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The Hong-yi Games
The same week that The Diary of a Teenage Girl expands to Tarrant County (see above review), another teen movie hits our theaters. It’s...
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Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (PG) This animated film in different styles details the homecoming of an exiled prophet (voiced by Liam Neeson) who discusses...
Lost in America
You know Jason Segel as the adorable big cut-up from Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Muppets and especially TV’s How I Met Your Mother....
Send in the Cloud
In 2008, Shannon Cloud was 13 years old when her mother signed her up for Kamp Hollywood, a filmmaking and acting summer camp in...
Film Shorts
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Straight Outta Compton (R) F. Gary Gray directs this biography detailing the rise and fall of controversial rap group N.W.A. in the mid-1980s. Starring...
Solo Effort
I’ll admit I’ve never seen the spoofy 1960s spy show on which The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is based. The film version looks promising on...
White People Problems
If you love Brooklyn hipsters, you need to see Fort Tilden, a movie that’s set right in the milieu and that opens this week...
An Appreciation of Satoshi Kon
This post was originally published on August 25, 2010 on the occasion of Satoshi Kon's death and is reprinted below in advance of the...
Beyond Good and Evil
Ten years ago, Woody Allen bought himself a creative rejuvenation by finding a new leading lady in the fresh-faced, widely feted Scarlett Johansson. With...
Ricki Road
A typical entry with an atypical provenance, Ricki and the Flash is an attempt by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Diablo Cody to...
