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On the Line
Denton-born and -raised filmmaker and actor Laurence Maher is new to the experience of being interviewed by the press, so he thinks hard about...
We’ll Take Manhattan
Reading Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen today, it's striking how this 1985 masterpiece has penetrated to the marrow of countless movies,...
Dogs of War
The genre-busting animated documentary Waltz With Bashir was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but last week it lost to the Japanese...
Mad Money
Madea Goes to Jail is Tyler Perry's seventh film as writer or director in only four years. In that short period of time, his...
But I’m a Cheer-leader
Fired Up is a comedy about cheerleading, which immediately places it in danger of being overshadowed. The makers of this film find a creative...
Compañero
The prospect of a four-and-a-half hour film about Ernesto "Ché" Guevara is enough to make everyone quail except unreconstructed Latin American Communists and the...
Financial Times
It's easy to read too much into the similarities between a movie and the moment that it comes out. Two markedly different movies out...
KP Duty
Unlike most of the local filmmakers I profile, John Venable is someone I've known for a long time. That's because he's a film critic...
Eye Popper
For Hollywood this year, 3-D filmmaking seems to be the new old wave. At least 12 more 3-D movies are slated to hit our...
Not So Minny Laughs
The whole time I was watching New in Town, I was wondering why Renée Zellweger didn't fit her role. In this throwaway comedy she...
