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Thursday, December 18, 2025

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Ain’t that a hole in the boat? Robert Redford tries to keep his head above water in All Is Lost.

I Will Survive

Richard Curtis’ time-travel comedy About Time expands to Fort Worth this week (see Film Shorts), and it exhorts us to live each day as...
Michael Shannon silences another victim in The Iceman.

Iceman: Shannon Fodder

Seems that the world has discovered Michael Shannon. And, really, why not? Quite apart from his considerable skills, the 38-year-old Kentucky native offers up...
Bridegroom opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Bridegroom (R) Linda Bloodworth-Thomason’s documentary profiles Shane Bitney Crone, a gay man who found himself deprived of legal rights after his partner, Tom Bridegroom,...

My Dead Friend Zoe: She’s Not There

If this job has taught me one thing, it’s that filmmakers can make funny movies out of even really grim subjects. America’s wars in...

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Lincoln Lawyer (R) Matthew McConaughey stars in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel as a defense attorney who tries to save...

No Relief from Restless

Hot on the heels of 50/50 comes another movie about cancer, the less funny, more irritating, and all-around inferior Restless. The unfortunate timing doesn’t...

Film Shorts // April 22-29, 2025

  OPENING   The Accountant 2 (R) Ben Affleck reprises his role as an autistic accountant who uses illegal methods to solve crimes. Also with Jon Bernthal,...

Lone Star Film Festival Report (Days 3-4)

Saturday, typically the busiest day of the festival, was relatively quiet this year. The highlight of Saturday was the presentation of lifetime achievement awards...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Deep in the Heart (PG-13) Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite) stars in this drama as a recovering alcoholic determined to put his kids through college....

Give ‘Em Hope

How strange it is to watch Milk right now, after the election we've just had. No one could overlook the irony of three states...