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Saturday, June 6, 2026

Since My Baby Left Me

Film Shorts

Monos: Monkeys Do

Mommy

Beautiful Boy

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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...

Trippy Dick

Back in his heyday some 30 years ago, pulp author Philip K. Dick was the literary equivalent of a paranoid nut-job. Some of his...
Forest Whitaker tidies up Robin Williams’ desk in the Oval Office in Lee Daniels’ The Butler.

A Place Beside the Table

The issue comes up again and again, and for good reason. Recent movies like The Help, Lincoln, Django Unchained, and 42 vary widely in...
Insurgent

Out of Faction

Example No. 54,903,812 of the movie industry’s glass ceiling: While Hollywood is coming around at a snail’s pace to the idea that a fantasy-adventure...

Film Shorts // October 8-14, 2025

  OPENING   Beast of War (R) This Australian thriller is about a group of American soldiers shipwrecked at sea and preyed on by sharks. Starring Mark...

LSFF Report (Day 3)

As always, Saturday turned out to be the busiest day for the festival. The winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film...

Unhappy Haneke

When you watch slasher flicks and other movies that kill off innocent characters like ants, do you feel bad for those onscreen victims? Do you...

Lone Star Film Society Screens “The Lodger”

The Lone Star Film Society is presenting an orgy of great Hitchcock flicks this weekend, and my pick of the litter would be Hitch’s...

Pillion: Harry Melling and the Hot Biker Guy

Well, well. If you’d come up to me during the run of Harry Potter movies and asked me which of the kid actors outside...

How She Does It

In our post-Oprah era, the overachieving mother who balances a high-profile job with keeping a perfect house and happy marriage should make for a...