Anthony Hopkins

The Trouble With Hitchcock

Shouldn't the making of Psycho be more interesting?

Silence is Golden (Then, Not)

Top 5 Man vs. Nature Survival Films, in Honor of The Grey

Liam Neeson has become quite the badass as of late (IMO he's always been a badass...Darkman!), with machismo roles in Batman Begins, The A-Team, and of course Taken, in which he kills, like, more than 50 dudes with his bare hands in a manner that would make even Jack Bauer think twice about crossing ... More >>

The Rite: Exorcising Demons No Scarier Than Nasty Older Sisters.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. He will Attempt to Entertain. He Will Fail

Today In Music News: The Beach Boys Get A Movie, Eminem Set To Star In A New Movie And Bruno Mars Gets Busted

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, October 4, 2010...A new movie about The Beach Boys is in the works that's not a biopic.  I'm not exactly sure how that works, but, I'm sure it will be better than the VH1 movie about the band.Eminem is reportedly set to act in the movie 360 w ... More >>

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Listomania: 10 Bands That Suck Outdoors

​Let's start this off right: We're absolutely not saying these bands suck. We're saying they suck in the heat and humidity of an overpacked, porta-potty using festival. And, with ACL approaching fast and other festivals that people like coming up real soon, there's a lot of choices in that butt-sw ... More >>

Idol Rich: Blue-Eyed Prime Time with Sinatra and Harry Connick, Jr.

​The Idol competitors were challenged this week with the task of reinterpreting the classics of Frank Sinatra. Ol' Blue Eyes' daughters were even in the audience (no pressure, singers) and presented Sinatra fan Simon Cowell with a monogrammed FAS hankie. Awesomely cool. Made me really wish his shi ... More >>

Yes, Another Film Festival: The USA Film Festival Releases Line-Up and Schedule

Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda in Neil Jordan's Ondine, which is playing the USA Film Festival April 30​The Dallas International Film Festival wraps up Sunday. But tomorrow morning, tickets for the USA Film Festival will go on sale via Ticketmaster, according to the fest's publicist in the rele ... More >>

Uptown Players' Revival of Equus a Rough Ride: Circle Theatre's Opus Goes Full Gallop

Nixon, the Composer

Hopkins shows off his musical side

Move Along, Kids

Weed Killer

The Terrorist's Mind

Populist Mechanics

Faithful King's adaptation drowns in ponderous metaphors

Bring in the Trash

Lucky X III

The third X-Men is a charm for comic fans

Ride the Legend

The World's Fastest Indian is powered by Anthony Hopkins

Reel Killer

The Deep Ellum Film Festival offers cinematic pleasures...just not in Deep Ellum.

Duchamping at the Bit

Two shows say Dada and take wobbly baby steps into absurdist comedy

Call Him Al

An epic story turns human--and fallible-- in Oliver Stone's Alexander

Black Like Me?

One man's deceptions help highlight our own flaws in The Human Stain

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Like Bill

Ex-prime minister's trip to Dallas prompts a British invasion

Bloody Well Right

You better, you Bettany as a harrowing, mod Gangster

Fight Club

When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

Miscue 9/11

Hollywood drops another nuke in New York, and it's just a dud

The Prince

At long last, the Godfather's son makes his first film, and it was not easy

Stand By Them

Mystery and memory shine upon those with their Hearts in the right places

Fava Beans and Ham

Hannibal proves that Hopkins without Foster just doesn't equate

Green Dregs and Ham

The new Dr. Seuss adaptation is far more cynical than the Grinch ever was

Floats, not like a Butterfly ...

Stinks like bad TV

Mission accomplished

Sequel-itis infects Cruise's M:I-2, but not fatally

The redemption of Bret Easton Ellis

A decade ago, the American Psycho author was vilified. Now, he could launch a franchise.

Mary, quite contrary

Race, class, and an unhinged maid pick apart a family in Cotton

Bard on

Titus gets a splatter-film makeover in this stylish, garish adaptation

Monkey don't

Instinct offers gorillas in the midst of one mediocre movie

Eight is enough

Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

Death rattle

The filmmakers take a long, long holiday in this insipid remake

No cojones

Hopkins and Banderas don't bring much to this lame Zorro retread

Comfortably numb

The best films of '97 either provoked or entertained

Out of Africa

Spielberg delivers a wildly erratic--and tumultuously moving--historical epic with the overreaching passion of a man possessed

Driven to abstraction

Lack of tension and purpose kills Surviving Picasso

A tale of two Tricky Dicks

Two Richards--Nixon and Lancaster--plus one Oliver--prove that power corrupts absolutely

Second-hand thrills

Two great actresses get stuck holding the Xerox in Copycat

Events for the week

Phallus idols

Nobody's Fool and Legends of the Fall peddle icons of masculinity

Enema mine

The Road To Wellville, Alan Parker's hymn to greed, lust, and body fluids doesn't quite work