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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...
Quinn Shephard On Windsor, Texas, Twang, Jersey Shore
Texans don’t know what to think of New Yorkers half the time. That TV commercial wasn’t far off the mark, the one where a...
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,...
Film Shorts
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (NR) Originally made as two movies, each telling the story of a romantic relationship from a different character’s viewpoint,...
Shiva the Destroyer
When I read Jonathan Tropper’s novel This Is Where I Leave You, I wasn’t all that impressed with it, but I figured it could...
Goo Goo G’joob
OK, I’ve seen some bizarre horror movies in my time, but Tusk is definitely the strangest one of all. I’ve seen scarier ones and...
Frontera Opens in Dallas This Weekend
Earlier this summer, Edward Brown and I co-wrote a feature story about Fort Worth-based actor Julio Cedillo that was pegged to Frontera, in which...
Film Shorts
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Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? (PG-13) Does anyone still care at this point? Starring Kristoffer Polaha, Laura Regan, Peter Mackenzie, Larry Cedar, Joaquim...
The Drop: Streetlight People
It’s likely that the late James Gandolfini’s performance in The Drop will be lauded in tearfully hyperbolic fashion, maybe even to the point where...
Princess of Whales
They say that comedy can be highly culturally specific, and I can tell you it’s true after staring uncomprehendingly at the Korean movie Miss...
