Academy Awards

It's an Honor Just to Be Nominated...

It Takes Forever to Deface a Dumpster

Like a Bat Out of Hell, the USA Film Festival Schedule is Released

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Robert Towne's Coming to Town to Get AFI Dallas Award. Also, More Films Added.

AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year's AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits in ... More >>

The Hunt For Red Tearjerker

See Russia's 12 at the Modern

Roll Call

The Modern calls The Class to order

Flick Bits

The shorts are long on talent

Dark Times

Ride a bleak Taxi to the Modern

Strings of Red

Ride a bleak Taxi to the Modern

A Catty Eve-ning

See Bette Davis on the big screen

Boo! It's 1962.

Catch a classic at the central branch

Hear Ye, Hear Ye

The Modern shows you what to watch

Classic Casey

Matthau stars at the Modern

Frisky Flapper

Millie Charlestons into Richardson

Officially Oscar

Who will win the man of gold?

Oscar Trivia

San Fran got the shaft

Pixel Party

San Fran got the shaft

Leader of the Pack

Cycling hits the big screen at the Modern

Take It All Off

Theatre Three drops its drawers

In Small Doses

The Modern hosts some splendid shorts

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

Safari to nowhere

A wobbly Basinger and a feeble screenplay doom I Dreamed of Africa

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Va Va Vroom

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Crime Screen

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Aerosmith, ZZ Top

Sunday, July 19,at superpages.com Center

Cuckoo For Cogill

Sunday, July 19,at superpages.com Center

Badges?

Sunday, July 19,at superpages.com Center

What Do Michael Douglas and Jack Abramoff Have in Common? They're Both in This Year's Dallas International Film Festival.

Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg in Solitary Man, one of the first titles announced for the Dallas International Film Festival​After the jump you'll find a list of the first 10 titles announced for this year's Dallas International Film Festival -- you know, The Film Fest Formerly Known as AFI D ... More >>

Last Stop, Tolstoy

Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg in Solitary Man, one of the first titles announced for the Dallas International Film Festival​After the jump you'll find a list of the first 10 titles announced for this year's Dallas International Film Festival -- you know, The Film Fest Formerly Known as AFI D ... More >>

Get Shorty

Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg in Solitary Man, one of the first titles announced for the Dallas International Film Festival​After the jump you'll find a list of the first 10 titles announced for this year's Dallas International Film Festival -- you know, The Film Fest Formerly Known as AFI D ... More >>

A Golden Night

Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg in Solitary Man, one of the first titles announced for the Dallas International Film Festival​After the jump you'll find a list of the first 10 titles announced for this year's Dallas International Film Festival -- you know, The Film Fest Formerly Known as AFI D ... More >>

Going for the Gold

Michael Douglas and Jesse Eisenberg in Solitary Man, one of the first titles announced for the Dallas International Film Festival​After the jump you'll find a list of the first 10 titles announced for this year's Dallas International Film Festival -- you know, The Film Fest Formerly Known as AFI D ... More >>

From the Curriculum: Some Higher-Ed News and Notes from SMU and UT-Dallas

SMU will host a conversation with the director of the Academy Award-winning doc The Times of Harvey Milk next week at the Angelika​SMU sends words of a media and human rights symposium set for next week -- which includes a tribute to director Rob Epstein, two-time Oscar winner for co-directing the ... More >>

Who Is He And Why?

SMU will host a conversation with the director of the Academy Award-winning doc The Times of Harvey Milk next week at the Angelika​SMU sends words of a media and human rights symposium set for next week -- which includes a tribute to director Rob Epstein, two-time Oscar winner for co-directing the ... More >>

Good Godfather! Al Pacino's Bringing a Greatest-Hits One-Man Show to AT&TPAC in November.

​Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-'11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS -- quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the atten ... More >>

Q&A: Ryan Bingham Talks Growing Up in Texas, Sharing His Name with George Clooney and Coming to Grips With Winning an Oscar

Ryan Bingham​Alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham has always received positive reviews, sold moderately well and attracted good-sized crowds to his shows. But, lately, he's riding an even bigger a wave of good fortune.When Bingham was asked to contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack t ... More >>

Brief Encounters: A Showcase for Academy-Anointed Shorts.

Ryan Bingham​Alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham has always received positive reviews, sold moderately well and attracted good-sized crowds to his shows. But, lately, he's riding an even bigger a wave of good fortune.When Bingham was asked to contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack t ... More >>

The Eagle: A Neophyte Roman General Takes Flight.

Ryan Bingham​Alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham has always received positive reviews, sold moderately well and attracted good-sized crowds to his shows. But, lately, he's riding an even bigger a wave of good fortune.When Bingham was asked to contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack t ... More >>

And The Winner is...Eaters at This Oscar-Themed Feast

Bone Marrow might be an intense choice for 127 Hours. Another idea, after the jump.​As the Academy has expanded its list of Oscar nominees to a whopping 10 films, it's become harder for even interested movie fans to see every movie on the Best Picture roster. So City of Ate today presents an edibl ... More >>

Salute Your Shorts

Bone Marrow might be an intense choice for 127 Hours. Another idea, after the jump.​As the Academy has expanded its list of Oscar nominees to a whopping 10 films, it's become harder for even interested movie fans to see every movie on the Best Picture roster. So City of Ate today presents an edibl ... More >>

The Oscars: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Funny, but I don't think Justin Timberlake is Banksy. Is he? 9. As far as early-year Super Bowls of industries go, give me football (Super Bowl), followed by music (Grammys), auto racing (Daytona 500) and movies (Oscars). 8. Original score? Original song? Sound mixing? Sound editing? En ... More >>

Robert Wuhl Assumes the Position at WaterTower's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival

Robert Wuhl​Robert Wuhl is bringing his solo show Assume the Position to the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at WaterTower Theatre in Addison next week. The two-week festival opens tomorrow with a lineup of more than 20 different performances of drama, dance, music and comedy. It's an enjoyably fr ... More >>

Ryan Bingham

Friday, November 25, at Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma