Brian De Palma

The Penn is Mightier

Keith, Bill and Mr. Cuban

Redacted Redacted in Dallas

Bloodlust

Interview with the Vampire and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein try to invigorate the horror genre

Events for the week

Interview with the Vampire and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein try to invigorate the horror genre

Brute force

The greatest action movie of the sound era, The Train, turns 30

Love letters

Pauline Kael's For Keeps is a diary of a strange and passionate affair with movies

Dead bang

Sam Raimi's gonzo Western The Quick and the Dead is ludicrously entertaining

Events for the week

Sam Raimi's gonzo Western The Quick and the Dead is ludicrously entertaining

Half there

Circle Theatre's Better Half Dead fails to convince

Spies like us

Idiotic agents sabotage the flawed, energetic Mission: Impossible

'96 rewound

Good, but not that good

The odyssey

Everything old is New Wave again in Godard's Contempt

A knockout

De Palma gets down and dirty with the jagged, funky Snake Eyes

Screen tests

Usual suspects, small wonders, and the new Bertolucci at the Montreal and Toronto film fests

The Bomb Squad: Some Suggestions for Your AFI Dallas Film Fest Saturday Sked

Jeremy Renner will be in attendance at tonight's Dallas debut of The Hurt Locker, at the Magnolia at 7:30.Last night at the AMC NorthPark, where he accepted the AFI Dallas Star Award following a screening of Chinatown, the film's writer, Robert Towne, spoke of how films were once the place where aud ... More >>

Gomorrah

The average Giuseppes of organized crime

USA Film Fest Unspools New Titles, Rare Favorites, Worthy Tributes, Starck Club Doc

Good Lord, was Blood Simple really 25 years ago, USA Film Festival honoree M. Emmet Walsh?A little late in the day, but the USA Film Festival just sent out the schedule for this year's shindig, which runs April 29 through May 3 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. To save us all the t ... More >>

The Games People Play

Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you, again

Cloverfield is a Disaster

Cloverfield is a big, dumb monster movie about nothing

Mr. Schrader Goes to Washington

A gay escort finds himself at the center of a classic D.C. scandal in The Walker

Rendition is an Ordinary Terrorism Thriller

It's not torture, but this latest terrorism flick comes close

Shooting Blanks

Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy over there in The Kingdom

Videocam of the Dead

George Romero's latest takes on the YouTubers; zombies preparing vlog response.

Greetings from Toronto...

Where old masters, drunk teenagers and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

Artful Greetings

Where old masters, drunk teenagers and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

Good Clean Smut

Where old masters, drunk teenagers and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

Juices Flowing

Where old masters, drunk teenagers and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

Taking the Long View

Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot

Ghost World

True-crime noir goes searching for Hollywood's heart of darkness

Slithering Heights

The year's most shameless B-movie delivers exactly what it promises

Abort

Mission: Impossible III runs the franchise into the ground

Scared Stiff

Wayne Kramer's latest casts a Paul over the proceedings

Face to Face

Say 'ello to the Bad Guy

Raising the Bar

At last, the USA Film Festival is back under the influence

Lizzie Does Dallas

Plus: Oh, My Aikman Balls

Blood Brothers

Albert and Allen Hughes deliver a sensuous but grisly message From Hell

Pi in Your Face

Director Darren Aronofsky makes films that resemble himself: smart and abrasive

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Emotion in Motion

With Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee reinvents the martial arts movie for the art-house crowd

Wasted Space

Visit Red Planet, and you'll boldly go where everyone has gone before

Mission accomplished

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

The final cut

DVDs pull back the curtain on the movies, but do you really want to see the Wizard?

Critic's circle

WFAA movie reviewer Gary Cogill is guru and matchmaker for a caffeinated crowd of film buffs

Mission implausible

De Palma went to Mars, and all he brought us was this messy movie

The devil's playground

Roman Polanski can't understand why anyone would take his new movie seriously

Reel challenge

Twenty-eight years after its creation, the once-proud USA Film Festival has lost its focus. Can, and will, two new area film fests fill the void?

The smart, the fat, and the alienated

Hackers and Angus offer different movie visions of the high-school experience

Magnificent obsession

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Tom Cruise's mission: live another day as a bankable star.