News Roundup: June 4, 2015
Oh, Balls
Some significant news dropped about Andrew Disney. The filmmaker relocated to Austin a few years back, but he remains a Fort Worth native...
A Crank’s Take On The Academy Awards
My annual Academy Awards tailgate party is struggling. I didn’t invite anyone, so nobody showed. Also, I sold my truck and no longer own...
DFW Film Critics: “12 Years a Slave” Is Year’s Best Film
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association announced the results of their annual poll this morning, and 12 Years a Slave took the prize as...
Best Documentaries of 2022
In the year’s best fiction film, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On describes a documentary to his grandmother: “It’s like a movie, but nobody...
Post-Labor Day Movie Thoughts
How was your Labor Day weekend? Judging by the box-office returns, you probably didn’t spend it at the movies, but that’s OK. I still...
Movie Seeks 4-Year-Old Twins
If you're a parent of four-year-old twins or know anyone answering to that description, here's some intriguing news. Vicky Boone Casting is currently searching...
Considering Song Kang-ho
In my review of Snowpiercer, I called Song Kang-ho one of the world’s greatest actors, but I didn’t have the space to go into...
New Words With Ramona and Sarah
I just got back from watching the upcoming movie Ramona and Beezus, and while I can't tell you my opinion of it just yet,...
Sonny Carl Davis on Windsor, Alamo, Evil Bong, Willie Nelson
Sometime back in the early 1990s I stumbled across Last Night at the Alamo (1983), an obscure black-and-white film directed by the tortured Texas...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2012
I don’t expect all these performances to be nominated come Oscar time, but then my picks for the best supporting performances of the year...
