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Death at a Funeral: Back from the Grave
Marginally less annoying than the British movie that it’s based on, Death at a Funeral stars Chris Rock as a tax accountant/unpublished novelist named...
Film Shorts
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Death at a Funeral (R) Neil LaBute’s remake of the similarly titled 2007 British farce stars Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence as brothers who...
This Movie Is Kick-Ass
How do I describe the awesomeness of Kick-Ass? I could say this is the superhero flick that Watchmen desperately wanted to be, but that...
It’s Not a Wonderful After.Life
Eleven years ago, a great Japanese film came out in American theaters under the title After Life, a joyful meditation that imagined all of...
Shindig for Fort Worth Directors
To coincide with this weekend’s Dallas International Film Festival, The Butterfly Connection is hosting a reception/shindig/throwdown for North Texas filmmakers Tom Huckabee (Carried Away),...
Get “Fearless” at Main St.
There are a ton of great things to do at this weekend’s Main St. Arts Festival – so many, in fact, that you might...
Film Shorts
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After.Life (R) Christina Ricci stars in this supernatural thriller as a young woman who may or may not have died in a car accident...
Ragged Date Night for Carell and Fey
You’re probably going to see Date Night because of Steve Carell and Tina Fey. And why not? They seem like a terrific match because...
A Faulkner Story
This is the sort of thing that happens to first-time filmmakers working on a shoestring budget: While shooting his drama Between Heaven and Hell,...
A Sherlockian Nitpicks “Sherlock Holmes”
The crush of business at the end of last year prevented me from posting further thoughts on the Sherlock Holmes movie when it came...
