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Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 4)
Disaster struck at that early screening of Winter Sleep that I mentioned in my last post. The LSFF staff found corruption in the files...
Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 3)
I shifted back to the Modern today after spending yesterday watching movies at AMC Palace. I’m sad to miss two blocks of short films,...
Cinematic Virtuosity
International piano competitions and glitzy film festivals make for interesting bedfellows. The mix seemed uneasy at first but slowly coalesced into a memorable evening...
Lone Star Film Festival Report (Days 1-2)
Hello, and welcome to my first dispatch from the 2014 Lone Star International Film Festival. I had to recuse myself from the opening film...
LSIFF Gets in Iranian Vampire Western
I will be covering the Lone Star International Film Festival on this blog all weekend, but I have an update to pass along to...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
The Great Invisible (PG-13) Margaret Brown’s documentary interviews survivors of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
Big Hero 6 (PG) Disney’s...
Wild Black Yonder
I know this much about Interstellar: Christopher Nolan wants to make a big, ambitious fantasy thriller for the popcorn crowd like he usually does...
Gone Girl
I like the new Keira Knightley. She’s so much more fun than the old one. The old one never would have played the sort...
Halloween DVD Pick: The Innocents
I was lucky enough to see The Innocents when I was a teenager, and it turned me off horror flicks with faceless slashers running...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Nightcrawler (R) Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this thriller as a creepy loner who becomes a freelance crime journalist taking videos of accidents, police chases,...



















