Considering Taraji P. Henson
Like many of you, I just got through the season finale of Empire after enough stuff happened in the first 12 episodes to make...
R.I.P., James Gandolfini
When I heard that James Gandolfini passed away yesterday, I didn't think about his performance as Tony Soprano. I thought about a much earlier...
Considering Anna Faris
I spent Saturday watching Anna Faris host a pretty good episode of Saturday Night Live that she didn’t contribute much to. Coming on the...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2021
This year’s feature on the best movie dialogue is unusually heavy on monologues. I wish I knew what that meant. I do still enjoy...
“A Dirty Shame” Redux
The Sundance Channel has screened John Waters’ underappreciated 2004 comedy “A Dirty Shame” several times over the past month. (Another showing is scheduled January...
Sonny Carl Davis on Windsor, Alamo, Evil Bong, Willie Nelson
Sometime back in the early 1990s I stumbled across Last Night at the Alamo (1983), an obscure black-and-white film directed by the tortured Texas...
Oscar-Nominated Actress Candy Clark Revisits Trimble Tech
Fort Worth's Candy Clark couldn't wait to skip town when she was a teenager in 1965 and freshly graduated from Fort Worth Technical High...
Lone Star Film Festival Calls It A Wrap
Mister Sundance Square seemed to be everywhere at the just completed four-day Fort Worth Film Festival.
Downtown developer Ed Bass was particularly easy to spot...
Nick Krause On Hollywood, Austin, George Clooney, Madelyn Deutch
People warned me that watching a movie being shot is like watching sap run down a tree. However, what they described as slow, methodical,...
Happy Birthday, Gene Kelly
If you attended the screening of Singin' in the Rain last Wednesday, you know that 2012 not only marks the 60th anniversary of that...
