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Film Shorts // October 10-17, 2023

OPENING   Bhagwan Bharose (NR) This Indian comedy stars Satendra Soni and Sparsh Suman as two kids who try to make sense of their religious teachings...

When Evil Lurks: Patagonia Possession

Fifty years after The Exorcist broke new ground in horror cinema, a new movie about demonic possession comes to our multiplexes that’s fully in...

She Came to Me: Opera Man

It was 21 years ago that I went to the then-new Magnolia Theater in Dallas and saw Personal Velocity. An anthology film with three...

Film Shorts // October 4-10, 2023

OPENING   Chang’an (NR) This Chinese animated film is about the friendship between a feudal soldier (voiced by Yang Tianxiang) and a hard-partying eunuch (voiced by...

Hail The Creator

The advance word about The Creator has been mostly adulatory, with people saying that it’s the next great step in big-budget science-fiction. Respectfully, I...

Film Shorts // September 27 – October 3, 2023

OPENING   Asedio (R) This Spanish cop thriller stars Natalia de Molina as a Madrid officer who stumbles across a web of police corruption that threatens...

It Lives Inside: Fear Eats the Soul

They do make horror movies in India, but those are seldom exported, and for a good reason: Their aesthetics don’t translate so well to...

Dumb Money: The Kitty of Wall Street

One of the things that cheered me up in those dark days of January 2021 was the news about the GameStop stock. A number...

Film Shorts // September 20-26, 2023

OPENING   Antarjal (NR) This drama from Bangladesh is about a group of young people trying to keep social media from tearing the country apart. Starring...

Hercule’s Labored

A Haunting in Venice is the third movie with Kenneth Branagh portraying Hercule Poirot. It seemed like the second film, Death on the Nile,...