I Dream a World
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Black History Month. Had I been reviewing movies back in February 1976, I likely would have marked...
Online Film Critics Select OBAA as Best Picture
Two weeks ago, I said I would have the Online Film Critics Society's picks for 2025's best achievements in filmmaking. Now, here they are....
No Other Choice: Making Paper
Ask most people to name a film by Park Chan-wook, and they’ll say Oldboy. That movie came out more than 20 years ago, a...
Online Film Critics Announce Nominations
This is my first year voting for the Online Film Critics Society Awards, and yesterday they announced their nominations for 2025's movies. Unlike other...
Open Netflix House
North Texas is morphing into a fierce competitor in the interactive-entertainment industry.
The region is already the birthplace of massive video game franchises, including DOOM, Duke...
Weird Wednesday
Everything about Weird Wednesday, the monthly secret film series at Southside Preservation Hall run by Fort Worth Community Cinema, goes against how movie marketing...
The Top 10
Who was it who said that a critic’s year-end Top 10 list isn’t really a list of their 10 favorite films? Rather, it deliberately...
Peanuts for Christmas
Is there anything left to say about A Charlie Brown Christmas? Since it first aired on CBS 60 years ago this month, the 25-minute...
Crude Oil
Every show deserves some time to find itself and its audience. The first season of Paramount+’s Landman was a polished primetime drama that didn’t need...
Avatar: Flame War
Avatar: Fire and Ash opens with a filmed statement by James Cameron and his actors warning against the dangers of artificial intelligence taking over the...
