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Thursday, January 8, 2026

Bonded Out

Yes, your movie is that terrible. Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike in Hector and the Search for Happiness.

Stop Hectoring Me

Film Shorts

Film Shorts

Two by Spielberg

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We Need to Leave in The Next Three Days

Best known as the filmmaker who inflicted Crash upon the world, Paul Haggis turns his attention to popcorn entertainment in The Next Three Days,...

Kutcher Coo

Have we underestimated Ashton Kutcher? You can hardly blame us if we have. There are so many good reasons to hate him. His starring...

Wicked: Dark Green

When I reviewed the first Wicked movie, I led off by wondering why the Broadway musical had been split into two parts for the...
A Miracle in Spanish Harlem opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING: A Miracle in Spanish Harlem (PG) Luis Antonio Ramos stars in this Christmas film as a widower with a failing business who finds himself...

Film Shorts

OPENING  The Forgiven (R) Forest Whitaker stars in this historical drama as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, meeting a white South African killer (Eric Bana) in prison...

Dining In

Why do animators on films like Monster House and The Polar Express spend so much energy trying to realistically render people? The wave of...
Kill Your Darlings opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING Kill Your Darlings (R) Daniel Radcliffe stars in this biopic as a teenaged Allen Ginsberg, who falls in love with a fellow Columbia student...
The Awakening opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Awakening (R) This period horror flick begins promisingly before collapsing into a pile of nonsense. Rebecca Hall stars as a scientific debunker of...

A Beginner’s Guide to Korean Cinema

A little more than 10 years ago, I wrote an article for this paper reporting on the first Korean-language films playing in the area...
Cosmopolis opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Cosmopolis (R) David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel stars Robert Pattinson as a young financier whose world comes apart as he rides in...