Iran Arrests Filmmaker
Oh, this can't be good. The reports coming out of Iran say that movie director Jafar Panahi has been detained at an undisclosed location...
Winter Olympic Thoughts (the Games close)
In the last event of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Sidney Crosby scored an overtime goal for Team Canada to beat USA in the gold...
Arts Lovers
A major theme in Circle Theatre’s current production of Michael Hollinger’s “Opus” – to be reviewed next week – is how romance can fuel,...
“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...
