeks ago? The one that had Al Gore winning the 2000 presidential election and...
Not Too Late
Amid all the publicity that Gravity is pulling in, let’s not lose track of Enough Said, which is expanding into local theaters this week....
That Hamilton Woman
Older viewers will remember George Hamilton as a maximally tanned, minimally talented Hollywood actor whose fame in the 1970s and '80s was completely out...
Catching Up with Keeyes
Jon Keeyes featured regularly in the pages of Fort Worth Weekly in the mid-2000s as a filmmaker whose locally made slasher flicks such as...
Kryptonite
I’m not sure why this film is called Hollywoodland. The name refers to what Hollywood was originally known as, but it really doesn’t have...
Body Double
Only recently has the word “prestigious” come to mean “acclaimed” or “renowned.” The Prestige wastes no time explaining the word’s earlier meaning, whence comes...
Iron Lady: Tory Details
More than 20 years after she left office as Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher now enjoys a much higher reputation in America...
Corpse Bride
When you encounter hideous misogyny in a movie pitched aggressively at male audiences (like last fall's Good Luck Chuck), it's shocking but not necessarily...
SEALs on the Ground
I’m trying to figure out whether Peter Berg is a formerly promising filmmaker who has turned into a hack, or if that early promise...
