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The Not Gay Actor (or, WTF, Ramin Setoodeh?)
Ramin Setoodeh’s recent culture piece in Newsweek last week has set off quite the conflagration in the gay blogosphere, with repercussions for those of...
Film Shorts
Opening
High-Rise (R) Tom Hiddleston stars in this futuristic satire about an apartment tower where the rich live in luxury at the top while the...
Silence: Word of God
My other duties at the Weekly kept me from seeing Martin Scorsese's Silence before I made out my list of the year's best films....
Film Shorts
Opening
Effie Gray (PG-13) Dakota Fanning stars in this biography of the 19th-century Englishwoman and her attempts to free herself from a sexless marriage to...
Blogging “Django Unchained” (Heading to Candyland)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
I’m thoroughly confused about the spelling of the name of Calvin’s estate. The DVD chapter heading has it “Candieland,”...
LSFF 2015 Report: Day 4
The last day of the ninth Lone Star Film Festival opened with T-Rex, Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper's documentary about Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, the...
We’ll Take Manhattan
Reading Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen today, it's striking how this 1985 masterpiece has penetrated to the marrow of countless movies,...
Rap on the Kneecap
I can’t believe I have to write these words, but Walk Hard was supposed to kill off cliché-ridden musical biopics, not provide a model...
Wake Up Dead Man: Murder on the Church Floor
I don’t know whether to call Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery a Christian film. It’s about Christianity, at any rate. We...
UNT Grad Student Wins at Thin Line
Congratulations are in order for Frederick Dent, who won the Audience Choice award for best documentary short film at the Thin Line Film Fest...
