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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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Circle of Sadness

Awards season fills me with dread. It’s not really a “hot take” to point out that watching beautiful people in incredibly expensive clothes hobnob...

Film Shorts // March 15-21, 2023

OPENING   All the World Is Sleeping (NR) This drama stars Melissa Barrera as a drug addict who tries to get clean while raising her daughter....

Odds and Ends

I didn’t do this feature last year because I didn’t have enough entries to make a whole article about it. It’s returning with a...

Additional Screaming

I keep being suckered by these Scream movies. Each time, I go in thinking that this time they’ll finally get the formula right, and...

Oscar’s Gold

My editor asked me to do something different this year and analyze all the major categories at the Academy Awards instead of just the...

Film Shorts // March 8-14, 2023

OPENING   Champions (PG-13) A remake of a Spanish movie called Campeones, this sports comedy just manages to stay this side of watchable. Woody Harrelson plays...

Creed III: Grudge Match

About 20 years ago, I read a movie review in the Star-Telegram saying that actors tended to hit age 40 before making their debuts as...

Film Shorts // March 1-7, 2023

OPENING   Blueback (PG) Mia Wasikowska stars in this drama as a scuba diver who takes on blue grouper poachers off the coast of Western Australia....

The Last of Us: Mushroom Cloud

Most of the video games I play are related to sports, but when I upgraded to a PlayStation 3 a decade ago, I asked...

Film Shorts // February 22-28, 2023

OPENING   Bunker (R) This horror movie set during World War I is about a group of soldiers trapped together who are turned against one another...