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Let Him Go: Badlanders

Many classic Westerns were really just thrillers in disguise. You can still find some of those, but recently filmmakers have used the genre as...

Lone Star Film Festival Preview

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in just about every film festival either being canceled (Telluride) or moving online (Cannes). This year’s edition of the...

Entering Bly Manor

In 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House, director Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Doctor Sleep) used the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name as a...

Film Shorts

OPENING   The Guardian of Memory (NR) Marcela Arteaga’s documentary profiles Texas immigration lawyer Carlos Spector and his efforts to obtain asylum for Mexican immigrants fleeing...

Come Play: With a Friend Like Larry

It’s logical that horror movies would introduce disabled characters into the genre. Who’s even more vulnerable than that iconic final girl in the slasher...

Synchronic: Orangutang Fucking Crazy

You may not know the names of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. I’ve been tracking this filmmaking team for a while now. I liked...

Film Shorts

OPENING   The Addams Family (PG) With the cartoon family created by Charles Addams returning to its roots, and with Oscar Isaac voicing Gomez and Charlize...

Chyna to Fort Worth

“When I was a little girl, I used to write scripts and either perform them with my dolls or with my sister and friends...

Kid Detective: The Hardy Man

The Kid Detective is set in a place that’s familiar from other children’s movies, one of those quaint, picturesque small towns where the streets...

Film Shorts

OPENING Alone (R) Bear with us here: This is not the horror movie by the same title that came out five weeks ago, but a...