Oscar-Nominated Actress Candy Clark Revisits Trimble Tech
Fort Worth's Candy Clark couldn't wait to skip town when she was a teenager in 1965 and freshly graduated from Fort Worth Technical High...
Bonus Film Review: “Short Term 12”
Do not miss Short Term 12 when it plays at the Modern this weekend, for it has the best female lead performance I’ve seen...
Barry Corbin In Indie Flick That Premieres Friday In Southlake
Colorful actor and Handley resident Barry Corbin is among the many Texans featured in Beyond the Farthest Star, an independent film being released on Friday.
The...
R.I.P., Stanley Kauffmann
The news on Wednesday of Stanley Kauffmann’s death at age 97 sent me scurrying back to his film criticism. Having previously reviewed theater and...
Highlights from the Modern Cinema Festival
While you all were watching Gravity this past weekend, I was at Chris Kelly’s Modern Cinema festival. It’s good to have this annual event...
Help the Arts on North Texas Giving Day
September 19 is North Texas Giving Day, which means that if you contribute $25 or more to a Texas charity between 7am and midnight,...
Coyote Drive-In Screens the Original “Friday the 13th”
Here’s one of the great things about having a locally owned drive-in movie theater: They take requests. Customers of the Coyote Drive-In (223 NE...
The ‘Phibs and The Modern Present “The Audience”
If you want a lesson in how to grow older with grace and authority, look no further than the great British actress Dame Helen...
The Fort Worth Producer Behind “Jobs”
Jobs starts playing in a movie theater near you, and even though I didn't think much of the film, the sheer willpower of Fort...
Modern Cinema Festival Returns
I learned something interesting while attending last night's screening of Ain't Them Bodies Saints at the Modern. I already knew that Christopher Kelly's Modern...