Benito Mussolini

Tax Breaks for AAC Worked So Well the First Time, Let's Do More!

The Double Hour Plays it Safe

Low-energy Italian mystery doesn't thrill.

Nothing Rapid About DART in Ice and Snow

​Check me on this. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the outfit that runs the trains, didn't know how to keep their trains running in an ice storm. The same kind of trains operate in winter weather cities all over the world. There's a way to keep them running in an ice storm. But DART didn't know how. L ... More >>

Vincere

​Check me on this. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the outfit that runs the trains, didn't know how to keep their trains running in an ice storm. The same kind of trains operate in winter weather cities all over the world. There's a way to keep them running in an ice storm. But DART didn't know how. L ... More >>

Short Cuts on Before the Rains and My Brother Is an Only Child

​Check me on this. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the outfit that runs the trains, didn't know how to keep their trains running in an ice storm. The same kind of trains operate in winter weather cities all over the world. There's a way to keep them running in an ice storm. But DART didn't know how. L ... More >>

Coppola returns with Youth Without Youth

Coppola romanticizes his source material

No Strings Attached

Wooden acting all around--and not just in Stage West's brittle Puppet Boy

Shoe One

...was the FBI. Watch out, City Hall. Shoe Two's comin'.

Fortunate Son

Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

Please, Not a Nut

Oh, it's so scary when they name a new chief

Sins of the Father

Classical Acting Company digs deep with All My Sons; at KDT, a muddled Much Ado

No Cash, No Peace

Bolton wants a hearing? Nah. He wants money.

Ho Ho Hunh?

Once more, Tim Allen drops a lump of coal down the chimney

Good for Nothings

From the SMU vaults, a collection of bad movies with, ahem, good intentions

Some Like It Not

Tony Curtis commits felonious acting at DSM; Plano Rep rips into an old play about jail

Ship of Fools

Color-blind casting is one thing, but Captain Corelli's Mandolin goes absurdly overboard

Jerry rigged

Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly pours a lethal cocktail

Buzz

They the people; Free stuff

Dead, man

Sean Penn fails to bring life to the Villa

Cradle and all

Tim Robbins' Orson Welles project bites off more than it can chew

Buzz

Untitled; Those who can't, teach; You say it's your birthday

No need for sympathy

In Tea, Zeffirelli paints an annoyingly whimsical version of WWII

Short circuit

In Tea, Zeffirelli paints an annoyingly whimsical version of WWII

Damned Rangers

The Texas Rangers better win the pennant this year, if only to atone for subjecting fans to two decades of baseball hell. Mike Shropshire chronicles the team's cursed early years in an exclusive Observer excerpt.

Welcome overstayed

A Month By the Lake feels like years