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Films on the Fly
Half a dozen things make demands on Jennifer Brown-Thomas’ time these days, but she looks remarkably put together as she arrives for an interview...
Donnie Nelson Screens Basketball Documentary
Mavericks fans and devotees of recent Eastern European history will want to show up at Dallas' Magnolia Theatre tomorrow evening. That's when Mavs' president...
Film Shorts
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The Paperboy (R) Lee Daniels (Precious) adapts Pete Dexter’s novel about an investigative reporter (Matthew McConaughey) returning to his Florida hometown to find the...
Argo, Psychopaths: Let’s Fake a Movie!
By coincidence, the titles of both movies this week refer to movies within the movies. Neither Argo nor Seven Psychopaths is really about the...
Catching Up With the Classics (Part 1)
A few weeks ago I blogged about Sight & Sound’s list of the greatest movies ever and urged you to see some of them....
Film Shorts
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Butter (R) Jennifer Garner stars in this political satire as an Iowa woman who expects to finally win her local butter-sculpting competition, only to...
Frankenweenie: Ghost Dog
Expanded from the same 1984 short film that got Tim Burton fired as a Disney animator, Frankenweenie (which Burton has made under Disney’s auspices,...
Wallflower: End of the Tunnel
Stephen Chbosky’s coming-of-age novelette The Perks of Being a Wallflower was a huge hit when it was published in 1999, and the author received...
Considering Bruce Willis
I didn’t have space to get into this in my review of Looper, but I continue to be amazed by the career of Bruce...
DVD Review: “Damsels in Distress”
This is how big a Whit Stillman fan I am: I saw his Metropolitan as a teenager. (Weirdly enough, it was broadcast on local...
