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Friday, February 27, 2026

Cowardly Custard

Film Shorts

Michael Peña and Jake Gyllenhaal show off a gold-plated AK-47 in "End of Watch".

End of Watch: Partners Against Crime

Song of Fire

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Film Shorts

OPENING: The King’s Speech (R) Colin Firth stars in this drama as Britain’s King George VI, who struggles to overcome a speech impediment when he...

Cowardly Custard

Wildly popular in their own time, Noël Coward's stage comedies fell from favor in the 1960s and have been struggling ever since. His pieces...

The Lion Bores

OK, I’m trying here. I’m trying really, really hard to see the point of the Lion King remake (beyond the obvious point, which is...

Film Shorts

OPENING The Belko Experiment (R) This horror film by Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) is about 80 white-collar workers who are locked in their office tower...

Ready Player One: Game Nights

Back in the 1980s, Steven Spielberg said that video games would become art the day they made someone cry. I think that already happened...

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

A certain contemporary jazz musical looks set to run roughshod over the major awards on Oscar night, which makes my annual piece that much...
Brad Pitt is an efficient problem solver in "Killing Them Softly."

Killing Them Softly: Cogan’s Bluff

Andrew Dominik is at home among thieves and killers. The New Zealander has made three films, and they’ve all been crime thrillers: the terrifying...

What’s the Big Idea?

George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to...

Coffee Pot Films

You can’t kill it. Filmed at the Alexander Mansion in Dallas in February 2020, right before the world shut down, The Mystery Murder is a 15-minute...

Film Shorts // September 20-26, 2023

OPENING   Antarjal (NR) This drama from Bangladesh is about a group of young people trying to keep social media from tearing the country apart. Starring...