“Fearless” in 2010
North Texas filmmakers have a little less than a month to submit their short flicks (20 minutes or less, please) for the fourth annual...
FW Director Wins Top Prize
Congrats to Fort Worth writer-director Tom Huckabee for winning ”Best Narrative Feature” at this weekend’s seventh annual Oxford Film Festival in Mississippi for his dark...
The Best Actors of 2009 (Non-Oscar edition)
I’m doing something different this year for my list of the best acting performances. I figured that you don’t need me to tell you...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2009
This post is for anyone who sat through the Transformers sequel and concluded that film writing is dead. I was privileged enough to see...
“Whip It” Good
Just finished watching the new-on-DVD-and-download flick ”Whip It” – Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut – and I loved it. This one has loads of hip-checking...
“A Dirty Shame” Redux
The Sundance Channel has screened John Waters’ underappreciated 2004 comedy “A Dirty Shame” several times over the past month. (Another showing is scheduled January...
Is the Right Wing Right About ‘Avatar’?
The latest dispatch from the culture wars is the right wing’s attack column forming against Avatar. The Weekly Standard's John Podhoretz and John Nolte...
The Talented Miss Highsmith
Joan Schenkar’s “The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highmith,” reviewed on this week’s ”Books” page, could’ve been a...
The Best Filmmaking Debuts of 2009
Part of the fun of this job is scoping out new talent, so here’s my favorite films of 2009 directed by first-time feature filmmakers....
Bruce Wood Film in Fest
Longtime readers probably remember Weekly dance critic Leonard Eureka’s raves about Bruce Wood Dance Company, a Fort Worth-based Modern troupe founded in 1995 by...
