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DVD Review: “Meek’s Cutoff”
About halfway through Meek’s Cutoff, 19th-century Oregon settler Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams) is gathering firewood. One of a small party traveling on the Oregon...
Film Shorts // April 12-18, 2023
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (R) Based on Daniel Malm’s book, this thriller is about a West Texas rancher (Jake Weary) who teams...
30 Minutes or Less: Delivery Boom
Some young thespians bag their first Academy Award nomination and morph into Serious Actors who do only prestige projects intended to win them the...
Lady Bird: So Long, Sacramento
The first time I was blown away by Saoirse Ronan, it wasn't by her performance in Atonement, which earned her her first Oscar nomination...
Bonus Film Reviews
My Film page this week was a casualty of the early deadlines facing our Best of Fort Worth issue. Usually at least one really...
Film Shorts
OPENING
Blockers (R) The movie that Neighbors 2 was trying to be. This raunchy sex comedy stars John Cena and Leslie Mann as parents who...
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...
Happy Birthday, Gene Kelly
If you attended the screening of Singin' in the Rain last Wednesday, you know that 2012 not only marks the 60th anniversary of that...
Banshees: Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Martin McDonagh became famous for his stage plays set in his native Ireland such as The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lieutenant of...
LSIFF Report (Days 1-2)
Since I’m the only film writer covering this year’s Lone Star International Film Festival for the Weekly this year, I’m posting my coverage of...
