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New Web-Based Project And a Day in Dallas Will Prove That Even Now, Terry Southern Lives!

Photograph by Pud Gadiot, ViaTerry Southern​At this late date, tell me there's no need to remind you who Terry Southern is. No? We're good? Fantastic.Well, OK, in case you're still not clear: He's Alvarado-born, Oak Cliff-raised, SMU-educated writer who bridged the gap between the Beat 1950s and t ... More >>

A Lotta Cox! When You Need to Get Out of the House, Go Straight to Hell at Texas Theatre.

​I hadn't seen Alex Cox's Straight to Hell since forever, but Barak Epstein at the Texas Theatre was kind enough to provide a copy yesterday in advance of its re-appearance at the Oak Cliff movie house tomorrow night -- the first of four nights paying homage to the filmmaker. Well, technically, it ... More >>

Yvonne Craig on Long, Strange Journey From Oak Cliff to the Ballet Russe to the Batcave

​Should you need me 'round 3 today I'll be moderating a Q&A at the Plano Centre with Nichelle Nichols, former singer with the Duke Ellington Band, star of the James Baldwin play Blues for Mister Charlie and -- oh, right -- Star Trek's original Lt. Uhura. Nichols is here for that Sci-Fi Expo ce ... More >>

Hopper on Over to the Inwood

​Should you need me 'round 3 today I'll be moderating a Q&A at the Plano Centre with Nichelle Nichols, former singer with the Duke Ellington Band, star of the James Baldwin play Blues for Mister Charlie and -- oh, right -- Star Trek's original Lt. Uhura. Nichols is here for that Sci-Fi Expo ce ... More >>

Q&A: Wreckless Eric Talks Texas, The Death of Dennis Hopper and Whether He Was A Punk.

Wreckless Eric (aka Eric Golden) is best known as one of the initial new wave acts that came out of England back in 1977. Along with Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, Eric helped expose the world to the greatness that was Stiff Records. Eric's first single, "Whole Wide World," was an instant classic, a ... More >>

Dennis Hopper Always Did Love Dallas, Even If He Did Try To Piss On It a Time or Two

​Upon hearing the news of Dennis Hopper's death from prostate cancer at the age of 74 this afternoon, I dug up a 1990 Daily Texan interview I did with the writer-director-actor upon his return to the USA Film Festival, where he was being feted as its Master Screen Artist. He spoke fondly of Texas ... More >>

Get lost with Jim Schutze while canoeing the Neches River and find the wildlife refuge Dallas wants to dam to secure its water supply

​Upon hearing the news of Dennis Hopper's death from prostate cancer at the age of 74 this afternoon, I dug up a 1990 Daily Texan interview I did with the writer-director-actor upon his return to the USA Film Festival, where he was being feted as its Master Screen Artist. He spoke fondly of Texas ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: You Shoot, We Score

Texas music looks great. It provokes the imagination and illustrates the intangible. For years, we've been providing the necessary flavor to help filmmakers tell their stories. It's what we do; we're obviously good at this kind of thing. And it goes both ways: Movie soundtracks are the kind of thin ... More >>

Echoes And Reverberations: Hitchhiking Along Post-Industrial Boulevard

Noise is not for everybody. Some people hear a jackhammer on the street corner and promptly cover their ears; others hear a subsonic melody and random harmonic movement in the staccato repetition of mechanized machinery. “Industrial music” is the umbrella term used to describe artists who e ... More >>

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The Modern hosts an Elegy

Small Change

Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote

Reel Blood

The DMA screens oil tale Giant

Born to Be Wild

The AllGood hosts a road trip classic

When Stars Don't Align

The AllGood hosts a road trip classic

Strange World

Get in touch with Blue Velvet

For the Kids

Films that are kid-tested, 'rents-approved

Mold School

It's Hutch ado about nothing in this so-so remake

Coming Home

Terry Allen's lost Amerasia re-emerges decades later

Raising the Bar

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

A Grand Guy

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

Horton Hears a "Wha?"

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

Bloody Well Right

You better, you Bettany as a harrowing, mod Gangster

All Grown Up

At 32, the USA Film Festival proves it can still play ball

Steel Cage Match

TNT pays tribute to Nicolas Cage

Road to Ruin

A CB radio opens a channel for evil in John Dahl's Joy Ride

Playing God

Francis Ford Coppola re-creates his Vietnam phantasmagoria

Giant Among Myths

Maybe the best thing to have ever happened to James Dean was his death

God Only Knows Why

There's much to learn -- and forget -- about TNT's All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson

Off Camera

For Califone's Tim Rutili, there's no difference between a picture and a thousand words

Forgive its trespasses

Intermittently entertaining, Denis Johnson's junkies drift along in Jesus' Son

Enter the drag

Shanghai Noon goes way out West, but not far enough

Naked eye

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Letters

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Screen dreams

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Letters

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Odd Man Out

Dallas-raised Terry Southern wrote Easy Rider, hung with the Beatles, and influenced a generation. But he died penniless, and now his son must pay off Terry's debts--and restore his father's legacy.

Your fiends and neighbors

Clay Pigeons pokes and pries at country discomforts

Gray days

A Brazilian political potboiler paints an ambiguous portrait

Time to kill

McConaughey and Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers

That sinking feeling

Speed 2 runs aground before the lousy ship even starts its engine

No Great Snakes

Anaconda gives new meaning to the phrase disaster movie

The singer, not the song

Basquiat paints a stark portrait of the artist as a young misfit

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Basquiat paints a stark portrait of the artist as a young misfit

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Test Pattern

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

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Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX