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Sunday, April 5, 2026

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Oscar-Nominated Actress Candy Clark Revisits Trimble Tech

Fort Worth's Candy Clark couldn't wait to skip town when she was a teenager in 1965 and freshly graduated from Fort Worth Technical High...

Bonus Film Review: “Short Term 12”

Do not miss Short Term 12 when it plays at the Modern this weekend, for it has the best female lead performance I’ve seen...
The Counselor opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Counselor (R) Cormac McCarthy’s debut as a screenwriter is this Ridley Scott-directed thriller about a lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who gets involved in drug-trafficking....
Chiwetel Ejiofor stands up under interrogation by Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave.

We Shall Be Free

I screamed at somebody after I saw 12 Years a Slave. I don’t usually do that after a movie, but this fellow critic just...
Chloë Grace Moretz wreaks her vengeance on her high-school's senior class in Carrie.

Carrie On

A lot of moviegoers were outraged at the idea of making a second movie version of Stephen King’s novel Carrie. I understand the attachment...

Barry Corbin In Indie Flick That Premieres Friday In Southlake

Colorful actor and Handley resident Barry Corbin is among the many Texans featured in Beyond the Farthest Star, an independent film being released on Friday. The...
Carrie opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Carrie (R) The second big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the bullied high-school girl who can move things with...
Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Brühl take up a crusade for the truth in The Fifth Estate.

Springing Leaks

Is Julian Assange a hero or a creep? Going into The Fifth Estate, I entertained both opinions about the founder of WikiLeaks. However, this...

Michael Cain’s New Start

Longview native Michael Cain remembers the drive-in theater he used to go to when he was a boy, where he saw everything from The...

R.I.P., Stanley Kauffmann

The news on Wednesday of Stanley Kauffmann’s death at age 97 sent me scurrying back to his film criticism. Having previously reviewed theater and...