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ParaNorman’s Activity
All right! This is how I like my animated kids’ movies — intelligent, funny, and scary enough to keep you up at night. ParaNorman...
Timothy Green: Autumn Leaves
The word “odd” is entirely appropriate in the title of The Odd Life of Timothy Green. This family-oriented movie has the bad luck to...
Four Obituary Notices
A number of people whose work has caught my interest over the years have passed away recently, and while I let a couple of...
Film Shorts
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The Bourne Legacy (PG-13) Jeremy Renner stars as a new secret agent who comes out of the same CIA program as Jason Bourne. Also...
Ruby Sparks: Dreamgirl
When you hear the plot of Ruby Sparks, you’ll think you’ve heard it before. You’ll be right, in a sense — the story’s roots...
Fizzy Campaign
When we last left Will Ferrell, he was starring in Casa de mi Padre, an intriguing though failed experiment in genre parody. His new...
“Sight & Sound” Crowns New Greatest Film Ever
So everybody in the film world is buzzing about Sight & Sound’s new poll of the greatest films ever, which the British publication has...
Rebooting Total Recall
On paper, remaking Total Recall is a better idea than restarting the Spider-Man series. The original film came out back in 1990, and while...
Film Shorts
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Ruby Sparks (R) Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) direct this comedy about a struggling novelist (Paul Dano) who magically conjures a...
Animal Kingdom
The wildly original Beasts of the Southern Wild comes to Grapevine this week toting a host of critical hosannas and an eye-catching haul of...
