‘Suburbicon’ | There Goes the Neighborhood
Suburbicon opens nationwide October 27, 2017 • Dir. George Clooney • Matt Damon, Julianne Moore • TLM Rating 2/4 There's a deep-seated satisfaction from seeing something unravel, especially when it has made claims of perfection. In this spirit,...
Scares, Frights & Other Bewitching Happenings | Celebrating Halloween + Day of the Dead
It’s a boo-tiful time of year with Halloween and Day of the Dead making for what many in Texas regard as an unofficial two-or-more-day holiday. Spooky but true, we’ve rounded up a fang-tastic collection of...
And the Winner is … American Gateways! Nonprofit support group offers a night honoring the real stars.
It was the hug that came at the end of an award acceptance speech that may have said more about the event itself than any of the speeches combined. Juan Belman, a young man in...
It’s Not Enough to be “Lucky”
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston • TLM Rating 2/4 "Lucky" serves up a slice of life. It's the final slice with the fly on it that everyone tries to avoid but—in this metaphor, at least—cannot. The...
Blade Runner 2049 Gives New Life to Old Ideas
Blade Runner 2049 opens nationwide October 6, 2017 • Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas • TLM Rating 3.5/4 "Blade Runner 2049" doesn't try to up the original in any way; the words, "bigger" and "better," which are so...
‘mother!’ Knows Best
TLM Rating: 4/4 After a series of seemingly nonsensical images, "mother!" drops us into an empty cavity of a house, nonetheless inhabited by a married couple—though they behave more like married individuals. Of the two,...
‘Dunkirk’ is a War Film like No Other
As the story opens, we see a pack of fresh-faced soldiers walking carelessly through a quaint town paved with cobblestone. It looks more like a tourist trap than a war zone, but sure enough, fire rings out...
The Answer Isn’t Blowing in “Wind River”
"Wind River" is the directorial debut of Taylor Sheridan, the writer behind "Sicario" and "Hell or High Water," two films I find nearly perfect. For a first go in the captain's seat, perhaps it was wise...
The Makings of a “Lady Macbeth”
"Lady Macbeth" doesn't take place in Scotland, but an un-romanticized Victorian England, in which charming orphans and blushing debutantes are nowhere to be found. Nor does it star a ruthless, calculating Queen, but the young Katherine (Florence...
