Live by Night: Rum Reasons
Okay, now I'm worried about Ben Affleck, the director. You can understand why Warner Brothers might have been excited to put out his latest...
A Monster Calls: I’ll Call on Yew
Whenever I watch Juan Antonio Bayona's supernatural movies, I always get this sense of a lively guy who came late to the party. The...
Hidden Figures: Fuzzy Math
Mathematics seems to be one of the hardest subjects for filmmakers to tackle. It's relatively easy to show the audience that a character is...
The Top 10
As 2016 draws to a close, we must say farewell to the Fort Worth Weekly Film page. This article is its last official hurrah...
Jackie: Camelot’s End
As with any subject that has been plumbed endlessly by journalists and historians as well as artists, a movie about the Kennedys needs a...
Fences: American Family
While Denzel Washington has undoubtedly been one of the great actors of our time, his efforts as a director have been no more than...
Passengers: Wake-Up Call
Like La La Land, the deluxe yet minimalist space opera Passengers brings together a simple concept, an Oscar-nominated director, and two of American cinema’s...
Bonus Film Review: Sing
An animated musical for the holidays, Sing suffers from coming out the same weekend as a much better live-action musical. Even if we didn't...
Manchester by the Sea: Fire and Water
Kenneth Lonergan burst onto the scene 16 years ago with his debut film You Can Count on Me, a low-key, sharply observed dramedy that...
Rogue One: Suicide Squad
At the risk of boasting, back when Disney and Lucasfilm announced the plot of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I sniffed out how...
