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Macbeth: Toil and Trouble
And still I haven’t seen a convincing film version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood comes closest, and Scotland, PA comes a...
Film Shorts // January 12-18, 2022
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Bangarraju (NR) Akkineni Nagarjuna and Ramya Krishna reprise their roles in this sequel to the supernatural thriller Soggade Chinni Nayana. Also with Naga Chaitanya,...
Nick Krause On Hollywood, Austin, George Clooney, Madelyn Deutch
People warned me that watching a movie being shot is like watching sap run down a tree. However, what they described as slow, methodical,...
Study in Scarlett
Scarlett Johansson is naked in Under the Skin. Remarkably, she’s never done that before in a movie. Yet there’s more to it than that,...
Mark Hulme’s Way
A Fort Worth native now based in Dallas, Mark Hulme has spent much of his first 50 or so years building a publishing business....
Let’s Stryng Along
They make an interesting study in contrasts, the short-haired, clean shaven, jocular Geoff McGee and the long-haired, bearded, studious Derek Presley. Still, these Dallas...
Yadang: The Snitch Is On
My latest Korean movie is Yadang: The Snitch, a huge box-office success that has won rave reviews from both critics and filmmakers. Maybe this...
“Sex and the City 2: Gays and Cliches”
With scathing reviews and disappointing holiday box office, it looks like a herd of loyal female and gay male fans couldn’t save Sex and...
When You Find a Film With True Grit
The Coen brothers have become rather full of their own philosophy lately, using a series of otherwise widely divergent movies (No Country for Old...
Film Shorts
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Chappie (PG-13) The latest film by Neill Blomkamp (Distrtict 9) is about a police robot (Sharlto Copley) in a futuristic society who’s stolen and...
