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LSIFF Report (Days 1-2)
Since I’m the only film writer covering this year’s Lone Star International Film Festival for the Weekly this year, I’m posting my coverage of...
Film Shorts
OPENING:
This Must Be the Place (NR) Sean Penn stars in this dramedy by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) about a retired rock star who returns...
Skyfall: The Divine Ms. M
One thing the James Bond series has been known for is the “Bond girls,” those hot women of various ethnicities and varying degrees of...
Iron Fists: Wu, No!
Before he called himself RZA and conquered a big swath of the hip-hop world, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs was a teenager in New York, escaping...
Catching Up With the Classics (Part 2)
Continuing the project that I started a few weeks ago, here are thoughts on more of the canonical films that eluded me until now....
Film Shorts
OPENING:
The Details (R) Jacob Aaron Estes (Mean Creek) writes and directs this black comedy about an unscrupulous doctor (Tobey Maguire) whose marriage and career...
Wreck-It Ralph: Pixel Sticks
We’ve seen much of Disney’s new animated film, Wreck-It Ralph, before. Movies like Despicable Me and Megamind have already spun traditional stories by adopting...
Flight: Get High
Some people make getting back in the swing of things look all too easy. Take Robert Zemeckis, who makes his return to live-action movies...
Lena Dunham Gives Right-Wingers Female Trouble
When writing a post like this, I become very much aware that there are no women writing regularly on this blog, now that Betty...
T-Rex Lived On Noah’s Ark: Film Recaps Texas Textbook Battle
Okay, today we'll start class with a pop quiz: What do hip-hop, evolution and Thomas Jefferson all have in common?
Answer: They were all stricken...
