Taking aim at the best and worst of movies and television.
Nov. 13, 2014 at 4:18pm | Permalink
Hopper Stone
Twenty years after they permanently lowered the bar on broad and dumb character comedies, Lloyd and Harry are back, “Dumb and Dumber” than ever in Dumb and Dumber To. Read more
Nov. 13, 2014 at 4:17pm | Permalink
Open Road Films
Rosewater is both a faithful and a forceful adaptation of Then They Came For Me, the 2011 memoir of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. Set during the run-up to Iran’s disputed 2009 presidential election and the chaotic stree... Read more
Nov. 13, 2014 at 4:20pm | Permalink
Focus Features
The origins of the universe prove as mysterious as the intimacy of a marriage in The Theory of Everything. Read more
Nov. 13, 2014 at 4:28pm | Permalink
Blackbird Productions
Beyond the Lights is another pain-behind-the-music romance. Read more
Nov. 13, 2014 at 12:00am | Permalink
Strand Releasing
It takes roughly five seconds to give in to the charms of The Way He Looks, a beautifully acted and written tale about a blind teenager who falls in love with a classmate. Read more
Nov. 13, 2014 at 12:00am | Permalink
Starz
At first, you logically assume the title of Starz’ new series The Missing refers to the child who disappears when his parents are stuck overnight in a small French town while their car is being repaired. Read more
Nov. 12, 2014 at 7:32am | Permalink
Barry Brecheisen Photography
Although Maziar Bahari has been doing interviews for Rosewater, Jon Stewart’s movie about the four months Bahari spent in an Iranian prison, the emphasis in promotion for the movie has been on Stewart. Read more
Nov. 11, 2014 at 12:00am | Permalink
AP
DVD How To Train Your Dragon 2: In a pivotal moment of How To Train Your Dragon 2, new character Valka — the guardian of all dragons — tells our hero Hiccup that... Read more
Nov. 10, 2014 at 11:12pm | Permalink
The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest and Homemakers took home the Best Documentary and Best Narrative Feature honors respectively at Fort Worth’s eighth annual Lone Star Film Festival, it was announced late Monday. Read more
Nov. 10, 2014 at 5:27pm | Permalink
Actress Marisa Tomei is replacing Toni Collette as the guest of honor at the Dallas Film Society’s Art of Film gala at the Perot Museum of Science and Nature on Nov. 21. Collette had to cancel due to changes in her overseas shooting schedule for an upcoming film. Read more