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I’m Not There
The best bets this Valentine's Day are two special-effects-laden fantasy films from Hollywood, both blessedly free of any pretensions to be the next Lord...
Eternity: Good Places
In 1998, the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda made a highly atypical work for him called After Life. Depicting life after death as a Buddhist...
Film Shorts
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (PG-13) Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush return for this fourth adventure as two pirates searching...
Ted Talks
I have never been a fan of Seth MacFarlane or Family Guy, but when I saw the trailer for his debut film Ted, I...
A Widow Needs A Little Help
Steve Carell isn’t the only star of TV’s The Office with a movie out this week. Jenna Fischer charmed millions of viewers portraying the...
Film Shorts
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Hell or High Water (R) Ben Foster and Chris Pine star in this thriller as two brothers who launch a desperate criminal scheme to...
Adolescent Dramas
There’s never a shortage of films about coming of age. Everyone comes of age, after all, and such films can often be done cheaply,...
Film Shorts
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After Class (NR) Justin Long stars in this comedy as a professor who flees campus for a week after his behavior lands him in...
Film Shorts // March 6-12, 2024
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Accidental Texan (PG-13) Mark Lambert Bristol’s comedy is about an itinerant teen (Rudy Pankow) and an old wildcatter (Thomas Haden Church) who hatch a...
KP Duty
Unlike most of the local filmmakers I profile, John Venable is someone I've known for a long time. That's because he's a film critic...
