Dallas International Film Festival 2016 Greetings again from the darkness. The story of how art was treated during WWII is fascinating: Himmler devised the plan to hide/store the

Greetings again from the darkness. From rags to riches … a common expression that often leads to a paint-by-numbers movie. Co-directors Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist are fortunate

Dallas International Film Festival (2016) Greetings again from the darkness. It’s usually easy to bash the movies that go heavy on sentimentality. It’s possible that even Steve Goodman

The genetic winds of change have swept through Tinsel Town’s DNA, and Hollywood is mutating into a two headed monster.  One head, an artist driven, organic being that lives

DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Greetings again from the darkness. As a UT alumnus, the numbers are etched in memory. August 1, 1966. The 27th floor. 16 dead.

DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Greetings again from the darkness. Very few people have achieved the level of career success of Norman Lear. Very few people have had

DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Greetings again from the darkness. It’s difficult to believe now, but Austin City Limits was once “the little engine that could” … and

DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Greetings again from the darkness. Every young filmmaker should be so fortunate to have Dianne Wiest and David Oyelowo accept roles in their

DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Greetings again from the darkness. One of the things that watching so many movies has taught me is to respect the filmmaker’s vision.

Hank, a hopeless man stranded in the wild, discovers a mysterious dead body. Together the two embark on an epic journey to get home. As Hank realizes the

Academy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest bestseller in Dan Brown’s (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds the famous symbologist (again

Scrat’s epic pursuit of the elusive acorn catapults him into the universe where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the Ice

Academy Award®-winning actress and producer Penélope Cruz delivers an extraordinarily emotional performance in ma ma, the newest film from acclaimed director Julio Medem (SEX AND LUCÍA). Honoring the

Nutshell: strong start, strong finish, but a wobbly middle shored up by character shout outs for longtime fans, and a few fun surprises. Casual viewers may enjoy the

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