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Mark Wahlberg tries to make it out of Afghanistan in Lone Survivor.

SEALs on the Ground

I’m trying to figure out whether Peter Berg is a formerly promising filmmaker who has turned into a hack, or if that early promise...

The Best Movie Dialogue of 2013

I’ve said it before, but I love compiling this post every year. (Here’s last year’s post.) Instead of citing the best movie scripts of...

The Best Lead Performances of 2013

You may be surprised that I’ve relegated a number of Oscar-contending performances to the honorable mentions here. That’s because I ran into the same...

The Best Supporting Performances of 2013

Continuing my recap of the year in movies, here are the best supporting performances I saw in 2013. Usually the men get the better...
"Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (R) Andrew Jacobs stars in the fifth installment of the found-footage horror series. Also with Molly Ephraim, Richard Cabral,...
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in the best film of 2013, 12 Years a Slave.

Top 10 Movies of ’13

Here’s how strong 2013’s movies were: Nebraska, Enough Said, The East, and The Wolf of Wall Street aren’t even cracking my honorable mention list,...

The Best Movie Moments of 2013

Welcome to my list of the greatest moments in the movies of 2013. I don’t do this list every year, but this year I...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (PG-13) Idris Elba stars in this biopic of the late South African leader. Also with Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge,...
North Texas actor Frank Mosley lives off the land in Nelson’s feature debut, Some Beasts.

Some Beasts: Land to Celluloid

In 2009 writer-director Cameron Bruce Nelson moved to Fort Worth to marry his longtime girlfriend, after a three-year post-college stint working on an organic...
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill try to keep it together after consuming lots of drugs in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Jordan Rules

This I know about The Wolf of Wall Street: It’s not Martin Scorsese’s best movie, but it’s certainly his funniest. It really is a shame...