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Dinosaur 13 opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Dinosaur 13 (PG) Todd Douglas Miller’s documentary about the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found. (Opens Friday in Dallas) The Admiral: Roaring Currents (NR) Kim...
Brendan Gleeson prepares to tend to his spiritual duties in Calvary.

Crosses to Bear

Brendan Gleeson has acted in many Hollywood and British movies, but only the filmmakers in his native Ireland seem to have really figured out...
Jeff Bridges shows Brenton Thwaites a way out of their dystopia in The Giver.

Conceal, Don’t Feel

Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver famously took 20 years to come to the big screen, and when I caught up to it a few...

R.I.P., Robin Williams

I was at the advance screening of The Giver last night that featured red-carpet interviews with the film's stars, and Jeff Bridges burst into...

Nanu Nanu, Bye Bye Robin Williams

Robin Williams splashed colorfully -- literally -- into pop culture in 1978 as Mork, wearing a bright red alien suit with a silver upside-down...
Calvary opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Calvary (R) John Michael McDonagh (The Guard) writes and directs this thriller about an Irish Catholic priest (Brendan Gleeson) who hears in confession that...
Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan share an umbrella in What If.

Taken

The romantic comedy What If is adapted from T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi’s play Toothpaste and Cigars. I’ve never seen the play, but somehow...
Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Michael Pitt regard a white peacock in I Origins.

More Than Meets the “I”

In a fresh look at a tired argument, director Mike Cahill adds his flavor to the ongoing evolution-versus-creationism battle with I Origins, and after...
Child of God opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Child of God (R) James Franco directs, writes, and co-stars in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel about a man (Scott Haze) who tries...
Patricia Arquette reads one of the Harry Potter books to Ellar Coltrane early in Boyhood.

12 Years a Child

Bless him, Richard Linklater has never been afraid to experiment with the medium of cinema. The revolving protagonists of Slacker, the deliberate formlessness of...