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Just Die Already
For some time now, AMC Grapevine Mills (and, to a lesser extent, its sister theater in Arlington’s Parks Mall) has been setting aside a...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
The Great Invisible (PG-13) Margaret Brown’s documentary interviews survivors of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
Big Hero 6 (PG) Disney’s...
Keith Black’s Summer Break
While most schoolteachers are steeling themselves for the school year ahead, Keith Black has something else going on. The high-school math teacher from the...
Middle Men: The Internet Is for Porn
Middle Men’s version of history is a lie. According to this movie, it was the pornographers who invented online shopping before the major retailers...
Odds and Ends
I watched even more movies this year (more than 300!) than usual, which afforded me more opportunities to see weird and wacky smaller films....
R.I.P., Seijun Suzuki
One of the giants of Japanese cinema passed away last week. The news has only now come filtering to us from Tokyo that Seijun...
Film Shorts
Opening
Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World (NR) Belinda Sallin’s documentary profile of the late artist, architect, and Oscar-winning production designer. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
Chronicles of...
Invisible Man: Evidence of Things Not Seen
In 1932, Rouben Mamoulian adapted Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into a film. Robert Louis Stevenson’s science-fiction novel had already been made into at...
Considering Anna Faris
I spent Saturday watching Anna Faris host a pretty good episode of Saturday Night Live that she didn’t contribute much to. Coming on the...
Considering Kevin Spacey
One of my early assignments for Fort Worth Weekly was going to the Eastchase theater in the fall of 1999. The multiplex (then part...
