Pride Movies
One of the funniest parts of Venom: Let There Be Carnage was when the man-eating antihero (Tom Hardy) has a falling out with his host...
Walt Disney: Big Jerk or Super Big Jerk?
Starting tonight, Circle Theatre will present the final weekend of its engrossing Southwest premiere Something Intangible, and as this week’s ”Stage” review indicates, Bruce...
Blogging “Black Swan” (Part 1)
I had a ton of thoughts about Black Swan that I couldn’t include in my review of the film. Now that it’s out on...
Considering Toni Collette
Two months ago, I saw Toni Collette tear up the screen as a grieving mother who sees supernatural forces preying on her family in...
Kevin Durand Stars As Fort Worth Coach Tonight
Take a hard-as-nails U.S. Marine lieutenant colonel who served in WWII and the Korean conflict, put a whistle around his neck and give him...
Odds and Ends
I didn’t do this feature last year because I didn’t have enough entries to make a whole article about it. It’s returning with a...
The Second 100 Best Movies of the 2010s
Would you believe it? This is only the second full decade I’ve been employed as a film critic. Other people have done lists of...
R.I.P., James Gandolfini
When I heard that James Gandolfini passed away yesterday, I didn't think about his performance as Tony Soprano. I thought about a much earlier...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2017
This was kind of a down year for movie dialogue, but I was still able to find some good examples from this year’s films....
Toast & Jam with Marco Petrilli
Students can enjoy a School of Rock experience at Southwest High School's Contemporary Academy of Music, a program that teaches kids to write, perform,...
