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Sunday, August 17, 2025

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Film Shorts

OPENING Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (NR) Spike Lee’s remake of Bill Gunn’s 1973 blaxploitation film Ganja & Hess stars Stephen Tyrone Williams as a...

Considering Chuck Jones

I wore my Bugs Bunny tie to the press preview of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s Chuck Jones exhibit, and I...

Random Observations on Fifty Shades of Grey

So I finally saw Fifty Shades of Grey. It was less terrible than I feared, but still fell well short of being good. Let’s...

Film Shorts

OPENING Song of the Sea (PG) Nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, this Irish film by Tomm Moore (The Book of Kells) is...
Still Alice

Losing My Mind

Julianne Moore looks like a mortal lock to pick up an Oscar next week for her performance in Still Alice, an honor that she...
The Kingsman

My Deadly Valentine

I see it now. There are two Matthew Vaughns. In one corner, we have Good Boy Matthew Vaughn, the British director who brought icy...
Mommy

Beautiful Boy

I’d like to take a minute to introduce you to someone. Xavier Dolan started out as a child actor in his native Canada, and...
Spongebob

Soak Up the Screen

I’ll admit this right now: I’ve never seen a single episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. I just never found the time, and my experience of...
Duke of Burgundy

Film Shorts

OPENING The Duke of Burgundy (NR) Like Fifty Shades of Grey, but a lot more lesbic. This drama by Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) stars...
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A Marvel Experience … for the Kiddos

Waiting to enter the first dome –– of The Marvel Experience’s total of seven –– may make you feel as if you’re about to...