It’s a wonderful experience when a film just gels with an audience and the laughter rolls across like a large wave, or its infectious energy seems to be reverberating through every seat in the house. That was the feeling I got … Continue reading North Texas Film Festival: ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ and ‘Clemency’
Kicking things off with a bit of star power, Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat injected the inaugural North Texas Film Festival’s Opening Night with a unique energy. As an entity largely sponsored by the financial institution Capital One, it seemed a bit … Continue reading North Texas Film Festival: ‘The Laundromat’ and ‘The Lodge’
One of the more memorable scenes in Justin Chon’s Ms. Purple sees a prodigal son return home to help take care of his bed-ridden father … then finds himself pushing said father around the bustling streets of Los Angeles, jangling … Continue reading Review: ‘Ms. Purple’
There exists a phenomenon here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area where people are reluctant to puncture their bubble and travel elsewhere. For Dallasites, it’s pretty much anything north of 635, which (apparently) is akin to traveling beyond the White Wall … Continue reading Announcement: The First Annual North Texas Film Festival
The telescopic lens of childhood is often more kaleidoscopic than illuminating. Our perception as a child is limited to our vague knowledge and inability to process heavy emotions or rationalize the horrors of the world around us. Instead, we slip … Continue reading Review: ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’
Fresh off its Grand Jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and already one of the favorites to be on the shortlist for an Academy Award early next year, Nanfu Wang’s One Child Nation is a charged vision smart … Continue reading Review: ‘One Child Nation’
