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Entering Bly Manor
In 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House, director Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Doctor Sleep) used the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name as a...
Holiday Movie Preview
It’s the young people who are keeping movie theaters afloat these days. How else to explain the recent box-office numbers? We’ve seen Black Adam and...
See How They Run: Murder Behind the Scenes
Oh, how the British must have watched Knives Out with jealousy. Time was, the U.K. used to turn out lighthearted murder mysteries like that...
Odds and Ends
One of my favorite regular features is this one that I do around this time every year. It’s my way of writing about a...
Film Shorts // December 20-26, 2023
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Anyone But You (R) This romantic comedy stars Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney as a short-lived couple who feign that their relationship is still...
Show of Force
I think I’ve been resisting the Star Wars hype pretty well. While people around me have been holding their breath for the better part...
Atonal Music
I must confess, Freddie Highmore is starting to scare me a bit (in a good way, though).
The London native is 15 years old...
Film Shorts
OPENING
Annabelle: Creation (R) A prequel to the 2014 horror film, this stars Anthony LaPaglia and Miranda Otto as bereaved parents who welcome a group...
Defending “Sucker Punch”
This week Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch came out on DVD, and since a) I didn’t get a chance to review it properly when it...
DFW Film Critics Call on The Power of the Dog
Time once again for us to recap this past year in film. The Dallas Fort Worth Film Critics Association gave a resounding endorsement to...
