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GasLand Drills for Answers
In December 2008, live-theater producer and filmmaker Josh Fox (his 2008 film, Memorial Day, was based on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal) was approached...
Film Shorts
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The Wolfman (R) Benicio del Toro stars as an American man who becomes a werewolf during a visit to Victorian England to find his...
Love Is All Around
Even before Valentine's Day has reached the theaters, gimlet-eyed observers are already comparing it to the 2003 British film Love Actually, both movies being...
Need a Lift?
The Sundance Film Festival may be known for earnest, small-scale dramas, but it also has been the launching pad for some brutally simple low-budget...
FW Director Wins Top Prize
Congrats to Fort Worth writer-director Tom Huckabee for winning ”Best Narrative Feature” at this weekend’s seventh annual Oxford Film Festival in Mississippi for his dark...
Film Shorts
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An Education (PG-13) This radiant and gently heartbreaking drama is one of 2009's best movies. The Oscar-nominated Carey Mulligan stars as a 16-year-old Londoner...
Letters to Savannah
In her recent, cautiously positive review of Extraordinary Measures, film critic Dana Stevens advanced the idea on Slate that the movie world's new guilty...
One-Part Drama
The key to understanding what's right and what's wrong with Edge of Darkness is knowing that it's based on a British TV miniseries. Our...
The Best Actors of 2009 (Non-Oscar edition)
I’m doing something different this year for my list of the best acting performances. I figured that you don’t need me to tell you...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2009
This post is for anyone who sat through the Transformers sequel and concluded that film writing is dead. I was privileged enough to see...
