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Saturday, April 4, 2026

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Iran Arrests Filmmaker

Oh, this can't be good. The reports coming out of Iran say that movie director Jafar Panahi has been detained at an undisclosed location...

Winter Olympic Thoughts (the Games close)

In the last event of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Sidney Crosby scored an overtime goal for Team Canada to beat USA in the gold...

Arts Lovers

A major theme in Circle Theatre’s current production of Michael Hollinger’s “Opus” – to be reviewed next week – is how romance can fuel,...

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Ghost Writer (PG-13) Roman Polanski's adaptation of Robert Harris' novel stars Ewan McGregor as a writer who learns some dangerous information while working...

Tolstoy Finds The Last Station

When he died, Leo Tolstoy was basically an old hippie. Immensely rich and famous from authoring War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the Russian...

Butterscotch Isn’t Sweet

Bart van Bemmel talks quickly, and I'm not sure whether that's how he usually rolls or whether it's because he's eager to tell me...

Unhappy Haneke

When you watch slasher flicks and other movies that kill off innocent characters like ants, do you feel bad for those onscreen victims? Do you...

“Fearless” in 2010

North Texas filmmakers have a little less than a month to submit their short flicks (20 minutes or less, please) for the fourth annual...

Film Shorts

OPENING: Shutter Island (R) Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as U.S. marshals sent to investigate the disappearance...

North Carolina Burning

It all started with a casual remark. In 1970, Timothy Tyson was an 11-year-old white boy growing up in Oxford, N.C., when one of...