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Larry Stanley Returns Home

Larry Stanley is an avowed Christian whose religion informs his filmmaking, but he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as a Christian filmmaker. “I don’t...
Hector and the Search for Happiness opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Hector and the Search for Happiness (R) Simon Pegg stars in this comedy as a psychiatrist who travels the globe to find out...

Blogging “Django Unchained” (The Tennessee Chapters)

Part 1 is here. • In some sheltered rocky campsite on the road to Tennessee, Dr. Schultz is taking his clothes down from a laundry...

Film Shorts // March 26 – April 1, 2025

  OPENING   Audrey’s Children (PG) This biographical drama stars Natalie Dormer as Dr. Audrey Evans, the founder of Ronald McDonald House. Also with Jimmi Simpson, Brandon...

Ella McCay: I’m Not With Her

It didn’t take long. We weren’t a minute into Ella McCay when the onscreen narrator (Julie Kavner) tells us about the title character, “I’m...

The Greatest Showman: Hokum

It's been quite a ride for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, hasn't it? Just 13 months ago, you'd have needed to be a pretty...
The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and multiple prizes at Cannes, Beasts of the Southern Wild opens Thursday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and multiple prizes at Cannes,...

Gay Hijinks

Well, this is an interesting time for Brüno to come out, even more interesting than my choice of phrase just now. A few weeks...

Card Counter: Poker Face

This weekend is the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, so it’s fitting that The Card Counter comes out as one of...
Stéphanie Cléau and Mathieu Amalric have an affair that ends in murder in The Blue Room.

Indie Film Roundup

Every once in awhile, rather than telling you about the big films that everyone else is covering, we like to focus on movies that...