The Comedian: Laugh Lines
Funny people are delightful to be around, but professionally funny people can be exhausting. They turn every conversation into a wisecrack, a pun, an...
L.A. Lawless
The uneven career of Jack Black has had some delirious highs (The School of Rock) and gruesome lows (Gulliver’s Travels), but this comic actor...
Break-in Breakout
Even though Edward Furlong has been a working actor for 16 years, the star of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Detroit Rock City, and Pecker...
Celluloid Dreams
"I ask my students about their dreams," said Greg Mansur, who teaches filmmaking at Texas Christian University. "They think it's silly at first, but...
Dear John Letter
In this current phase of Al Pacino’s career, when he’s playing broken-down old men with no one to blame but themselves for being broken...
Strange Animal
If I’d known that The Host was opening in Grapevine as well as Dallas last week, I would have reviewed it on time.
I couldn’t...
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...
The Help: Maid in Mississippi
When Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel The Help became a huge popular success in 2009, Hollywood studios immediately rushed in with offers to have A-list...
Dragon Tattoo: I Love Playing with Fire
It’s not every week that a Swedish novelist who’s been dead for six years makes the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Such is the engrossing...
Tears in Tinseltown
I hated Garden State when it came out. I detested its cutesy preciousness, its 10-cent spiritual wisdom, its general air of being pleased with...
