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Friday, March 6, 2026

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Pillion: Harry Melling and the Hot Biker Guy

Well, well. If you’d come up to me during the run of Harry Potter movies and asked me which of the kid actors outside...

Film Shorts // February 25 – March 3, 2026

  OPENING   Dreams (NR) Jessica Chastain stars in this drama about a wealthy American socialite having an illicit affair with an undocumented Mexican dancer (Isaac Hernández)....

How to Make a Killing: Bad Relations

I’m about to drop some film history on you, so brace yourself. In 1949, the British director Robert Hamer made a black-comedy masterpiece called...

R.I.P., Frederick Wiseman

This past Monday, the news came from Massachusetts that Frederick Wiseman passed away at the age of 96. Most of the film press was...

I Dream a World

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Black History Month. Had I been reviewing movies back in February 1976, I likely would have marked...

Film Shorts // February 18-24, 2026

This week’s Film Shorts list includes four titles with exclusive showings here in North Texas. Let’s start with those:   North Texas Exclusives   Aida y vuelta (NR)...

Hot Wuther

Do we need another film of Wuthering Heights? The great William Wyler turned it into an imposing movie in 1939. In 2012, Andrea Arnold...

The Beauty & the Blecch

Ryan Murphy’s shows and movies outside of the American Horror Story universe feel like properties designed for the digital information age, and that’s not necessarily...

Film Shorts // February 11-17, 2026

  OPENING   Aida y vuelta (NR) Based on the Spanish TV series by the same name, this movie is about the cast of a popular TV...

Moment: Sorry, Charli

I don’t know enough about the music of Charlotte Aitchison a.k.a. Charli xcx to call myself a fan, though I’ve tended to admire the...