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Film Shorts

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Iran Arrests Filmmaker

Oh, this can't be good. The reports coming out of Iran say that movie director Jafar Panahi has been detained at an undisclosed location...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Everything Must Go (R) The recipient of a surprise screening at last year’s Lone Star Film Festival, this drama stars Will Ferrell as...

The Top 10

Who was it who said that a critic’s year-end Top 10 list isn’t really a list of their 10 favorite films? Rather, it deliberately...

Pick Again

I like Teresa Palmer. The athletic blonde Australian, who turns 30 this month, is equally at home in comedies like Take Me Home Tonight...

In Whose Name?: Yeezy as 1-2-3

We’re six years and counting into the Kanye West mental meltdown, and still the most perceptive thing anybody has said about it was on...

Film Shorts

OPENING: South of the Border (NR) Oliver Stone’s documentary portrait of seven Latin American leaders, including Raúl Castro, Hugo Chávez, Cristina Fernández de...

Film Shorts

OPENING Abduction (PG-13) Taylor Lautner stars in John Singleton’s action-adventure film as a teenager who’s sucked into an espionage plot after discovering his own picture...

Film Shorts // February 19-25, 2025

  OPENING   Cleaner (R) Daisy Ridley may be best in these B-level thrillers, but that doesn’t make this movie good. She stars as a dishonorably discharged...

Film Shorts // October 30 – November 5, 2024

OPENING   Absolution (R) Liam Neeson stars in this thriller as a gangster trying to reconcile with his estranged children. Also with Ron Perlman, Frankie Shaw,...

God Parents

I had an epiphany while watching The Nativity Story. An angel spoke in my ear, if you wish, though I prefer to believe I...