I Will Survive
Richard Curtis’ time-travel comedy About Time expands to Fort Worth this week (see Film Shorts), and it exhorts us to live each day as...
Tiger Burning Bright
When you think of t’ai chi, you probably think of old Chinese people in a park making slow, sweeping, graceful movements with their arms....
Turkey Time
Even with the advent of computers, it takes so much effort by so many people to make an animated film. That’s why even substandard...
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...
