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After several decades’ worth of movie directors’ sons taking up their fathers’ line of work, now we’re seeing directors’ daughters do the same, and...
Penn’s States
“Why are you interviewing me?” Lindsay Penn suddenly asked me in the middle of our recent talk. She wasn’t asking out of false modesty...
Considering Anna Faris
I spent Saturday watching Anna Faris host a pretty good episode of Saturday Night Live that she didn’t contribute much to. Coming on the...
“Footloose”: Actor by Actor
Chris Penn and Kevin Bacon, 1984
Miles Teller and Kenny Wormald, 2011
I wanted to compare and contrast the actors playing the same roles in each...
Film Shorts
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The Thing (R) The third film version of this story about a group of scientists at the South Pole who discover an alien...
Footloose: Almost Paradise
Like many of you, I had zero expectations for the remake of Footloose. The original 1984 film has already had a second life as...
The Big Year: First-Degree Birders
I am not a birder, but I can sympathize with them. Check me out in early December when I’m frantically tracking down Greek experimental...
Film Shorts
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The Way (PG-13) Emilio Estevez writes, directs, and co-stars in this drama about an American (Martin Sheen) who determines to walk El ...
Rainbos Over Nelson
Fort Worth filmmaker Cameron Bruce Nelson, 29, didn’t always want to be a writer-director. In fact, he only got into filmmaking after graduating from...
Ides of March: Then Fall Caesar
There’s a difference between coolness and coldness. As an actor, George Clooney is cool, and the even-keeled assurance he projects onscreen often informs the...
