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Monday, May 25, 2026

Joysticks to the World

Gerard Butler stars as a legendary surfer in Chasing Mavericks opening Friday.

Film Shorts

Film Shorts

Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan sit poolside in the movie of the year, Ruby Sparks.

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August: Osage County opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: August: Osage County (R) Meryl Streep stars in this adaptation of Tracy Letts’ acclaimed play as a dying Oklahoma matriarch who gathers her family...

Die My Love: Mad Mama

Lynne Ramsay hasn’t received much play in North Texas. Of course, she’s only directed five feature films since her debut film Ratcatcher in 1999....

Sputnik: Passenger

For decades, Russian filmmakers have largely ignored the international audience. They’ve made films strictly for domestic moviegoers, because there have been enough of those...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Waiting for “Superman” (PG) The latest documentary by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) details the failings of the American public education system. (Opens Friday) I...

Blow-Opp

Why do we watch a three-hour historical epic? We do it to be swallowed up. Other types of movies can make us see how...

Shape of Water: God and Monster

You know that Guillermo Del Toro is Mexican, and his latest cinematic fairy tale The Shape of Water is set in America, but watching...
Backed by session musicians and neighborhood kids, Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo prepare to record outdoors in Begin Again.

I Feel the Music in You

Back in 2007, Irish TV writer John Carney made his first film, a slender little romance called Once that was mostly intended to showcase...

Let Me In: “I’ve Been 12 for a Long Time”

The insinuating Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In took the world (including the 2008 Lone Star International Film Festival) by storm, and...

Film Shorts // July 17-23, 2024

OPENING   Bad Newz (NR) This Indian comedy stars Triptii Dimri as a woman who becomes pregnant with twins by two different fathers. Also with Vicky...

Film Shorts

Opening Ip Man 3 (PG-13) Donnie Yen reprises his role as the kung fu master who tries to keep Hong Kong from being taken over...