Texas film medianewspaper film section
Fort Worth Weekly (film coverage)
Kristian Lin has reviewed films for the paper since about 1998, through three owners.
Fort Worth · 1996– · active
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The story
Robert Camuto, a Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter whose father owned the Nine West shoe chain, launched FW Weekly from a bungalow on West Seventh Street. The first issue came out on April 11, 1996, edited by John Forsyth. Camuto first pitched the idea as an arts and entertainment supplement for the Star-Telegram, and the Weekly set out to compete with the daily on arts coverage as well as news.
Kristian Lin joined after the paper moved in 1998 and became its movie critic. The New Times chain bought the paper in 2000 and renamed it Fort Worth Weekly. The paper's tenth-anniversary history says New Times took Lin's critic duties away for several months before he got them back. In 2001 Lee Newquist, a New Times executive and former publisher of the Dallas Observer, bought the paper from the chain and named Gayle Reaves editor.
Lin has stayed on through all three owners. In 2026 he was still writing the Weekly's Film Shorts listings and reviews.
Sources
- Ten Years and Going Strong Fort Worth Weekly 2006-04-12
- Gayle Reaves Named Editor at FW Weekly Association of Alternative Newsweeklies 2001
- Kristian Lin (author page) Fort Worth Weekly 2026