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Hanna and the Company
Our action thrillers right now seem to be awash in young girls who are stone cold killers. The odd British entry Hanna is the...
Unoriginal Gangster
The shortcomings of American Gangster are right there in the title. It’s the latest film by Ridley Scott, a director who long ago was...
Mufasa: The Lion Sings
Male lions are full of crap. They roar, they have manes that look cool in photographs, and they fight among themselves for control of...
Film Shorts
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Bernie (PG-13) Based on a real-life murder case, Richard Linklater’s film stars Jack Black as a small-town Texas mortician who kills a wealthy widow...
House of the Dragon Recap, Episode 8: King Midas in Reverse
Prior to Game of Thrones’ debut, I remember selling it to a friend with a low threshold for swords and sorcery as “like The...
Mud: A Clear Vision
In his previous film, Take Shelter, filmmaker Jeff Nichols relied on subtle direction and the exigencies of financial peril to ground the apocalyptic, magical...
The Karate Kid: Kung Fu Shuffle
All right, this is bugging me: Why is this movie entitled The Karate Kid? I understand why the filmmakers would want to keep the...
They Call Me Warrior
The powers that be are marketing Warrior as a mixed-martial arts movie, but it’s not really about MMA any more than The Social Network...
Pianos on the Screen, and One in the Lobby
Spotted last weekend at Rave Motion Pictures Ridgmar 13: A classical pianist playing a baby grand piano in the lobby. The west Fort Worth...
Miss Juneteenth: Right on Time
And so it came to pass that after three solid weeks of protests against racial violence by the police and a vote by the...
