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Bright Star (PG) Jane Campion's dramatization of the romance between the poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). Also with Paul...
Adolescent Dramas
There’s never a shortage of films about coming of age. Everyone comes of age, after all, and such films can often be done cheaply,...
Transformers: Cock-Eyed Optimus
Hey, I’m back! I know. I missed the second Transformers movie. Sorry, everyone. But I’m here now to write about the third installment, Transformers:...
Modern Cinema Festival Returns
I learned something interesting while attending last night's screening of Ain't Them Bodies Saints at the Modern. I already knew that Christopher Kelly's Modern...
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,...
Film Shorts // July 6-12, 2022
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Happy Birthday (NR) Vennela Kishore stars in this Indian comedy as a cabinet minister who loosens gun restrictions, leading to an explosion of gun...
Crosses to Bear
Brendan Gleeson has acted in many Hollywood and British movies, but only the filmmakers in his native Ireland seem to have really figured out...
Best Documentaries of ’18
I wanted to pay tribute to as many films as possible this year, which is why I left the docs off my Top 10...
Oh, God! Book II
The biggest laugh in the 2003 comedy Bruce Almighty didn’t come from the movie’s star, Jim Carrey.
It came from a then-little-known Steve Carell, playing...
Some Beasts: Land to Celluloid
In 2009 writer-director Cameron Bruce Nelson moved to Fort Worth to marry his longtime girlfriend, after a three-year post-college stint working on an organic...
