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Sessions: The 36-Year-Old Virgin
You can get a double dose of John Hawkes this week. The 53-year-old character actor was in Fort Worth last weekend to be feted...
LSIFF Report (Day 5)
The last day of the Lone Star Film Festival began with an extraordinary documentary called Leviathan. Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, this...
LSIFF Report (Day 4)
I got a big dose of high culture at LSIFF today, with Shakespeare, free jazz, and opera taking up my movies. Read on:
Caesar Must...
LSIFF Report (Day 3)
Much bigger crowds on Friday than the previous two days for LSIFF. This isn’t to be wondered at, with the weekend beckoning. Even Jayne...
LSIFF Report (Days 1-2)
Since I’m the only film writer covering this year’s Lone Star International Film Festival for the Weekly this year, I’m posting my coverage of...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
This Must Be the Place (NR) Sean Penn stars in this dramedy by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) about a retired rock star who returns...
Skyfall: The Divine Ms. M
One thing the James Bond series has been known for is the “Bond girls,” those hot women of various ethnicities and varying degrees of...
Iron Fists: Wu, No!
Before he called himself RZA and conquered a big swath of the hip-hop world, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs was a teenager in New York, escaping...
Catching Up With the Classics (Part 2)
Continuing the project that I started a few weeks ago, here are thoughts on more of the canonical films that eluded me until now....
Film Shorts
OPENING:
The Details (R) Jacob Aaron Estes (Mean Creek) writes and directs this black comedy about an unscrupulous doctor (Tobey Maguire) whose marriage and career...
