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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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Yes, your movie is that terrible. Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike in Hector and the Search for Happiness.

Stop Hectoring Me

And now, ladies and gentlemen, comes one of the year’s most insufferable movies, Hector and the Search for Happiness. Simon Pegg’s collaboration with Edgar...

“The Room” at Ridgmar Tavern

There are two kinds of great bad movies. The first kind is cheap crap turned out by a cynical director to make a quick...

“Fearless” in 2010

North Texas filmmakers have a little less than a month to submit their short flicks (20 minutes or less, please) for the fourth annual...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Aardvark (PG-13) Zachary Quinto stars in this drama as a mental patient whose therapist (Jenny Slate) falls for his brother (Jon Hamm). Also with...

Letters to Savannah

In her recent, cautiously positive review of Extraordinary Measures, film critic Dana Stevens advanced the idea on Slate that the movie world's new guilty...

Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 1)

Some of this year’s film festivals are still virtual, but the Lone Star Film Festival, having gone that route last year, is back to...

Bridgerton: Love & Friendship

In a recent movie review, I mused that ancient British baronial estates are not known to be welcoming to Black people. One of the...

Film Shorts

OPENING   Bleed for This (R) Miles Teller stars in this biography of boxing champion Vinny Pazienza. Also with Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal, Ciarán Hinds, and...

Red Scare

Arlington native Blake Calhoun appears to be on his way. His action-packed thriller and third feature Killing Down had its world premiere earlier this...

Dream Supreme

When Dreamgirls debuted on Broadway in 1981, it won over an entire generation of theatergoers, African-American and not, with songs by Henry Krieger and...