Charlize Theron

Tina Fey's Great, but Admission Doesn't Have the Marks

Boxing Cotillard

Rust and Bone dismembers cinema's beauty of the moment.

Prometheus: Ridley Scott's Final, Fickle Frontier

Prometheus boasts impressive horror, but its ideas? Not so much.

The Latest Snow White is a Tale Overtold

Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

John McCauley of Deer Tick: "I Heard That Charlize Theron Is A Fan"

Providence, Rhode Island's Deer Tick is all about John J. McCauley III. The singer/guitarist formed the band in 2004 and his warped wit and croaking vocal style define Deer Tick's sound. Speaking from a Pittsburgh restaurant and in anticipation of Saturday's show at The Loft, McCauley spoke about De ... More >>

Last Night's Top Chef: Texas Included the Best Elimination Challenge Ever

via BravoThe clawed black chicken, a horrific murder scene on a plate.​Crispy skinned black chicken, perfectly moist, claw still attached, over fois gras and tiny cubes of beet, their blood-like juices splattered on the plate as though the unusual dark poultry underwent a brutal execution -- a ... More >>

Descendants Ascends to Top of DFW Crix List

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just dispatched its year-end best-of, the whole list of which follows. Given my retreat from film crit in recent months -- though I did review We Bought a Zoo, opening Christmas week, and ... not bad -- I can't argue with this year's list as I've don ... More >>

Young Adult: The Bitch is Back

Charlize Theron's former prom queen tries to go home again.

Dallas Film Society's Art of Film Event Returns to Hall of State, This Time WIth John Lithgow

Might we see Buckaroo Bonzai on the big screen when John Lithgow comes to town next month? Maybe so, maybe so.​Last year's inaugural Art of Film event at the Hall of State was quite the wingding as the great Elvis Mitchell and Robert Duvall informally, thoughtfully and quite giddily chatted about ... More >>

Top Chef: Texas Starts November 2 With Two Austin Chefs, None From Dallas and ... Pee-Wee!

"Mecca lecca high mecca tiny bit more salt, please."​Finally time to see how your tax dollars were put to work by Bravo and its Magical Elves. As you'll recall, we reported back in July that Governor Rick Perry's office, that bastion of small government, spent $400,000 to promote the state's ... More >>

The Tourist Gawks at its Stars, Visits Venice, Has Twist.

The Dallas Film Society Combines Two of My Favorites: Robert Duvall and the Hall of State

​Technically, it's three of my favorite things, since Robert Duvall's November 19 appearance at the Hall of State in Fair Park will be a chitchat moderated by one of my dearest friends, Elvis Mitchell, former Star-Telegram and New York Times film critic-turned-At the Movies co-critic. That's neith ... More >>

There's No AFI Anymore, But Film Fest Has New Honorary Chairs: Tom and Laura Leppert

Danny HurleyMayor Tom, with Peter Bogdanovich and other film and local luminaries (and Rick Perry) at an AFI Dallas closing event last April​A few weeks ago we mentioned some fairly significant changes at The Film Festival Formerly Known as AFI Dallas International Film Festival. Today comes word ... More >>

The Road: Neither Horrific Nor Disasterrrific, Cormac Mccarthy Adap Takes The Path Of Least Resistance

AFI Dallas Announces Its First 15 Films

Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in Gigantic, which premiered in Toronto last year and screens this year at AFI DallasThe AFI Dallas International Film Festival just released its first list of films selected for this year's shindig, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as noted last month, most ... More >>

Hard-Knock Life

Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom

Superzero

Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero

Entering Its Second Year, AFI Dallas Avoids the Sophomore Slump

You'd Best Hustle If You Want to Get Your Seats for AFI Dallas

Getting on Target

AFI Dallas Fest Sneaks a Peek with Hunter S. Thompson, Ellen Page and Helen Hunt

Walk Through the Valley

Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

The Short Goodbye

To Each Theron

Gooooo, Nellie!

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie

Mine Kampf

A female ironworker fights back against abuse in the riveting North Country

Gag Order

A woman chugs drugs to save her family in Maria Full of Grace

American Girl

Patty Jenkins and Charlize Theron give birth to a Monster

Third Eye Blind

June 15

Safe, Cracked

This new Italian Job, a remake better than the original, is a steal

What Makes Him Tick

Plus: No Look

Damaged Goods

Waking Up in Reno is not that bad, but it's not that good, either

'N Space

Lance Bass attempts to boldly go where no man has gone before. Well, no pop star, anyway.

Allen Town

Scorpion is fun if familiar, one of Woody's typical Manhattan riffs

Blood Simple

The gory 15 Minutes is like TV news: flashy, fun, forgettable

Dying of Laughter

Sweet November is bad all year long

Sneakin' a Peek

Jason Alexander shows us a winning coming-of-age tale through a keyhole

Sea Worthy

Men of Honor is full of holes but somehow manages to stay afloat

A Snooze Runs Through It

If you love the excitement of watching golf, this Damon-Smith bore is right up your fairway

A Couple Yards Short

The gang's all here in this familiar-but-fresh tale of a bad guy scared straight

Against the wall

John Frankenheimer could have disappeared, but he refused to go away

Playing Games

Nothing is as it seems beneath the fabulous frozen tundra

Gregory wise-ass

Little orphan Tobey

Cider House recounts Homer's odyssey to find his very own life

Meet Joe Young (again)

The never-ending story of Hollywood going ape for a really big gorilla

Glamour shot

Woody Allen dissects fame, art, and sex in Celebrity

Valley of indecision

A cynical comic edge can't justify spending 2 Days in the Valley