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Luckiest Man: No Pressure

The odd historical drama The Luckiest Man in America takes place on the TV game show Press Your Luck. The original version of that...

Film Shorts // April 2-8, 2025

  OPENING   Anjila (NR) Anjila Tumbapo Subba stars in this movie based on her own life as the starting goalkeeper for Nepal’s women’s soccer team. Also...

Minecraft Movie: Blockheads

What’s become clear in the last decade or so is that any intellectual property can become a great movie if it’s treated with enough...

Death of a Unicorn: Poke My Heart

Last summer’s Cuckoo was the only horror movie that had scientists breeding human-cuckoo hybrids to enact large-scale mind-control, and Death of a Unicorn also...

Film Shorts // March 26 – April 1, 2025

  OPENING   Audrey’s Children (PG) This biographical drama stars Natalie Dormer as Dr. Audrey Evans, the founder of Ronald McDonald House. Also with Jimmi Simpson, Brandon...

Odds and Ends

Once again, this past year yielded some movies of interest that I didn’t get to write about, mostly because they didn’t play in Tarrant...

Snow White: First Light I See Tonight

Let’s get my least favorite part of this review out of the way and run down all the controversies that have dogged the live-action...

Film Shorts // March 19-25, 2025

  OPENING   The Alto Knights (R) Barry Levinson’s gangster film stars Robert De Niro as both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello as the two mobsters vie...

Black Bag: Spies in the House of Love

Steven Soderbergh came up as a young Turk in the late 1980s, exploding Hollywood narrative conventions and exploring new layers of metafiction in sex,...

Novocaine: Comfortably Numb

Jack Quaid is having himself a season. The son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan made his film debut back in 2012, being shot...