Film Review
If you weren’t able to make every film at this year’s Asian Film Festival of Dallas, Michael O’Brien offers his film picks worth finding on DVD.

Film Review
Bad luck is an unexpected catalyst for repentance in the Austrian psychological thriller Revanche

Film Review
The Transformers sequel is long and boring, and the extended action sequences were so over-stylized, the computer-generated special effects so intricate, reflective and bombarding, I really couldn’t make out what was going on.

Thursday Film
The remake of the subway thriller The Taking of Pehlam 1 2 3 fails to excite, while Kate Churchill’s documentary about a yoga guinea pig, Enlighten Up!, amounts to spiritual failure.

Thursday Film
In advance of Father’s Day, two new films reveal a contemporary unease with fatherhood. But it’s Eddie Murphy’s giggle-filled kids’ film Imagine That that gets to the heart of parenting, not Sam Mendes’ depressing comedy Away We Go, about two wide-eyed expecting parents searching for ideals.

Thursday Film
The Brothers Bloom and Anvil: The Story of Anvil

Thursday Film
Lemon Tree and Treeless Mountain

The documentary Every Little Step is a film about an audition for a play about an audition. But while the set-up seems ripe for delving into the relationship between actors and their craft, this film barely gets under the mask.

THURSDAY FILM
Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours is a meditation on the way precious objects connect us to our origins and what we lose when those things pass away.

INTERVIEW: Matt Tyrnauer
For forty-five years, Italian designer Valentino created clothes that spoke to a world larger than the every-day – a world of celebrity, glitz, and glamour. In the documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor, filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer enters the fashion designer’s own glamorous world and finds the man behind the myth.