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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Another Rainy Weekend

Film Shorts

Quvenzhané Wallis faces down an extinct creature in the Louisiana bayou in Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Animal Kingdom

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Samurai Reborn

The TV-watching world seemed to be waiting for Shōgun. Not only was FX’s historical series an adaptation of a bestseller of the same name...

Kryptonite

I’m not sure why this film is called Hollywoodland. The name refers to what Hollywood was originally known as, but it really doesn’t have...

Film Shorts

OPENING Buddymoon (NR) David Giuntoli stars in this comedy as a man who gets dumped by his fiancée days before their wedding and goes hiking...

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...

Mighty Orphans Await Kickoff

“Everything about Hollywood has surprised me,” said Russell Morton, a third-generation Fort Worth native who recently moved back here from New York City. “I’m...

Dark Shadows: Angelique Diabolique

It takes peculiar talent to make the Goth crowd laugh. Back in 1988, Tim Burton did just that with Beetlejuice, which marked him as...

Rushed Hours

Adapted from a comic-book miniseries from 2003 and '04, Wanted is Hollywood's latest attempt to piggyback on the successes of other cultish comic adaptations...

Color Purple: African Violet

There was not as much outcry as you might expect when Steven Spielberg was announced as the director of The Color Purple in the...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Page One: Inside the New York Times (R) Andrew Rossi (Eat This New York) directs this documentary that follows journalists on the famed newspaper’s...

North Texas Films at Sundance: How’d They Do?

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival ended this past weekend, and North Texas was unusually well represented at this year's fest, both in the number...