Bonus Film Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road is enough to make Furious 7 look sedate by comparison. There, I wrote it. That lead sentence is probably somewhat...
Bonus Film Review: Pitch Perfect 2
It’s déjà vu all over again. Just like the Avengers sequel, the hotly anticipated Pitch Perfect 2 is the follow-up to an awesome 2012...
Voters Favor Incumbents Except For Danny Scarth
Incumbents ruled Fort Worth elections for the most part on Saturday. Still, voters sent longtime District 4 City Council member Danny Scarth packing. Challenger...
Fort Worth’s Candy Clark Returns For USA Film Fest Retrospective
Fort Worth native Candy Clark ("Graffiti Artist," July 3, 2013) became wistful after watching last Friday night's screening of The Man Who Fell To...
Considering Amanda Seyfried
Amanda Seyfried probably has the least flashy of the four major roles in While We’re Young, but she does well with it anyway as...
Considering Taraji P. Henson
Like many of you, I just got through the season finale of Empire after enough stuff happened in the first 12 episodes to make...
An Incomplete History of Cinderella at the Movies
I mentioned in my review of the new Cinderella that the story had been told many times before, modernized, tweaked, and otherwise adulterated in...
Mike Leigh and His Stars
Who is Mike Leigh? You might answer, “A British filmmaker who has been making films since the 1980s, a few of them period pieces,...
Considering Chuck Jones
I wore my Bugs Bunny tie to the press preview of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s Chuck Jones exhibit, and I...
Random Observations on Fifty Shades of Grey
So I finally saw Fifty Shades of Grey. It was less terrible than I feared, but still fell well short of being good. Let’s...
