Posts Tagged ‘films’
![Rosewater opens Friday.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ROSE-300x170.jpg)
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Rosewater (R) Jon Stewart makes his directing debut with this drama about real-life journalist Maziar Bahari (Gael García Bernal) and his ordeal in an Iranian prison while covering the pro-democracy uprising. Also wit...
![Kevin Kratzke plays Buddy Holly in Texas Family Musicals’ farewell show, Fri.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ND-300x170.jpg)
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 12 Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan have earned rave reviews in the U.K. for their performances in Skylight, a David Hare play about a wealthy restaurateur who drops in on his much-younger ex-girlfriend and finds her teach...
![Gugu Mbatha-Raw (in white) rocks out in Beyond the Lights.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/film1-300x170.jpg)
Lights On
Stellar performances and a solid script make this potential melodrama serious entertainment.COLE WILLIAMS
When Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) first sings, she’s a little girl in a talent competition performing Nina Simone’s “Blackbird.” She comes in second place, and her passionate stage mom Macy Jean (Minnie Driver) tells her to t...
![Fredrick Alonzo comes to AMC Parks to screen "Signed, Sealed & Delivered," Fri.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Film-2-300x170.jpg)
Fredrick Alanzo Keeps the Faith
A Fort Worth native brings his first film back to North Texas.KRISTIAN LIN
After a long and circuitous route, Fredrick Alanzo is returning to North Texas this Friday for a local premiere of his film Signed, Sealed & Delivered. Currently living in Houston, the Fort Worth native conceived the work a...
![The Great Invisible opens Friday in Dallas.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/RTR2Z6YY-300x170.jpg)
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Great Invisible (PG-13) Margaret Brown’s documentary interviews survivors of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Opens Friday in Dallas) Big Hero 6 (PG) Disney’s latest animated film is about a young invento...
![Matthew McConaughey explores a whole new world in Interstellar.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/film-300x170.jpg)
Wild Black Yonder
Christopher Nolan reaches for the stars in Interstellar.KRISTIAN LIN
I know this much about Interstellar: Christopher Nolan wants to make a big, ambitious fantasy thriller for the popcorn crowd like he usually does but one that vibrates with love, hope, and optimism the same way that his Batman ...
![Keira Knightley works a street corner (no, not like that) in "Laggies."](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/laggies-20130626_laggies_0256_rgb-300x170.jpg)
Gone Girl
Laggies shows you Keira Knightley like you haven’t seen her before.KRISTIAN LIN
I like the new Keira Knightley. She’s so much more fun than the old one. The old one never would have played the sort of person who sees a giant Buddha statue in an Asian restaurant and twists the statue’s nipples while mak...
![Cover-11.5.14](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cover-11.5.14-300x170.jpg)
Grappling with the Glitz Machine
North Texas film veterans spend their lives looking for the key to turn art into commerce.story and photos BY JEFF PRINCE
Q: What do you get when you put three North Texas film veterans in a home office in Cleburne? A: Lots of talent, great ideas, excellent films and TV shows to their credit — and almost no money. Also, possibly, a grasp of what...
![Nightcrawler opens Friday.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/nightcrawler-jake-gyllenhaal-2-300x170.jpg)
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Nightcrawler (R) Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this thriller as a creepy loner who becomes a freelance crime journalist taking videos of accidents, police chases, and crimes in progress. Also with Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Ann...
![Come make an ofrenda for Día de los Muertos at Arts Fifth Avenue, Sat.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141114121330im_/http://www.fwweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/nD-300x170.jpg)
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 29 There will be a Spanish flavor when UNT Concert Orchestra gathers for its performance this evening. Clay Couturiaux will conduct Manuel de Falla’s Suite No. 2 from his ballet The Three-Cornered Hat and Chabrier’s...