Even cast as an aging Elvis, Bruce Campbell must do battle with the evil, undead
By Luke Y. Thompson,
October 30, 2003
In the beginning, there was The Evil Dead, and Stephen King looked down upon it and saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let there be Evil Dead... More>>
Brutality and romance make odd bedfellows in Beyond Borders
By Luke Y. Thompson,
October 23, 2003
Given the way the United Nations has been taking a beating in the American media over the past year or so, it may not be a bad thing that the new... More>>
Christine Jeffs and Gwyneth Paltrow imbue Sylvia Plath with new life...uh, and death
By Gregory Weinkauf,
October 23, 2003
Sometimes something so wonderful appears on the big screen that I want to leap up like a shameless non-professional and hug it. Such is the case... More>>
That a new feel-good sports movie called Radio contrives to move us is just fine--that's what feel-good sports movies are supposed to do. That... More>>
Despite many strong stars, this Grisham adaptation amounts to squat
By Luke Y. Thompson,
October 16, 2003
Watching Hollywood's endless stream of John Grisham adaptations--The Firm, The Chamber, A Time to Kill, etc. --it would be easy to assume that... More>>
A slick remake of a barely fictionalized biopic renders Irish reporter Guerin's story as Hollywood truth
By Gregory Weinkauf,
October 16, 2003
Veronica Guerin isn't at all a bad movie, and some kind things will be said about it here. But cynical appraisal also has its place, so we'll... More>>
Eastwood takes a guilt trip down the mighty Mystic River
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 16, 2003
Dave, a man who's barely there, lulls his son to sleep with stories of a boy lost in the woods who escapes from wolves; it's a thrilling bedtime... More>>
The Coens make a '40s comedy with a Cary named Clooney
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 09, 2003
It's beginning to look as though the films of George Clooney are less works of fiction than products of documentary crews following around the... More>>
The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 02, 2003
Director Richard Linklater's The School of Rock imagines, sort of, what might have become of voluble rock snob Barry the morning after his grand... More>>
John Sayles drags six would-be mothers down to la Casa de los Babys
By Gregory Weinkauf,
October 02, 2003
You gotta love John Sayles. No, really--you gotta, or else a mob of indie-minded cineastes will club you into submission. Sometimes it's easy to... More>>
Between The Rock and a hard place, The Rundown isn't so bad
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 25, 2003
The script for The Rundown has lingered for more than a decade and was originally a Patrick Swayze vehicle, well before those wheels fell off.... More>>
Lázaro Ramos kicks literal and figurative booty as a legendary Brazilian drag queen
By Luke Y. Thompson,
September 25, 2003
It's no given that audiences will embrace a passionately homosexual, drug-abusing male prostitute-cum-drag-queen, especially if he happens not to... More>>
Lions tames Duvall and Caine with feel-good cornpone
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 18, 2003
Secondhand Lions is cornier than the cornfields spread out in front of the dilapidated rural Texas manse inhabited by Robert Duvall and Michael... More>>
There's something funny, not scary, about Cold Creek Manor
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 18, 2003
Never mind the trailers, which advertise Cold Creek Manor as some kind of horror-thriller, complete with the image of a hand emerging from the... More>>
Deep Ellum Film Festival 
Beyond Borders 
Sylvia 
Radio 
Runaway Jury 
Km. 0 (Kilometer Zero) 
Veronica Guerin 
The Station Agent 
Mystic River 
Kill Bill: Volume 1 
Intolerable Cruelty 
Demonlover 
Dopamine 
School of Rock 
Out of Time 
Casa de los Babys 
Under the Tuscan Sun 
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands 
The Rundown 
Lost in Translation 
Secondhand Lions 
Cold Creek Manor 
Anything Else