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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Paradise to Hold

Film Shorts

The late Eiko Ishioka is nominated for an Oscar for Lily Collins’ outfits in Mirror Mirror.

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

Unknown Artist

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Frank Mosley’s I Could Live in Hope Opening

Arlington filmmaker Frank Mosley is a favorite of ours (“The Wizard of Odd”) who’s celebrating the opening of I Could Live in Hope, a...

Film Shorts // June 5-11, 2024

OPENING   Bad Boys: Ride or Die (R) Will Smith and Martin Lawrence re-team for this fourth installment of the series as the Miami cops who...

French Exit: Frances in France

You see what Michelle Pfeiffer can do when she’s focused. This actress lit up Hollywood in the late ’80s and all through the ’90s...

The Greatest Movies of All Time*

*as decided by me and 64 other film critics Three months ago, British film blogger Iain Stott asked me and other movie critics from around...

Filming Mystics with Mark Hanshaw

Mark Hanshaw doesn’t sound like a filmmaker. Instead of talking in sales pitches, this professor of religion at Texas Wesleyan University is happy to...

More Thoughts on “The Hunger Games”

I read all three of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games novels in the space of a week last year, so you won’t be surprised to...

Of an Age: Riding in Cars With Boys

Not a great deal happens in Of an Age. I’ve decided I’m okay with that. These days, all the coming-of-age movies are relegated to...

Arrietty: Borrowed Time

So what’s it gonna take for Hayao Miyazaki to get his due in America? The co-founder of Studio Ghibli has built his legacy on...

Film Shorts

OPENING  The Forgiven (R) Forest Whitaker stars in this historical drama as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, meeting a white South African killer (Eric Bana) in prison...

Beale Street: Dusky Dream Harlem

The movies have mostly neglected James Baldwin, but the 20th-century novelist and essayist foresaw everything that’s happening in Trump’s America, so it’s good that...