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Film Shorts

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Film Shorts

Film Shorts

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OPENING Café Society (PG-13) Woody Allen’s latest comedy stars Jesse Eisenberg as a New Yorker in the 1930s whose life changes when he travels to...
Gerard Butler stars as a legendary surfer in Chasing Mavericks opening Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Beauty Is Embarrassing (NR) Neil Berkeley’s documentary profile of artist Wayne White. (Opens Friday in Dallas) Blues for Willadean (NR) Del Shores adapts his own...

Entourage: Posse Out

I went into Entourage cold, having never seen an episode of the HBO TV show. I was aware that the program was respected at...

Film Shorts

Opening Krampus (PG-13) The second movie about the evil Christmas spirit is about a boy (Emjay Anthony) who accidentally calls down the wrathful demon on...
Yep, that’s Tyrese Gibson leaping onto a speeding car to avoid being crushed by a tank in Fast & Furious 6.

The Crash U.K.

’Round about the end of 2011, I started hearing some serious film writers cop to enjoying Fast Five, the fifth chapter in the Fast...

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

A certain contemporary jazz musical looks set to run roughshod over the major awards on Oscar night, which makes my annual piece that much...

LSIFF Report (Day 5)

The last day of the Lone Star Film Festival began with an extraordinary documentary called Leviathan. Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, this...

“GasLand” Nominated for Oscar

There weren't too many surprises in the list of Oscar nominees that were read off this morning, but there was a treat for one...
Ben Affleck makes his way through Khomeini’s Iran in Argo.

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...

Bay Be One More Time

Is there an actor around right now who’s better at playing dumb than Zac Efron? That’s what I wondered while watching Baywatch, and while...