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Thursday, April 2, 2026

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"The Place Beyond the Pines" opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Place Beyond the Pines (R) This drama written and directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) stars Ryan Gosling as a bank robber on...
Stephen Dorff stars as a reluctant hitman in David Jacobson’s thriller.

Florence Nightingale

Lacking much in the way of star power, Tomorrow You’re Gone might well be a mystery to audiences when it opens this Friday in...
The Blaze brothers are still awaiting word on whether they’ve received a scholarship for their first short film, "The Morning’s Cold."

Dual Blazes

Conducting a phone interview with the Blaze brothers turns out to be somewhat difficult. It’s not because 18-year-old Nathan and 17-year-old Jon are reluctant...
G.I. Joe: Retaliation opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13) The sequel to the 2010 action movie has the remnants of the commando force being hunted by their own government...
Maritza Santiago Hernandez braids Abbie Cornish's hair in "The Girl."

Watch the Woman, Not The Girl

Abbie Cornish is from Australia, and yet something about her makes filmmakers think of Texas. The blonde, apple-cheeked beauty already played a small-town Texas...
Gael García Bernal poses in front of his ad campaign’s rainbow flag in No.

The No Has It

Where advertising and politics meet, movies usually turn cynical and satiric. Political ads foul our airwaves, reduce complex policies to soundbites, pander to our...

Considering Park Chan-wook

The widening out of Park Chan-wook’s Stoker into Tarrant County theaters this weekend is a good time to revisit — or acquaint yourself with...
On the Road opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING: On the Road (R) Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) adapts Jack Kerouac’s novel about a young writer (Sam Riley) who takes a road trip...
Nicole Kidman and the family secrets are spied on by Mia Wasikowska in Stoker.

Stoker: India and Korea

A few months ago, I wrote about the wave of South Korean filmmakers coming to America. That wave reaches much higher tide with Stoker,...
Tina Fey has a bit of trouble coping with her life and work in "Admission."

I Accept Admission

Like all right-thinking persons, I adore Tina Fey. Yet for all her glorious work on TV, she still hasn’t made the great comedy film...