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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Film Shorts

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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...

The Best Movie Dialogue of 2012

Once again, it's time for my favorite recurring blog post of the year. As you'll recall, I published a 2011 version of this post...

After Earth: Aftertaste

Remember when M. Night Shyamalan was a household, if lazily mispronounced, name? The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs made him and his signature twist...
Keira Knightley works a street corner (no, not like that) in "Laggies."

Gone Girl

I like the new Keira Knightley. She’s so much more fun than the old one. The old one never would have played the sort...

The Mean (and Fun!) Streets

Street Fighter V launched on shaky legs back in 2016. People criticized its lack of single-player content, thin roster of characters, and poor online performance....

1.83 Meters Under

What’s more depressing than a farce that isn’t funny? Uh, war, famine, poverty, reruns of bad reality TV shows, a few other things. Still, it’s...

Need to Feed

I can't remember the last time an Academy Award-winning screenwriter followed up her Oscar victory with a cheap horror flick. That indeed describes Jennifer's...

High School Movie

The filmmakers in Samsung’s Fresh Films contest not only haven’t been to film school, they haven’t finished high school. The electronics firm sponsors an...

DFW Film Critics Choose Everything

I voted in the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association poll for the year's best achievements in cinema, and today their results bore out Everything...

Drone Wars

Now that drones have become part of the way we fight war, for good or ill, they’ve started to be incorporated into war movies...