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The Fools of Rock
This is what I remember most about Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
Before Tenacious D plays its first gig, at a quiet bar...
The Best Lead Performances of 2011
Assembling the photos for this blog post made me painfully aware that there are no actors of color on this list. I'm not happy...
Love Is All Around
Even before Valentine's Day has reached the theaters, gimlet-eyed observers are already comparing it to the 2003 British film Love Actually, both movies being...
Film Shorts // February 10-16, 2021
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Adverse (R) Thomas Ian Nicholas stars in this thriller as a rideshare driver who discovers that his sister is in debt to the mob....
Intouchables: Comédie Noire
Officially, France is a colorblind society. Unofficially, many French people of color don’t have access to the same economic and educational opportunities that white...
Film Shorts
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The Awakening (R) This period horror flick begins promisingly before collapsing into a pile of nonsense. Rebecca Hall stars as a scientific debunker of...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
It’s late February, which means that it’s time for my annual analysis of the Oscars’ mid-major categories. I like writing this piece, because it’s...
Local Films Shine
Fort Worth's historic Como neighborhood has been a source of great stories for decades, and now it's the subject of a short independent documentary...
Film Shorts // February 15-21, 2023
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Close (PG-13) Nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature, this Belgian drama stars Eden Dambrine and Gustav de Waele as two 13-year-old boys...
Fifteen
Theater actress Marielle Heller became obsessed when she read The Diary of a Teenage Girl, a 2002 illustrated novel by Phoebe Gloeckner that drew...
