Christopher Kelly

Director, News Innovation, Topics and Features, NJ.com. Writer-at-large, Texas Monthly. Author, husband, dad, inveterate fresh pasta maker.
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NJ.com • 28th September 2019

Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ starring De Niro and Pacino is a stunner at New York Film Festival

We’re so accustomed to the biggest-hyped movies failing to live up to expectations that it’s almost disorienting when one delivers.
D Magazine • 1st May 2018

Julia Heaberlin Is a Writer Hiding in Plain Sight

Texas has yet again bred a major American noir writer, but unless you’re a cultist, you’d likely have no idea.
NJ.com • 25th March 2018

'Angels in America' on Broadway review: A masterpiece soars again

One of the countless wonders of this instant-classic production is the way it energizes, instead of enervates, as it goes along, expanding in scale and scope, spinning out one surprise after another.
Texas Monthly • 13th November 2017

Remembering Magnum P.I.’s John Hillerman, the World’s Best Phony Englishman

How did the North Texas native convince a generation of TV fans that he was a dyed-in-the-wool Brit?
Texas Monthly • 9th January 2014

The Accidental Activists

As of October, Plano attorney Mark Phariss wasn’t entirely out of the closet. Now, he and his partner, Vic Holmes, could make legal history.
D Magazine • 1st August 2013

How David Lowery Became Dallas' Most Important Filmmaker

His breakout film hits screens this month. He wants to continue to make movies in Dallas. But Robert Redford has other ideas.
Texas Monthly • 12th February 2013

Dazed and Amazed

“Before Midnight” makes clear that Richard Linklater’s romantic trilogy is his masterpiece.
Salon • 3rd October 2012

"Will & Grace" changed nothing

The strange thing about all the “progress” we’re always hearing about when it comes to gay and lesbian characters on TV? Nothing ever seems to change.
Texas Monthly • 1st January 2010

Revenge of the Nerds

How a small group of fanboys and one supremely geeky Austin film festival determine what America sees at the multiplex.
Slate • 30th June 2006

Larry Clark, the MySpace Director

Learning to love—or at least tolerate—the movies of Larry Clark.
Salon • 30th June 1999

Cruising Cruise

One of the earliest and most trenchant intimations I had of my own homosexuality came while watching Tom Cruise in the 1983 comedy "Risky Business."
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