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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Film Shorts

Dear John Letter

The Blaze brothers are still awaiting word on whether they’ve received a scholarship for their first short film, "The Morning’s Cold."

Dual Blazes

Film Shorts

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Peek-a-Boo

Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve just run across the first genuinely Satanic movie of my life. Lots of horror flicks traffic in mere demonic trappings...

Film Shorts

OPENING The Disappointments Room (R) Kate Beckinsale stars in this horror film as a mother who unleashes supernatural forces in the attic or her new...

Film Shorts // July 20-26, 2022

OPENING   La Abuela (R) This Spanish horror film stars Almudena Amor as a Paris fashion model who must return home to Madrid when her grandmother...

Film Shorts // March 17-23, 2021

OPENING   City of Lies (R) This thriller by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) is about an ex-cop (Johnny Depp) and a reporter (Forest Whitaker) who...

Spirit Untamed: Even Cowgirls Give the Blues

Back in 2002, I saw Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and then more-or-less instantly forgot everything about it except for Bryan Adams singing (which...

Dunkirk: Death’s a Beach

Maybe I'm just fated to go through life admiring Christopher Nolan's movies more than I like them. Good thing I admire them a hell...

Gloria in Excelsis

This Sebastián Lelio doesn’t let the moss gather. The Chilean director has now put out four films made in three countries in a span...

Emma.: Make Me a Match

A few months ago, I mused about how new generations have new versions of Little Women to pick over. Why not do the same...

Shiny Penny

Penelope is one of those movies that looks really bad on paper. A PG-rated female self-empowerment fable about an anatomical freak seeking the happiness that...
Insurgent

Out of Faction

Example No. 54,903,812 of the movie industry’s glass ceiling: While Hollywood is coming around at a snail’s pace to the idea that a fantasy-adventure...