Lone Star Images
Caroline Frick started the Texas Archive of the Moving Image in her tiny apartment in Austin in 2002. “It was a surreal, bootstrap kind...
Heavy Seas
Don’t confuse The Finest Hours with These Final Hours. The latter is an Australian movie about the apocalypse that I reviewed last spring. The...
Bears Repeating
The previous installments of the Kung Fu Panda series came out in the summer, but Kung Fu Panda 3 is timed to Chinese New...
Odds and Ends
I watched even more movies this year (more than 300!) than usual, which afforded me more opportunities to see weird and wacky smaller films....
Women in Love
There’s a proud tradition of gay male film directors who make their best movies about women: George Cukor, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, François...
Masked and Anomalous
It so happens that this week’s Film page features two movies that played at last November’s Lone Star Film Festival. Carol was the main...
Unbreakable Glass
Look, I get why people are losing their minds over The Revenant. It looks amazing and has much else to recommend it besides. Still,...
Despicable We
The first thing you’ll see in The Hateful Eight is an overture. It’s a title card shown over several minutes’ worth of mood-setting music...
The Top 10
This year’s movies brought us Life, Love, Youth, and Joy, as well as a bunch of films about women that wound up dominating this...
Christmas Movie Roundup
As is the case most Christmases, this week has tons of movies dropping into the multiplexes for the holiday, so I’m publishing a guide...
