The Hong-yi Games
The same week that The Diary of a Teenage Girl expands to Tarrant County (see above review), another teen movie hits our theaters. It’s...
All You Need Is Quill
On the surface of a barren, hostile, alien planet, an Earthman named Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) boogies leisurely across the rocky terrain in his...
Argo, Psychopaths: Let’s Fake a Movie!
By coincidence, the titles of both movies this week refer to movies within the movies. Neither Argo nor Seven Psychopaths is really about the...
Half Potions
Two years ago I observed that there are many different ways to make a Harry Potter movie, thanks to all the different directors who've...
Learn From the Monsters
Early in Pixar’s latest movie, Monsters University, Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) steps onto the campus of his college for the first time...
Maiden Voyage
I am not a Star Trek fan. I hung out with a lot of them growing up, but I managed to miss all the...
Tiny Nation House
Here’s a 94-minute found-footage horror movie that would have worked better as an 8-minute found-footage Funny or Die comedy sketch. They’re Watching, which opens...
Bonus Film Reviews
My Film page this week was a casualty of the early deadlines facing our Best of Fort Worth issue. Usually at least one really...
Funny Games
When Heath Ledger is on screen during The Dark Knight, you can't look anywhere else.
Part of this is because the uncategorizable Australian actor died...
The Crash U.K.
’Round about the end of 2011, I started hearing some serious film writers cop to enjoying Fast Five, the fifth chapter in the Fast...
