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Don’t Rock the Boat
The opening credit sequence of Pirate Radio fooled me momentarily into thinking I was being shown a trailer for the movie rather than the...
Stay Off the Liquor, Twi-Hards
I don't know about this: Now restaurants and bars with Buzztime are featuring Twilight trivia on Fridays during the month of November. Um, do...
Film Short
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The Box (PG-13) Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) adapts Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button" about a financially strapped couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden)...
I Taped an Alien
If The Fourth Kind had come out next spring, we could have dismissed it as a Johnny-come-lately rip-off of Paranormal Activity. Coming out now,...
Local Films Shine
Fort Worth's historic Como neighborhood has been a source of great stories for decades, and now it's the subject of a short independent documentary...
Ewoks on the Wild Side
The ewoks from 1983’s “Return of the Jedi” were largely responsible for cooling my passion for the original “Star Wars” franchise. Cute and mischevious...
Coen Brothers Hold True Grit Auditions at Billy Bob’s
Paramount Pictures and the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; The Big Lebowski) are remaking...
Film Shorts
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The Canyon (R) Eion Bailey and Yvonne Strahovski star in this thriller as a couple who get lost while taking a mule tour of...
Tsuris
I'm not ashamed to say it: A Serious Man confused the hell out of me. Most confusing movies are that way because they're poorly...
Captain Kitty
Film can be a transformative experience. After all, if not for pulp serials, George Lucas might have ended up as a hot-rod mechanic. In...
