Elevate: Rêves du Hoop
Any documentary about basketball has to contend with the long shadow cast by Hoop Dreams. The new film Elevate isn’t in that league, yet...
Ragged Date Night for Carell and Fey
You’re probably going to see Date Night because of Steve Carell and Tina Fey. And why not? They seem like a terrific match because...
The Top 10
As 2016 draws to a close, we must say farewell to the Fort Worth Weekly Film page. This article is its last official hurrah...
Morning Glory: Happy Talk
A romantic comedy aiming to be the Broadcast News for our generation, Morning Glory boasts a wealth of talent both in front of and...
Spider-Man: New Silk Threads
A scant five years after Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, and Kirsten Dunst decamped from the Spider-Man series, Sony Pictures has already decided to start...
Spirit Untamed: Even Cowgirls Give the Blues
Back in 2002, I saw Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and then more-or-less instantly forgot everything about it except for Bryan Adams singing (which...
Taken
The romantic comedy What If is adapted from T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi’s play Toothpaste and Cigars. I’ve never seen the play, but somehow...
The Bali/Julia Project: Eat Pray Love
I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s polarizing memoir Eat, Pray, Love and found it as annoying as many others did, though I couldn’t help but wonder...
Morgan Has Broken
Maybe you saw The Witch and wondered what else its young star, Anya Taylor-Joy, might be capable of. Morgan represents your first chance to...
Orient Express: Strangers on a Train
Kenneth Branagh’s new version of Murder on the Orient Express feels curiously old-fashioned. Not because it’s set in 1934, but because Branagh is taking...
