A More Crowded Oscar Race
For more than 60 years, five films have been nominated each year for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Yesterday, the Academy announced that...
“Making the Boys” at Q
Anyone interested in the American theater, gay culture, and the assimilation of gay people into the mainstream (or not) should check out director Crayton Robey’s...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2024
They say that blog posts are all audio and visual content now, and that the written word is becoming an afterthought. Maybe that’s true,...
Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 3)
I shifted back to the Modern today after spending yesterday watching movies at AMC Palace. I’m sad to miss two blocks of short films,...
Bonus Film Review: The Mermaid
Big movies tend to come out in the Far East around Chinese New Year, and the recent festivities included the likes of Kung Fu...
Jimmy Buffet: A Howlin’ Good Time
I won’t go as far as to say that last night’s Jimmy Buffet concert at Coyote Drive-In was the best concert of the year....
LSFF 2015 Report: Day 3
I got up early to listen to the festival’s keynote speech by David Edelstein, a critic who now works at New York magazine and...
Random Observations on Fifty Shades of Grey
So I finally saw Fifty Shades of Grey. It was less terrible than I feared, but still fell well short of being good. Let’s...
R.I.P., Satoshi Kon
Sad news from Japan: Animated film director Satoshi Kon has died of pancreatic cancer at age 47. At first it appeared that the news...
Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 2)
Friday was my first chance to see the Downtown Cowtown at the Isis, the newly restored former movie theater that was known as the...
