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End-of-Summer Roundup
It’s the end of August, and the movie distributors are busy depositing all their odd entries in the smaller auditoriums at the AMC Grapevine...
Frozen Glory
When Snowpiercer first hit American theaters two weeks ago, the critical consensus instantly jelled: “This is the year’s greatest science-fiction movie, and all of...
How Long, Fall Weather, How Long?
Today is the first day of September, and that means I’m done with the brutal summer of 2011. The fall season doesn’t officially begin...
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...
Film Shorts
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Anything (R) John Carroll Lynch stars in this dramedy as a widower from Mississippi who moves in with his sister in L.A. Also with...
I’d Tap That
In December, I watched a different holiday-themed movie almost every night. Except for the falling in the swimming pool part, I’ve always thought that...
Larry Stanley Returns Home
Larry Stanley is an avowed Christian whose religion informs his filmmaking, but he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as a Christian filmmaker. “I don’t...
“Midnight in Paris” and DFW’s Film Critics
Last week the DFW Film Critics Association (of which I am a voting member) published its annual list of the best movies of 2011....
Wild Rose: Another Country
Round the middle of this decade, when it became clear that Saoirse Ronan was here to stay awhile, some observers remarked on a curious...
Pond’s Life
When Russ Pond was a boy, he played around with an 8mm camera and made home movies with his brother.
That's how the story...
