The Curse: Frictionless
How does a TV show end? We’ve seen the “main character dies” ending, we’ve seen the “all the characters die” ending, we’ve seen the...
Top Docs of ’23
Even before the pandemic, people predicted the dismal current state of documentary films. Nonfiction is drawing next to no one at the theaters, and...
Maestro: It’s All Just Music
And now, an apocryphal story about Leonard Bernstein. Some 40 years ago, he conducted a Mozart piece at the Grammy Awards ceremony, and after...
The Iron Claw: Beyond the Ring
They’re an essential part of moviegoing and pop music. We call them heartthrobs, those softly beautiful, feminine-looking young guys whom teenage girls (and the...
The Top 10 Movies of 2023
I haven’t reviewed a lot of the movies on this annual feature of mine because they didn’t see the inside of a Tarrant County...
Kaiju-Sized Feels
Who’d have thought one of the year’s best movies would be a Godzilla film? Me, for one. I’ve been loving these things since before...
Wonka: Hot Chocolate
What does it mean that all the actors who have played Willy Wonka on screen have been Americans? You might not have tabbed Timothée...
Holiday Movie Preview
The Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes are now over, but the ripple effects are still evident at the multiplexes. The Dune sequel got bumped...
Of Monsters and Men
A friend and I recently commiserated that keeping up with the Marvel movies and TV shows is beginning to feel like homework, how if...
Napoleon: Cock, Aid
Almost 100 years ago, Abel Gance made a movie about Napoleon Bonaparte. That was more than 100 years after the French conqueror’s death, but...