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No Other Land: Don’t Tread on Me
Our idiot president has said that the Gazans should go find a homeland somewhere else. If he’s willing to put them up in Trump...
Food on Film: Forbidden Fruits
A new movie with North Texas ties has us hungry for apples, cherries, figs, and pumpkins. Yes, pumpkin-flavored everything is back on the table. A...
The Best Lead Performances of 2023
Whether they’re actually new faces or just new to this list, it’s good to see some people on this feature of mine who haven’t...
Film Shorts
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The Final Girls (PG-13) Taissa Farmiga stars in this horror-comedy as a woman who reunites with her deceased actress mother (Malin Akerman) when she’s...
Carte Blanchett
Cate Blanchett is generally regarded as one of the great actresses of our time, and yet her actual track record is curiously spotty. She...
The Best Lead Performances of 2012
In some years, the men get the lion’s share of the great leading roles, but in 2012, it was the women who did the...
Win Win Loses Half the Battle
By all rights I should like Tom McCarthy’s movies much better than I do. The writer-director of low-budget dramedies The Station Agent and The...
Three Billboards: Justice Delayed
It did feel like Martin McDonagh had a great movie in him. The Irish playwright has been widely acclaimed in the theater world, but...
Film Shorts
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Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse (R) Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, and Joey Morgan star in this comedy as three scouts who try to save...
Thirteen
First of all, Keeping Up With the Steins isn’t to be confused with 2002’s Kissing Jessica Stein. Between the Judaism and the low-budget depictions...
