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Court Ruling on “Bully” (Plus, The Cinema of Bullying)
A bit of news came down this past week related to Bully, which is still playing in Tarrant County. A federal district court judge...
Film Shorts
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Chernobyl Diaries (R) Jesse McCartney stars in this horror film as one of six tourists who hire a local tour guide (Dmitri Diatchenko) to...
Marigold Hotel: Indian Summer
We’ve all seen movies about British people who travel abroad to find their true selves. There is no shortage of examples, from the pretty...
Filming Mystics with Mark Hanshaw
Mark Hanshaw doesn’t sound like a filmmaker. Instead of talking in sales pitches, this professor of religion at Texas Wesleyan University is happy to...
Film Shorts
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Battleship (PG-13) Based on the popular board game, Peter Berg’s thriller is about a fleet of ships dealing with the threat posed by space...
The Not-So-Great Dictator
I jumped the gun on calling this once before, but now it truly appears that Sacha Baron Cohen has become too famous to keep...
What to Expect: Friends with Kids
Ah, the advice-book movie! The last 10 years have seen a trend of Hollywood piggybacking off the popularity of self-help books through similarly titled...
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Bernie (PG-13) Based on a real-life murder case, Richard Linklater’s film stars Jack Black as a small-town Texas mortician who kills a wealthy widow...
Dark Shadows: Angelique Diabolique
It takes peculiar talent to make the Goth crowd laugh. Back in 1988, Tim Burton did just that with Beetlejuice, which marked him as...
Girl in Progress: All About My Mother
And still no one has discovered a reliable way to draw Latino audiences to movie theaters the way Tyler Perry has been able to...
