Movie review: Skin
Sandra's parents are white, and she is black. It's apartheid-era South Africa. (Uh oh.)
Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
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Movie review: (Untitled)
(Untitled) relies on the same joke over and over again, all but eliminating the effect of its satire.
Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
Movie review: Crude
Ever heard of the "Amazon Chernobyl?" It's in Ecuador, and this film tells us all about it.
Friday, Nov. 6, 2009
Movie review: Earth Days
"There are limits to growth and we're bumping up against them right now."
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
Movie review: The Canyon
Seared skin on sandy soil.
This tale of mishap and survival set amongst the hoodoos and book cliffs of the desert southwest is as twisty as the canyon country in which it's set.
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
“Truckin’ For a Cure” tie-in with Trucker movie convoys to Carl’s Corner this Saturday
It's in support of the fight against breast cancer. Southbound and down, good buddy.
Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
Movie review: Trucker
Occasionally we're treated to a film that makes us gush like movie-watching virgins. This would be one of them.
Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
Video interview: Michael Stokes, writer/director of Dallas-made creepshow The Beacon
If you're going to make a movie about a haunting, you could do worse than to film it in a haunted Waxahachie hotel.
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
Sci-fi psycho thriller Minuteman to begin shooting in Dallas on Monday
From Dallas-based Dreamfly Productions.
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009
Video interview with director and actress from Gravestoned
Michael McWillie and Christina Campfield talk about making an indie horror film right here in North Texas.
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009
Movie review: The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)
It's simple, really.
Journalist loses objectivity, finds guns and bombs.
Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009
Movie review: Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
"She was the Oprah of her day."
Exhaustive documentary tells us everything we'd care to know about this multi-talented, pioneering sitcom visionary. (And then some.)
Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
Movie review and director interview: More Than a Game
Because of its focus on the team instead of its star, More Than a Game is a winner all the way.
Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
Movie review: Paranormal Activity
No sympathy for the day trader.
This refreshingly original no-budget creeper leverages its lack of resources into an asset.
Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
Movie review: A Serious Man
"I guess the honest answer is: I don't know," said the rabbi. (And neither does Larry, but he's trying to find out.)
Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
Art review: Performance/Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, in tribute to the opening of the arts district
Here's an exhibit where you turn into the artist.
Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
Details of 22nd Annual VideoFest: Nov. 5-8 at Dallas Angelika
With films on subjects ranging from a female orgasm pill to a history of Jews in Dallas, there ought to be something of interest for everyone.
Monday, Oct. 5, 2009
Sign up for Dallas Video Association’s Guts and Glory Film Race — if you dare!
The 24-hour shoot is set to begin Halloween night. (And that's not all about it that's scary.)
Monday, Oct. 5, 2009
Movie review: A Woman in Berlin
World War II-era Germans portrayed as victims? Now, there's a twist.
Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
Movie review: Capitalism: A Love Story
Not the greatest story ever told -- but includes footage from one of those other Jesus movies.
Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
Movie review: Lorna’s Silence
Much is unclear (and yet also mundane and predictable) in this Belgian film.
Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
Movie review and director interview: Amreeka
Joining popular films on the immigrant experience like My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Spanglish, Amreeka is a heart-warming, realistic story of a Palestinian family moving to Chicago amid post-9/11 anti-Arab hysteria.
Friday, Sept. 25, 2009
Movie review: Paris
Pierre's heart takes a lickin'. Will it keep on tickin'?
Lives, coming and going, in the City of Lights.
Friday, Sept. 25, 2009
Movie review and actor interview: Paul Schneider in Bright Star
Poets are so dang fragile, it's a miracle they ever reproduce.
Friday, Sept. 18, 2009
Movie review and filmmaker/actor interviews: The Burning Plain
We spoke with Guillermo Arriaga and Joaquim de Almeida during their appearance at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival this spring.
Friday, Sept. 18, 2009
Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam celebrates its Dallas premiere on Sept. 25
Local filmmaker Tammy Nguyen Lee will be on hand for a Q-and-A following the screening.
Monday, Sept. 14, 2009
Movie review: Big Fan
Big Fan shows writer/director Robert Siegel’s expanding vision, a new cinematic voice worth keeping an eye on.
Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
Movie review: The September Issue
Behind the scenes at the hugely influential Vogue magazine.
Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
Movie review and lead actor interview: Luke Arnold in Broken Hill
A good-hearted indie from Australia that will find particular favor among those with a creative bent.
Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
Movie review: The Horse Boy
Healing is healing, regardless of how it's achieved.
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009
State Fair documentary to play as part of DART Green Line grand opening celebration on Saturday Sept. 12
A Fair To Remember will screen hourly at the Music Hall in Fair Park.
Monday, Sept. 7, 2009
Movie review: Séraphine
Between the Great War and the Great Depression, life comes down hard on an artist with too much passion for her own good.
Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009
Movie review: My One and Only
My One and Only is a respectable return to form by Zellweger and a pleasant enough late summer movie diversion.
Friday, Sept. 4, 2009
Movie review: World’s Greatest Dad
It's a world in which we wouldn't care to live. Even in our imagination.
Friday, Sept. 4, 2009
Movie review: It Might Get Loud
A joyous celebration of the art and passion of making music. Electric guitar style.
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009
Movie review: Jerichow
This sexy, twisty thriller provides an entertaining look at the work of a talented German filmmaker.
Friday, Aug. 28, 2009
Video interview: North Texas filmmaker Frank Mosley
Mosley acts, directs, writes, and produces. In other words, he's an independent filmmaker. And with a film premiere coming up this Thursday, Frank is one busy guy.
Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009
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