We Shall Be Free
I screamed at somebody after I saw 12 Years a Slave. I don’t usually do that after a movie, but this fellow critic just...
Carrie On
A lot of moviegoers were outraged at the idea of making a second movie version of Stephen King’s novel Carrie. I understand the attachment...
Springing Leaks
Is Julian Assange a hero or a creep? Going into The Fifth Estate, I entertained both opinions about the founder of WikiLeaks. However, this...
Michael Cain’s New Start
Longview native Michael Cain remembers the drive-in theater he used to go to when he was a boy, where he saw everything from The...
Hostage at Sea
Most Americans, if they know Somalia at all, know it as one of the world’s really bad places to be. The recent terrorist attack...
Freezing Reign
Here’s something new for all you animation geeks out there. Outside of Hollywood, the countries of Japan and France have built rich traditions of...
Just Breathe
Some filmmakers inspire feelings of mystical reverence. Their works are so consistently high in quality, so seamless, so strange, and so committed to seeing...
Not Too Late
Amid all the publicity that Gravity is pulling in, let’s not lose track of Enough Said, which is expanding into local theaters this week....
Porn Again
What is it about Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the last week of September? For the third straight year (after last year’s Looper and 2011’s 50/50),...
Need for Speed
Many A-list Hollywood-trained directors from the 1980s and ’90s have fallen by the wayside; for every Steven Spielberg or Kathryn Bigelow, there’s a Rob...
