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Bonus Film Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Unfortunately, the biggest accomplishment of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is to draw attention to the Ben Fountain novel that it's based on. That...
Film Shorts
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Bleed for This (R) Miles Teller stars in this biography of boxing champion Vinny Pazienza. Also with Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal, Ciarán Hinds, and...
Bonus Film Review: The Edge of Seventeen
We’ve gotten used to seeing Hailee Steinfeld portray unusually self-assured girls in True Grit and Begin Again and Pitch Perfect 2, so it’s a...
Bonus Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
One thing that was always missing from the Harry Potter books and movies was the Americans. J.K. Rowling alluded to differences in the ways...
Lone Star Film Festival Wrap-Up
I started off the festival's final day by attending a screening of the 1991 Disney musical of Beauty and the Beast. I was half...
Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 3)
The Lone Star Film Festival is benefiting from the renovations that the AMC Palace movie theater completed just before last year's fest. The reduced...
Lone Star Film Festival Report (Days 1-2)
Here we go with our coverage of the 10th annual Lone Star Film Festival. As I mentioned in my item for the Night &...
Film Shorts
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Almost Christmas (PG-13) A cast full of capable comic actors makes this warmed-over holiday dish palatable. Danny Glover stars as the recently widowed patriarch...
Moonlight: Black Boy, Blue Boy
Amid this current efflorescence of African-American cinema that we are lucky enough to be living through, there has been a curious void. Where is...
Arrival: Graphic Language
Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” is a terrific and well-nigh unfilmable piece of science fiction. Frequently told in the future tense, this lengthy...
