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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The Top 10

Not the Finest Anything

Corpse Bride

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Babies, Babies, Babies

I’m glad Kristian Lin didn’t jump on the doting nanny bandwagon in his review of the documentary Babies. A friend invited me to see...
Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche share a laugh in front of one of her paintings in Words and Pictures.

Unacceptable

The biggest problem with Words and Pictures is that it’s really dumb. That can be an asset to some films, but for a romantic...

LSFF Report (Day 2)

I should mention that the Lone Star Film Society is starting up a new series called Arthouse FW that will be showing classic films...

LSFF Report (Days 1-3)

First thing to report about this year's Lone Star Film Festival: The films are being shown in the top floor of the AMC Palace...

First Cow: Got Milk?

Some of the most fascinating filmmakers seem to have been born at the wrong time. Whit Stillman should have been writing Restoration comedies, Guy...

Pig in the City

I have here a movie called Pig, a suspense thriller in which the stringy-haired protagonist stares into space and says, “Who has my pig?”...

Informers

On some level, I can’t help but feel sorry for Black Mass. This movie gives off every sign of wanting to be very serious...
Ethan Hawke! Ethan Hawke! Playing a true-crime novelist in a haunted house leaves little time for flicking on lightswitches.

Sinister: Hum-Bughuul

If cinema has taught us anything, it’s that whenever a writer moves to a new town/house/hotel, he or she is inevitably going to scare...

Kajillionaire: July Heist

Of all the filmmakers to make a caper film, Miranda July would have ranked very low on the list of people I’d expect. The...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Beneath the Leaves (NR) This thriller stars Kristoffer Polaha as a cop who’s forced to catch the escaped convict (Doug Jones) who kidnapped him...