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2004 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Graham Coxon

  published July 15, 2004

  Five records into a solo career, and at last Graham Coxon's willing to admit, or remember, he used to be in Blur--y'know, a pop band. Up till now... More >>

• Hey, Wilma

  published July 8, 2004

  You can't, and mustn't, deny that the allure of the sci-fi convention is the novelty of meeting and greeting the faded crushes and fallen icons of... More >>

• Good News

  published July 8, 2004

  Anchorman, co-written by its star Will Ferrell, plays like a series of outtakes strung together more or less in random sequence.... More >>

• The Real World

  published July 8, 2004

  Not one of this city's countless film festivals is as much an extension of its founder, and programmer, as the Dallas Video Festival. To see but a... More >>

• Van Halen

  published July 8, 2004

  Ain't talkin' 'bout good: "Eruption" opens disc one of this alleged best-of two-fer, then slides into three new songs from the reunited Van Hagar,... More >>

• Run, Do Not Crawl

  published July 1, 2004

  All you need to know about Spider-Man 2 is revealed in the opening credits, in which comic-book artist Alex Ross recaps the 2002... More >>

• Wrong Wayans

  published June 24, 2004

  Perhaps some day in the distant future, film scholars and academics concerned with race relations will devote papers and lectures and even entire... More >>

• Anatomy of a Buzz

  published June 24, 2004

  "You let me know when we've made it," says drummer Josh Garza, a passenger in a van headed for Cleveland, where his band Secret Machines will... More >>

• Sure Feels Like 80 Days

  published June 17, 2004

  You might think that with the technological advances in moviemaking since 1956 that this new version of Around the World in 80 Days... More >>

• Brian Wilson

  published June 17, 2004

  The best you can say of the third solo record from Brian Wilson--third, that is, after one bootlegged fiasco and one ditched "comeback"--is that... More >>

• Meltzer's Super Identity

  published June 10, 2004

  Brad Meltzer, former attorney and now writer of best sellers set in and around the courtroom, makes no apologies for his love of comic books. By... More >>

• The Whole Truth?

  published June 10, 2004

  Jehane Noujaim co-directed 2001's remarkable Startup.com, about two Internet whiz kids who brokered just... More >>

• Pokes in the Eye

  published June 10, 2004

  Well, so much for that new Dallas Cowboys stadium at Fair Park. Might as well get used to the sound of it: the Arlington Cowboys. Or maybe... More >>

• The Geek

  published June 3, 2004

  Anthony Michael Hall talks of The Struggle, the decade-long odyssey during which he auditioned for everything and got only the occasional... More >>

• Gomez

  published June 3, 2004

  Truth in advertising and then some: Gomez manages to, yeah, split the difference between Blur and Oasis. And, oh, Travis, which isn't a complaint... More >>

• A Good Buzz

  published May 27, 2004

  The first time through, you might dismiss Coffee and Cigarettes as a filmmaker's recess, playtime before the serious business... More >>

• Going Deep

  published May 27, 2004

  Leo Hicks stands at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X boulevards, which lies in the shadow of Fair Park. It's the only... More >>

• Nice Pussy

  published May 20, 2004

  The first few minutes of Shrek 2 are cluttered with more references to the movies than David Thomson's thick, rich history text... More >>

• McRibbing

  published May 13, 2004

  What becomes of Morgan Spurlock's body after a month of eating and drinking nothing but McDonald's assembly-line foodstuffs is not surprising. He... More >>

• Loretta Lynn

  published May 6, 2004

  White out Jack White's name as producer and collaborator, and Loretta Lynn's latest probably flies under the radar and into the discount bins... More >>

• Paved Over

  published May 6, 2004

  Among the miles of sentences The Dallas Morning News has constructed about the proposed Dallas Cowboys stadium at Fair Park, here's one... More >>

• Bar Code

  published April 29, 2004

  Laws of Attraction is the kind of film you might mistake for "cute" or "charming" at first glance. Maybe you will open the paper and... More >>

• Block Voting

  published April 29, 2004

  Don't rush to the polls to vote on that new stadium for the Dallas Cowboys, unless you like waiting in line for 10 months. No matter how... More >>

• Truth Be Told

  published April 22, 2004

  Among the so-called highlights of this year's USA Film Festival, which opens Thursday and runs through April 29, is Napoleon... More >>

• Big Deal

  published April 22, 2004

  I am going to give 13 Going on 30 too much credit, though it's hardly worth the effort; Lord knows the filmmakers didn't put much... More >>