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Dallas Morning News

"It's time to start warming up for this year's USA Film Festival"

by Tom Maurstad

It's time to start warming up for this year's USA Film Festival, scheduled April 29-May 3. There are some definite bright spots in the interesting schedule, which was released on Wednesday. This year's big-ticket appearance, depending on your perspective, is either stare-down star Ray Liotta (Goodfellas), Oscar-nominated and barrier-breaking actress Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life), actor Brian Cox (who seems to be in everything these days) or the great character actor, M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple). If that's not enough, there are also plenty of films. Among the highlights is the new film from Irish director John Crowley, Is Anybody There? starring Michael Caine as an elderly magician entering a retirement home. There's also Baghdad Texas, the quirky comedy from David Hickey about a Middle Eastern dictator (hmm, wonder who that's based on?) who finds himself stranded on a South Texas exotic game ranch. - Tom Maurstad/April 19, 2009



Other Press Reviews
  • Slackerwood (on 10/28/09)
    "Arguably the best film in this category in 2009 is Baghdad Texas."
    by Jenn Brown
  • The Austin Chronicle (on 09/10/10)
    "Don't be surprised when the soundtrack to Austin-bred low-budget comedy Baghdad Texas starts to garner Grammy buzz"
    by Austin Powell
  • Sonic Scoop (on 00/00/00)
    "set in 2003 when the search was on for a deposed Saddam Hussein, and asks the question, “What might happen if a ‘Mid-east Dictator’ flees his defeated country on a private jet, is downed in a violent storm on his flight to Cuba, and crash lands in Mexico "
    by David Weiss
  • Variety Magazine (on 00/00/00)
    ""Baghdad, Texas".. Plot imagines a plane carrying a fleeing Saddam Hussein crashing in Mexico in December 2003; its wounded, high-ranking passenger makes it across the Texas border, only to be broadsided by a trio of drunken cowboys."
    by Ronnie Scheib
  • Slant Magazine (on 00/00/00)
    "Baghdad Texas begins as a congenial xeno-fantasy by director David H. Hickey: a Middle Eastern dictator lands at the U.S.-Mexico border inadvertently after a plane crash and is eventually led to the American side by a group of well-meaning Mexicans en rou"
    by Diego Costa