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Drive-Ins of the Dead
Every Halloween season, this boy’s fancy turns to... the memory of drive-in movie theaters around North Texas. I spent quite a few 1970s childhood...
Spike Lee and “Good Hair”
When I was watching Good Hair, I was disappointed that the filmmakers didn't use this clip from Spike Lee's 1990 collegiate musical School Daze,...
Film Shorts
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Amelia (PG) Hilary Swank stars in Mira Nair's biography of the aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Also with Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson,...
Stylin’
Chris Rock explains the premise of Good Hair right at the beginning. While photographs of his two young daughters fill the screen, he says,...
Astro Bore
There's a part in the 2004 Disney/Pixar hit The Incredibles when super-human boy-speedster Dash catches himself accidentally running on water. As any 10-year-old would,...
Movie Piracy Blues
More than a dozen years ago, I was one of two official film critics for another publication. What innocent days those were. They were...
Film Shorts
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (R) Uli Edel's film dramatizes the left-wing group whose terrorist bombings rocked West Germany in the 1970s. Starring Moritz Bleibtreu,...
To the Max
What you'll probably notice about writer-director Spike Jonze's long-anticipated Where the Wild Things Are is that a lot is missing: cheap pop-culture references, self-conscious...
Ballin’ Buddies
The first time you see NBA star LeBron James in More Than a Game, he's a grinning, gawky pre-teen, which is sort of endearing....
Film Shorts
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Coco Before Chanel (PG-13) Audrey Tautou stars in this biography of the French fashion giant, written and directed by Anne Fontaine (The Girl From...
