Toni Erdmann: The Greatest Love
I notice that only one week after Toni Erdmann opened in Dallas theaters, it's already closing down there this weekend. This is despite the...
The Lego Batman Movie: Everything Is Batman
A lot of things have made the recent DC Comics movies look bad, but nothing has made them look worse than The Lego Batman...
The Comedian: Laugh Lines
Funny people are delightful to be around, but professionally funny people can be exhausting. They turn every conversation into a wisecrack, a pun, an...
Odds and Ends
One of my favorite regular features is this one that I do around this time every year. It’s my way of writing about a...
Silence: Word of God
My other duties at the Weekly kept me from seeing Martin Scorsese's Silence before I made out my list of the year's best films....
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...
