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Trippy Dick

Back in his heyday some 30 years ago, pulp author Philip K. Dick was the literary equivalent of a paranoid nut-job. Some of his...

Dining In

Why do animators on films like Monster House and The Polar Express spend so much energy trying to realistically render people? The wave of...

Night Swims

Lately, the “M” in M. Night Shyamalan has started to stand for “maddening.” Like his underappreciated previous film The Village, his current movie Lady...

The Patients of JOB

John Gray is one sick puppy, and he’s made quite a good living from his state of wry derangement. “Ever since I can remember, I...

The Fall of a Sparrow

There are filmmakers who look back wistfully on the Hollywood of the 1930s and ’40s, when the studios had directors and other creative personnel...

Murder in Suburbia

To begin with, Tommy Stovall is not related to Dave Stovall, the Fort Worth filmmaker and former president of the Lone Star Film Society....

All the Real Girls

My expectations were modest going into The Devil Wears Prada. The film is based on Lauren Weisberger’s dishy 2003 novel, which became a best-seller...

Look Up in the Sky

Forget the buzz that the latest Superman movie has a “Superman is gay” subtext. The real subtext of Superman Returns is that Superman is...

Hesses’ Messes

Nacho Libre is the second comedy from husband-and-wife filmmaking team Jared and Jerusha Hess, whose debut Napoleon Dynamite somehow became a huge hit two...

Thirteen

First of all, Keeping Up With the Steins isn’t to be confused with 2002’s Kissing Jessica Stein. Between the Judaism and the low-budget depictions...