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LSIFF Report (Days 1-2)
Since I’m the only film writer covering this year’s Lone Star International Film Festival for the Weekly this year, I’m posting my coverage of...
The Hong-yi Games
The same week that The Diary of a Teenage Girl expands to Tarrant County (see above review), another teen movie hits our theaters. It’s...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
South of the Border (NR) Oliver Stone’s documentary portrait of seven Latin American leaders, including Raúl Castro, Hugo Chávez, Cristina Fernández de...
Lies My Mother Told Me
Sarah Polley was the It Girl of independent cinema in the late 1990s. The small, serious, fiercely intelligent native of Toronto was still a...
Sting: Along Came a Spider
Like many people, I have seen the superbly funny YouTube clip where film director Kevin Smith describes his experiences working on an aborted Superman...
Smart Elek
As the Nazi reign of terror swept across Europe, many people in various walks of life found ways of standing against it and making...
Apple Cider Vinegar: Sick in the Head
I’m in awe of Kaitlyn Dever. Of course, I was in awe of her well before I saw her in the lead role of...
Here Come the Hardys
You can see the reasoning behind Legend. In casting Tom Hardy as the identical twin brothers who ran London’s organized crime scene in the...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Dom Hemingway (R) Jude Law stars in this comedy as a London safe-cracker who looks to collect on an old debt after doing 12...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Green Zone (R) Matt Damon stars in this thriller as a U.S. Army officer in the early days of the Iraq war who goes...
