Kristian Lin
Death of a Unicorn: Poke My Heart
Last summer’s Cuckoo was the only horror movie that had scientists breeding human-cuckoo hybrids to enact large-scale mind-control, and Death of a Unicorn also...
Film Shorts // March 26 – April 1, 2025
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Audrey’s Children (PG) This biographical drama stars Natalie Dormer as Dr. Audrey Evans, the founder of Ronald McDonald House. Also with Jimmi Simpson, Brandon...
Odds and Ends
Once again, this past year yielded some movies of interest that I didn’t get to write about, mostly because they didn’t play in Tarrant...
Snow White: First Light I See Tonight
Let’s get my least favorite part of this review out of the way and run down all the controversies that have dogged the live-action...
Film Shorts // March 19-25, 2025
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The Alto Knights (R) Barry Levinson’s gangster film stars Robert De Niro as both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello as the two mobsters vie...
Black Bag: Spies in the House of Love
Steven Soderbergh came up as a young Turk in the late 1980s, exploding Hollywood narrative conventions and exploring new layers of metafiction in sex,...
Novocaine: Comfortably Numb
Jack Quaid is having himself a season. The son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan made his film debut back in 2012, being shot...
Film Shorts // March 12-18, 2025
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Court - State vs. a Nobody (NR) Priyadarshi Pulikonda stars in this Indian legal thriller as a defense attorney fighting on behalf of a...
Mickey 17: I Think We’re a Clone Now
Read the fine print. That seems to be the message of this season’s movies. The villain of Companion trips himself up because he fails...
Film Shorts // March 5-11, 2025
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Anora (R) This wild sex comedy won the Best Picture Oscar, and is it ever a blast. Mikey Madison plays a Russian-speaking stripper in...
