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Saturday, April 18, 2026

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Film Shorts

OPENING A Bad Idea Gone Wrong (NR) Filmed in Fort Worth, Jason Headley’s comedy is about two novice criminals (Matt Jones and Will Rogers) who...

Film Shorts

OPENING The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG) Dan Stevens overacts rather badly in this biography of Charles Dickens and the manic few weeks he spent...

Lady Bird: So Long, Sacramento

The first time I was blown away by Saoirse Ronan, it wasn't by her performance in Atonement, which earned her her first Oscar nomination...

Coco: Música en Muerto

The question that has shadowed animation fans for decades has been, “Why doesn’t Pixar do a musical?” This became especially true after Pixar acquired...

Justice League: Come Together

By now, you've probably heard that in the comic-book world, it was DC Comics who first got the idea to put their superheroes together...

Film Shorts

OPENING Almost Friends (NR) Freddie Highmore stars in this dramedy as an unmotivated slacker who falls for a woman (Odeya Rush) despite the fact that...

Lone Star Film Festival Wrap

I overdosed on earnest, confessional dramas at this festival. Another one waited in store for me on Saturday afternoon with Laura Gets a Cat,...

Lone Star Film Festival Report (Days 1-2)

I’m back with my annual blog recounting my experiences at the Lone Star Film Festival. This year’s event looks even lighter on star power...

Orient Express: Strangers on a Train

Kenneth Branagh’s new version of Murder on the Orient Express feels curiously old-fashioned. Not because it’s set in 1934, but because Branagh is taking...

Film Shorts

OPENING BPM (NR) This French historical drama stars Arnaud Valois as a gay HIV-positive man in the 1990s who joins an activist movement to force...