Category Archives: Previews

The Weekender: Less than ‘Perfect’

The 25th Dallas Video Fest kicked off Wednesday night with the full-scale experiment Expanded Cinema at the Omni Hotel. Thursday debuted the fest in earnest with the debut of the entertaining and enlightening documentary Ann Richards’ Texas. Learn more about … Continue reading

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Emmy Predictions 2012: Drama

Prepare yourself for a whole lot of Breaking Bad love. I don’t have much of anything to say in these categories, since I almost exclusively followed comedies last year. Basically, it’s time for Breaking Bad to sweep where Mad Men … Continue reading

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Emmy Predictions 2012: Comedy

COMEDY SERIES 30 Rock (NBC) The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) Girls (HBO) Modern Family (ABC) Veep (HBO) Are you excited for this slate at all? I’m certainly not. I can think of at least four series … Continue reading

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The Weekender: Watch ‘The Master’ work

IN THEATERS: Dredd (R) Starring Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey Screenplay by Alex Garland Directed by Pete Travis Sometimes a movie comes along and looks so mind-numbingly awful that you have to wonder who thought it was a good … Continue reading

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The Weekender: ‘Retribution’ for the worst weekend in years

IN THEATERS: Resident Evil: Retribution (R) Starring Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez Screenplay by Paul W.S. Anderson Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson After his disastrous steampunk version of The Three Musketeers flopped, the untalented Paul Anderson (as opposed to … Continue reading

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Fall Movie Preview 2012: So Much Manliness, You’ll Need a Dr Pepper Ten

Sept. 14 The Master (R) Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams Manliness: 6 Perhaps a little too highbrow for some dudes, but those are dudes I don’t want to hang out with. P.T. Anderson’s controversial return to film … Continue reading

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Fall Movie Preview 2012: The Tearjerkers

Sept. 14 Finding Nemo 3D (G) Starring the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe Potential for tears: Medium The undersea adventure returns nine years later in hopes you’ll shell out to see it again in post-conversion 3-D. While … Continue reading

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The Weekender: No more ‘Words’

IN THEATERS: The Words (PG-13) Starring Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid Written and directed by Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal Hard to believe a literary-minded thriller (I stretch the term) is getting such a major release. Cooper stars as … Continue reading

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Fall TV Preview 2012

This year’s fall TV preview keeps it simple: Only shows that I enjoyed last season and intriguing new shows are making the cut. There’s just too much else out there. It’s already a pretty long list, and with more channels … Continue reading

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The Weekender: Let’s be ‘Frank’

IN THEATERS: Lawless* (R) Starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce Written for the screen by Nick Cave Directed by John Hillcoat An entertaining and violent history lesson about Virginia bootleggers. Hardy and Pearce are particularly outstanding, but the movie … Continue reading

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