Melissa Leo

Buyers Beware, Or: Will Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures at Sundance Film Festival?

At Sundance, Some Films Are Wanted, While Others Are Desired

Leo's Land

The Modern smuggles Frozen River onto the screen

Hard-Knock Life

Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom

Heavy, Man

The heart wants what the brain has to fight for in 21 Grams

Wired into New Orleans

David Simon’s new HBO series uses fiction to honor The Crescent City’s surreal, heart-breaking reality

Kung Fu Slam Dunk: On Friday, Two Film Fests to Light Up Screens at Angelika, Magnolia

What you see above is the just-posted trailer for the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off Friday at the Magnolia beginning with a 2 p.m. screening of Johnnie To's dramedy Sparrow. As evidenced by the sneak peek, and what I've managed to see so far, it's yet another bang-up year for the fe ... More >>

Conviction: Guilty of Hokiness.

What you see above is the just-posted trailer for the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off Friday at the Magnolia beginning with a 2 p.m. screening of Johnnie To's dramedy Sparrow. As evidenced by the sneak peek, and what I've managed to see so far, it's yet another bang-up year for the fe ... More >>

Welcome to the Rileys: Kristen Stewart and the Birth of an Anti-Star.

What you see above is the just-posted trailer for the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off Friday at the Magnolia beginning with a 2 p.m. screening of Johnnie To's dramedy Sparrow. As evidenced by the sneak peek, and what I've managed to see so far, it's yet another bang-up year for the fe ... More >>

The Fighter Falls Through the Ropes.

What you see above is the just-posted trailer for the Asian Film Festival of Dallas, which kicks off Friday at the Magnolia beginning with a 2 p.m. screening of Johnnie To's dramedy Sparrow. As evidenced by the sneak peek, and what I've managed to see so far, it's yet another bang-up year for the fe ... More >>

DFW Film Crix, Very Social at Year's End

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its year-end best-of list, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film The Social Network coming out on top -- just as it had in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review ... More >>

The Oscars: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Funny, but I don't think Justin Timberlake is Banksy. Is he? 9. As far as early-year Super Bowls of industries go, give me football (Super Bowl), followed by music (Grammys), auto racing (Daytona 500) and movies (Oscars). 8. Original score? Original song? Sound mixing? Sound editing? En ... More >>