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New ‘Superman’ flies low under a long shadow

After 12 excruciating years, Warner Bros. has given up the ghost and paved over the muddy, miserable Man of Steel with a sunny, cheerful new Superman movie, with James Gunn as writer, director and producer and affixed as the chief … Continue reading

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OCFF 2025- 12 solid hours in the main theater

I wouldn’t get up early yesterday for morning yoga – the correct choice, I only got halfway through the session I attended – but I delayed publishing, which is dangerous, so I could make the 11:45 curtain of Videoheaven. This … Continue reading

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OCFF ’25 Saturday: six solid hours in the upstairs theater

Saturday, the one day that’s always clear and always has the main highlights. This fest it’s Fucktoys, a 16mm pre-millennium fantasy of a prostitute, played by writer/director/executive producer Annapurna Sriram, trying to work her way into enough cash that she … Continue reading

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OCFF 2025 day two: the real festival is the friends you make along the way

I won’t log any time at the Texas Theatre today. Over time, as the festival gets more jam-packed, they’ve had to expand venues and put up temporary screens at other venues around Oak Cliff. Tonight’s features are at the Bishop … Continue reading

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Drifting through opening night of OCFF 2025

The 2024 Oak Cliff Film Festival was one of my favorite weeks to be a film writer. It was a reason to be strung out all weekend in my favorite place and proof that I could put out content to … Continue reading

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