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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Tessa Thompson (foreground, left) and her friends take a dim view of racial stereotypes in Dear White People.

The Blackness Project

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Hatching: The Egg and I

Never seen a Finnish film? Head over to the AMC Grapevine Mills to take in Hatching, a horror film that will crawl around in...

R.I.P. Bea Arthur

I thought I didn't have anything to add to the obituary notices for the late Bea Arthur being run in the mainstream press, but...

Carrie-on Baggage

I wish the Sex and the City movie had been a musical, with our four favorite fashion plates addressing their relationship problems by bursting...
Shailene Woodley is welcomed into her new faction in Divergent.

Born This Way

I think the ideal time to see Divergent is when you’re a teenager. This dystopian science-fiction saga based on Veronica Roth’s best-selling novel is...

Belfast: We the North

Even with his Gaelic name, it’s easy to forget that Kenneth Branagh is not English. He is from Northern Ireland, that Protestant northeastern corner...

Oscar’s Gold

My editor asked me to do something different this year and analyze all the major categories at the Academy Awards instead of just the...

Korean Killer

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? By all rights, Parasite’s Oscar win for Best Picture should have started a flood of Korean movies into...

Superpowers Falter in the New X-Men

Well, crap. I had such high hopes for X-Men: First Class. The fifth entry in this loosely connected series features the return of Bryan...
It’s always crazy in Philadelphia: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook.

Silver Linings: Soaring Eagles

For whatever reason, this is a banner year for movies about mental illness set in Pennsylvania. We still have the excellent Pittsburgh teen flick...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Before You Know It (NR) Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock star in their comedy as sisters who discover that the mother whom they...