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Happy Returns
At first, it was all good for 45 Years. After winning the Silver Bear (runner-up) prize at the prestigious Berlinale last year, this British...
Animal World: House of Cards
I just saw this Chinese film called Animal World at AMC Grapevine Mills, and while it's not much good as a movie, it poses...
Analog Imagery
Not too long ago, a professional wedding photographer walked into Don’s Used Photo Equipment, a hole-in-the-wall camera store in Dallas’ Design District, after having...
Step Up: Flash Dance
For all the talk about how 3D has changed action thrillers and inflated box-office totals, one thing we haven’t seen yet is musicals putting...
Bonus Film Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
Here I find myself in the same position I was in with the seventh Harry Potter movie. Like that next-to-last film in a series,...
Film Shorts
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C.O.G. (R) Kyle Patrick Alvarez adapts David Sedaris’ short story about a young writer (Jonathan Groff) who has his romantic notions about life picked...
King of Beers
We’re not too late to declare the comedy of the summer, are we? Good, because The World’s End is not only the season’s funniest...
Film Shorts
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Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (PG-13) Tom Cruise returns as a secret agent who’s forced to go rogue after his organization is ...
R.I.P., Kaneto Shindô
Sad but not unexpected news comes to us from Japan: Yesterday, filmmaker Kaneto Shindô passed away just a month after his 100th birthday. Contrary...
Random Observations on Fifty Shades of Grey
So I finally saw Fifty Shades of Grey. It was less terrible than I feared, but still fell well short of being good. Let’s...
