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‘Godless’ and the Art of Storytelling
It's my/our/their story. Not yours. Your job is to be entertained. If you were engaged from beginning to end, then we did our job and we did it proper.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Hickok’
“You know the myth…now meet the legend.”
Read More »Interview: Director Timothy Woodward Jr. Discusses His New Film ‘Hickok’
Blogcritics talks to Director Timothy Woodward Jr. about his new movie 'Hickok'
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): Sam Shepard’s ‘Fool for Love’ at the Playhouse San Antonio
The Playhouse production of Sam Shepard's 1983 work is well-staged, but the piece itself has lost much of its original ability to shock.
Read More »IFFF Movie Review: ‘Hot Bath, Stiff Drink, and a Close Shave’
'Hot Bath, Stiff Drink an’ a Close Shave' won the Finalist Award for drama at the International Family Film Festival (IFFF).
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Hell on Wheels – Season 5, Volume 2’
Hell on Wheels comes to a satisfying conclusion.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Hell or High Water’ starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster
A late-summer surprise with a great cast, Hell or High Water is an exciting, character-driven antidote to the season's typical sequels and would-be blockbusters.
Read More »Interview with Thomas Rottinghaus, Author of ‘Graywullf: Book One of the Dragonspawn Trilogy’
Never give up on your writing, but keep your day job.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Forsaken’ – Kiefer and Donald Sutherland Co-star in Weighty Western
Forsaken stars Kiefer and Donald Sutherland as father and son in a new Western drama. That’s the hook, but there is way more to this western than anyone would expect, although the director, writer and impressive supporting cast should give you a hint that this is an exceptional film. The story, on the surface, seems deceptively simple and one any fan of westerns has seen a dozen times. The railroad is coming and a corrupt business man is using a bunch of thugs to force farmers to sell their land to him. But to leave the description there would be like saying High Noon was about a town’s law enforcement human resources problems.
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