Mark Hulme’s Way
A Fort Worth native now based in Dallas, Mark Hulme has spent much of his first 50 or so years building a publishing business....
Warm Bodies: My Heart Skips a Beat
The field is unexpectedly crowded when it comes to zombie movies that are funny. If Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies falls short of the magnificent...
Stand Up Guys: Last Valentine
To be clear, Stand Up Guys is not about comedians telling jokes in nightclubs. Instead, it’s a shaggy drama about two retired New Jersey...
Amour, Quartet: Old Wave
Movies tend to neglect seniors as subjects. This is neither a recent phenomenon, nor is it a Hollywood thing. Filmmakers and audiences everywhere have...
Last Stand: Defending the Border
With the release of The Last Stand this week, a Korean wave finally reaches our shores. Much the way a trio of talented and...
Gregory Crewdson: Motionless Pictures
For whatever reason, 2012 has yielded a bumper crop of documentary films about prominent artists: Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, and Gerhard Richter have all...
Zero Dark Thirty: Tortured Logic
OK, everyone. Here it is, the movie where Osama bin Laden bites the big one. And yeah, it’s also topping lots of film critics’...
Gangster Squad: Old Hats
As you’ve probably heard, Gangster Squad was supposed to arrive in theaters last September, but it was also supposed to include a scene (visible...
Top 10 Movies
I don’t have enough slots! That’s always a nice problem to have when making a list of the year’s best movies. Even taking into...
Les Misérables: Do You Hear the Actors Sing?
I’ve never been a fan of Les Misérables, the Broadway musical, and the movie version reminded me of all the reasons: the bombast, the...
