Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 4)
Disaster struck at that early screening of Winter Sleep that I mentioned in my last post. The LSFF staff found corruption in the files...
Lone Star Film Festival Report (Day 3)
I shifted back to the Modern today after spending yesterday watching movies at AMC Palace. I’m sad to miss two blocks of short films,...
Cinematic Virtuosity
International piano competitions and glitzy film festivals make for interesting bedfellows. The mix seemed uneasy at first but slowly coalesced into a memorable evening...
Lone Star Film Festival Report (Days 1-2)
Hello, and welcome to my first dispatch from the 2014 Lone Star International Film Festival. I had to recuse myself from the opening film...
LSIFF Gets in Iranian Vampire Western
I will be covering the Lone Star International Film Festival on this blog all weekend, but I have an update to pass along to...
Halloween DVD Pick: The Innocents
I was lucky enough to see The Innocents when I was a teenager, and it turned me off horror flicks with faceless slashers running...
Fort Worth Film Festivals Join Forces
Somewhat buried in the Lone Star International Film Festival's recent announcement of its headlining films is the tidbit that this year, the LSIFF has...
Final Thoughts on Windsor, Barry Corbin, Joe Stevens & Co.
The ol’ notebook is about emptied out, the camera card is picked clean, and my buzz is finally subsiding after visiting the set of...
Sonny Carl Davis on Windsor, Alamo, Evil Bong, Willie Nelson
Sometime back in the early 1990s I stumbled across Last Night at the Alamo (1983), an obscure black-and-white film directed by the tortured Texas...
Quinn Shephard On Windsor, Texas, Twang, Jersey Shore
Texans don’t know what to think of New Yorkers half the time. That TV commercial wasn’t far off the mark, the one where a...
