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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Further Notes on “Django Unchained”

Nodding Off

Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade star in "The Watch" opening Friday.

Film Shorts

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Matthew McConaughey hawks life-saving unapproved drugs in Dallas Buyers Club.

Drugstore Cowboy

If you know only one thing about Dallas Buyers Club, it’s probably that Matthew McConaughey lost 40 pounds to play an AIDS patient. That’s...
Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi have a magical face-off with Jim Carrey in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.

Wonderstone, Oz: Lesser Wizards

One of the earliest filmmakers, Georges Meliès, started out as a magician, so it’s really no surprise that filmmakers have long felt an affinity...

First Slam Dunk: Rebounding

Here’s one I didn’t see coming. I wasn’t expecting much when I went to see The First Slam Dunk in an otherwise empty theater...

Film Shorts

OPENING  Detective Chinatown 2 (NR) Liu Haoran and Wang Baoqiang reprise their roles as bumbling private investigators in this action-comedy, this time solving a case...

Film Shorts

OPENING: In the Land of Blood and Honey (R) Angelina Jolie’s first film as writer-director is this English-language war film about a Serbian ...

Problem Kids

It’s fun to extol good movies and trash bad ones, but an awful lot of stuff falls in between those poles. So it happens with...

The Best Lead Performances of 2020

There’s not that many A-list stars in 2020’s list of the best leading actors. Some of you might see that as a negative, but...

Lone Star Film Society Screens “Sunrise”

Since there are so few chances to see expat German director F.W. Murnau’s silent stunner Sunrise (1927) on a big screen, movie fans should...

Memorable Moments from 2010’s Movies

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier: Film Comment used to do a feature in their print version called “Moments Out...

Predator: Killing Kinds

While Dan Trachtenberg has now directed three movies in the Predator series, Predator: Badlands is the first one that you’ll be able to see...