Blunt Force
Emily Blunt is on some kind of tear. We used to think of her as some proper English rose living among unthreatening romantic comedies,...
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...
Informers
On some level, I can’t help but feel sorry for Black Mass. This movie gives off every sign of wanting to be very serious...
Scorch Marks
I must admit I was a bit bewildered when I heard that last year’s The Maze Runner was getting a sequel. The dystopian YA...
Babbling Brooke
The press can’t resist a narrative, especially when it resembles a bad romantic comedy. Noah Baumbach spent the late 2000s gaining a small but...
Mile After Mile
After the success of the movie version of Wild, it seems inevitable that someone would make a film of A Walk in the Woods:...
Fifteen
Theater actress Marielle Heller became obsessed when she read The Diary of a Teenage Girl, a 2002 illustrated novel by Phoebe Gloeckner that drew...
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...
Lost in America
You know Jason Segel as the adorable big cut-up from Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Muppets and especially TV’s How I Met Your Mother....
Send in the Cloud
In 2008, Shannon Cloud was 13 years old when her mother signed her up for Kamp Hollywood, a filmmaking and acting summer camp in...
