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The Kimbell Screens “The Red Shoes”
It’s not exaggerating to say that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s garishly colorful 1948 melodrama The Red Shoes is one of the most influential...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2014
Just like last year, it seems to me like the supporting actresses got the better roles than their male counterparts. This is true even...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2014
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I don’t do a list of breakout talents every year. In 2014, however, I saw...
Film Shorts
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National Gallery (NR) Frederick Wiseman (High School) directs this documentary about the inner workings of one of London’s great art museums. (Opens Friday...
Top 10 Movies of 2014
I didn’t put any foreign-language films in my list of the year’s best movies. How the hell did that happen? Did the entire non-Anglophone...
The Best Movie Moments of 2014
I did this feature last year and received enough response to encourage me to bring it back this year. This is my rundown of...
Screw You, North Korea! I Saw The Interview.
When last we checked in with The Interview, Sony Pictures had pulled the film from theaters and been roundly criticized for it. Since then,...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2014
Welcome to the first of several blog posts in which I discuss the year in movies. This year, I’m starting with an annual post...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
American Sniper (R) Bradley Cooper stars in Clint Eastwood’s biography of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. Also with Sienna Miller,...
Today Was a Fairytale
Way back before Disney rejuvenated itself by making animated musicals based on fairy tales sprinkled with witty songs, adult concerns, and a wisecracking modern...
