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Film Shorts // October 8-14, 2025

  OPENING   Beast of War (R) This Australian thriller is about a group of American soldiers shipwrecked at sea and preyed on by sharks. Starring Mark...

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

Hey, look! It’s an Oscar ceremony in March, just like we used to have every year. With all the attention on the Best Picture...

Kvetch

"If you're stupid enough to want a feel-good movie, go get yourself a foot massage," says Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) to the camera early...

Film Shorts // January 5-11, 2022

OPENING   American Siege (R) Yet another cop thriller starring Bruce Willis, this is about a small-town sheriff fighting a militia that takes a wealthy doctor...
Rust and Bones opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Rust and Bone (R) Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) adapts Craig Davidson’s short stories into this French-language romance between a Belgian MMA fighter (Matthias Schoenaerts)...

The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2019

If you need hope for the future of diversity in cinema, just look at the pictures accompanying my annual list of the directors who...

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

The latest firestorm to engulf the Oscar ceremony is the decision to relegate eight categories from the live TV broadcast to taped footage presented...
Maritza Santiago Hernandez braids Abbie Cornish's hair in "The Girl."

Watch the Woman, Not The Girl

Abbie Cornish is from Australia, and yet something about her makes filmmakers think of Texas. The blonde, apple-cheeked beauty already played a small-town Texas...

Summer Movie Preview

Let’s skip past the introductory paragraph and dive right in. The horror movie series from the 1980s are in no small part responsible for...

Booksmart: Wildin’ Out

A little more than 11 years ago, Superbad came out, and amid the general appreciation for that classic of teen raunch, some people fairly...