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Being Spike Jonze

The acclaimed rock-video director has made one of the year's oddest, funniest films. So why is he scared of his own shadow?

Happy Ending

Soderbergh shoots in digital and hits the target: Hollywood

Sins of the director

A fine cast overcomes the visual gluttony of Seven

Losing it

All work and no play makes this a gloomy Game

Send in the clones

Art director brings flair to the franchise

Sinner's Choice

The Inwood features Fincher's Seven

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Wallowing in a Pitt of Hokum

The Inwood features Fincher's Seven

Violence Is Golden

With its secret boys' club and bloody good fun, Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt

Nine Inch Nails

The Slip (Self-released)

Boy Trouble

The Slip (Self-released)

Film 2007: Hit List

The top movies of 2007

Chow Time Again

The top movies of 2007

Palm d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

America Cannes

Art imitates life as U.S. directors command this year's fest, with only China rivaling for celluloid domination.

Oh, the Humanity of a Heist

Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in this character-driven theft thriller

Killer Instinct

David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off in Zodiac

Hand It to Him

David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off in Zodiac

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Abort

Mission: Impossible III runs the franchise into the ground

Boy Oh Boy

Revenge is a dish best served cold, like live octopus

Shock Treatment

An experimental director and a harrowing tale fit The Jacket perfectly

Screenplay Zero

Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley struggle through floundering frights

Lather Up

Put your dukes up for Fight Club

Breast in Show

Angelina Jolie stars in Taking Lives, but the filmmakers are the real boobs

Sidestep of the Machines

The Terminator's back. Again.

A Toothy Grin

Horror fans have good reason to smile at Darkness Falls

Tapeheads

Gore Verbinski and Naomi Watts throw their hats into The Ring

Fight Club

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

Fear Factor

In the woods of New York lives a creepy (or is it?) Wendigo

Slight Club

Stuck in the Panic Room, Fincher takes us to a most familiar place

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

Semi Recall

The lean, mean Memento makes the most of its simple but shallow gimmicks

Still Fab

A spiffed up Hard Day's Night continues to dazzle, with its jump cuts, slow motion, and sped-up Beatles antics

View to a Killer

Keanu Reeves is mundane but mildly entertaining in The Watcher

Fight Club lite

Shadow Hours isn't quite Fincher, but it's a good try

The eyes have it

Veteran cinematographer Conrad Hall will choose 'right' over 'special' any day

Pull the strings

The power of puppetry propels the brilliant Being John Malkovich

Revenge of the nerds

David Fincher's Fight Club will make you cry uncle

Lord, almighty

Stigmata can make you miss the split-pea soup

X-Men's New Banshee, Caleb Landry Jones, Also Happens to Be a Very Good Local Musician

DC9 in SPACE: Robert Jones from Dallas Observer on Vimeo.So much to get to before closing out this wet work week, including Elliot's recap of his day with the Westboro Baptist Church-folk and some legal matters concerning the wet-dry election. But first ...Only a few folks have been cast in X-Men: F ... More >>

The Symbolyc One Powers The New The Social Network Spot--But He's Not The Only Area Musician Involved in the Facebook Film.

If you've been paying attention, then you've long known that Dallas' own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West's inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling "Power." And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track--it's currently being used in the as-seen-above-and ... More >>

The Social Network: With Friends Like These...

If you've been paying attention, then you've long known that Dallas' own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West's inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling "Power." And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track--it's currently being used in the as-seen-above-and ... More >>

Stone: Ed Norton, Master of the Dual Role, Dances with Himself.

If you've been paying attention, then you've long known that Dallas' own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West's inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling "Power." And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track--it's currently being used in the as-seen-above-and ... More >>

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Back for One Final, Convoluted Installment.

If you've been paying attention, then you've long known that Dallas' own Symbolyc One is the man behind the beat of Kanye West's inescapable hit of the moment, the King Crimson-sampling "Power." And, sure enough, the hits keep coming for that track--it's currently being used in the as-seen-above-and ... More >>

DFW Film Crix, Very Social at Year's End

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its year-end best-of list, with David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's Facebook film The Social Network coming out on top -- just as it had in the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review ... More >>

Best Films of 2011: People of the Year

Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Meet the New Girl in Town

Rooney Mara takes control of the Stieg Larsson juggernaut