Avatar: Flame War
Avatar: Fire and Ash opens with a filmed statement by James Cameron and his actors warning against the dangers of artificial intelligence taking over the...
DFW Film Critics Pick One Battle After Another
As we do each December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association has picked its best movies of the year, and the big winner is...
R.I.P., Rob Reiner
When the news reports first dropped that two people had been found dead in Rob Reiner’s house in Brentwood, Calif., I’ll admit that the...
Holiday Films, Oscar Bait
We have to start this piece with the strangest movie of the season and possibly the year. The Testament of Ann Lee is a musical...
Frankenstein: Your Monster
Guillermo del Toro’s version of Frankenstein plays in local theaters for two weeks before coming to Netflix, and there’s a great deal to like about...
House of Guinness: Sláinte
Steven Knight is the English screenwriter who created Peaky Blinders, and his new Netflix show, House of Guinness, has much of the same elements...
Locked Up
In 2019, Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 650, which provides new rights for female prisoners and training requirements for guards working in the...
Creature Features
Few things are more comforting for me at the end of a hard day than watching a crowd of panicked humans screaming and running...
Eddington: American Disease
There was a psychological study that stated that people who habitually watched horror movies tended to bear up better during the isolation of the COVID...
Up, Up, and Away
In 2006, the characters in Superman Returns did not use the phrase “truth, justice, and the American way” because the Iraq war had left America’s...
