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Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 3)
I shifted back to the Modern today after spending yesterday watching movies at AMC Palace. I’m sad to miss two blocks of short films,...
Raging Fire: Yen for Justice
The Hong Kong filmmaker Benny Chan was working on Raging Fire in 2019 when he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. He died from the...
The Best Sports Films of 2009
I was trying to figure out whether I had enough material to do this list, and then Bill Simmons beat me to the punch....
Film Shorts
OPENING:
Beginners (R) This autobiographical drama by Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) stars Ewan McGregor as a man who’s shocked when his terminally ill, recently widowed father...
Conviction Has Courage, Lacks Craft
Hilary Swank stars in Conviction as a woman who launches a more or less single-handed assault on the legal system, and this suffocating, curiously...
Uncanny Valli
There are tons of reasons why the movie version of Jersey Boys shouldn’t work. Most of them have to do with director Clint Eastwood....
America’s Next Top Murderer
It’s been too long since we had a halfway decent American horror flick that wasn’t a remake.
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie...
Belle of the Ball
If you’re like many people, 12 Years a Slave was the first film you saw by a black British director. Maybe you wondered whether...
A Star Is Born: Last Number
It’s an evergreen story, the one about a star on her way up marrying a star on his way down. That’s why A Star...
Film Shorts // January 5-11, 2022
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American Siege (R) Yet another cop thriller starring Bruce Willis, this is about a small-town sheriff fighting a militia that takes a wealthy doctor...
