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He Lives!
People who work day-to-day, blue-collar, service jobs intersect most of our lives all the time, but we don’t give many if any of them...
Ophelia: Too Much of Water
Remember Hamlet 2? In that flawed and awesome comedy, an Arizona drama teacher wants so badly for the characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to survive...
Film Shorts
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The Immigrant (R) Marion Cotillard stars in this drama by James Gray (Two Lovers, We Own the Night) as a Polish woman who is...
This My City
Satire has been an element of Spike Lee’s filmmaking since the beginning. Caricatures, heightened reality, and subversive jokes aimed at all manner of targets...
Celluloid Dreams
"I ask my students about their dreams," said Greg Mansur, who teaches filmmaking at Texas Christian University. "They think it's silly at first, but...
Radio Days
I have to admit, I have no idea whether the film version of A Prairie Home Companion is a good movie or not. I...
Free Fire: Oh, Shoot!
This week, you have a rare opportunity to sample one of the world’s most twisted filmmakers. I’m talking about Ben Wheatley, the crazy prolific...
Turn Out the Lights?
Are music corporations, with their emphasis on repetitive, easy-to-swallow sounds, quashing musical innovation? Are listeners demanding dumbed-down music? Is good music dead?
Several years ago,...
Twisters: It’s My Turn
Lee Isaac Chung’s last film was Minari, where the Korean-American family has to deal with the unfamiliar threat of tornadoes. That and the setting...
Flop Cards
I don't play poker. I missed out on the whole craze that ignited and then waned earlier in this decade.
I'm still not sure whether...
