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Sunday, June 7, 2026

Hunger Games: Girl on Fire

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

Animal Kingdom

Dangerous Method: Jungian Slip

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Film Shorts

OPENING Blind (R) Alec Baldwin stars in this drama as a novelist blinded in a fatal car accident who rediscovers his zest for life through...

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Last Airbender (PG) M. Night Shyamalan’s big-screen live-action version of the animated kids’ TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender stars...

Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar More

Netflix just seems to be keen on Edgar Allan Poe, right? Last winter’s Wednesday had a Poe-themed episode, then Edgar Allan himself became a supporting...

Film Shorts

OPENING Ana y Bruno (NR) This Mexican animated film is about a girl (voiced by Galia Mayer) who breaks out of a mental institution to...

Ophelia: Too Much of Water

Remember Hamlet 2? In that flawed and awesome comedy, an Arizona drama teacher wants so badly for the characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to survive...

Film Shorts // July 13-19, 2022

OPENING   Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (PG-13) The filmmaking team of Julie Cohen and Betsy West (RBG) helm this documentary about the former Arizona congresswoman...
Labor Day opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Labor Day (PG-13) Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) directs this adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel starring Kate Winslet as a depressed mother...

Out of the Past

Unlike painting or sculpture, movies exist in time, a fact that we’re reminded of whenever we hurry to grab a seat before the 7:20...

Popcorn and Kimchee

With 30 screens to fill each week, the folks at AMC Grapevine Mills occasionally fill out their bill with obscure entries from the ranks...

Further Notes From the “Inception”

I got the DVD of Inception a couple of weeks ago, and I've been obsessively re-watching it. Indeed, this is one movie that seems...