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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Patricia Arquette reads one of the Harry Potter books to Ellar Coltrane early in Boyhood.

12 Years a Child

Matthew McConaughey explores a whole new world in Interstellar.

Wild Black Yonder

Superpowers Falter in the New X-Men

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Knives Out: Blanc Space

On the one hand, I wish Rian Johnson were directing the new Star Wars installment after the job he did on The Last Jedi....

One Sharp Machete

Before Machete was a real movie, it was a fake movie. For their 2007 double-bill Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino had four trailers...

She Movies

On March 22, 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière held a private screening in Paris of a film they made of workers leaving their factory....

Film Shorts // October 25-31, 2023

OPENING   After Death (PG-13) Stephen Gray and Chris Radtke’s documentary interviews people who have had near-death experiences. (Opens Friday) Among Wolves (NR) Trace Adkins and Jeff...

There’s No Place Like Rome

Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty picked up an Oscar last week for the Best Foreign Film, so its distributors are re-releasing it after it...

Lone Star Film Screens 1982’s “The Thing”

Someone at the Lone Star Film Society has great taste in B-movies. As part of its ArthouseFW series, the Society will screen John Carpenter’s...

A More Crowded Oscar Race

For more than 60 years, five films have been nominated each year for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Yesterday, the Academy announced that...
Ben Affleck makes his way through Khomeini’s Iran in Argo.

Argo, Psychopaths: Let’s Fake a Movie!

By coincidence, the titles of both movies this week refer to movies within the movies. Neither Argo nor Seven Psychopaths is really about the...

Film Shorts // November 2-8, 2022

OPENING   Aftersun (R) Charlotte Wells’ drama is about a 10-year-old Scottish girl (Frankie Corio) who takes a summer vacation in Turkey with her father (Paul...

Film Shorts // October 18-24, 2023

OPENING   Bhagavanth Kesari (NR) This Telugu-language action-comedy stars Nandamuri Balakrishna as a man whose professional and personal life are thrown into upheaval at once. Also...