Helen Hunt

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

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

AFI Dallas: Fancy, But Not Too

Plastic explosives

Push the Tripping Daisy and make them come up

And your little dog, too

Putting the audience in harm's way gives Twister its punch

Events for the week

Putting the audience in harm's way gives Twister its punch

Events for the week

Putting the audience in harm's way gives Twister its punch

Rough trade

Life is messy, but As Good As It Gets is just a mess

This girl's life

Team Merchant Ivory's latest release reaches out and touches no one

Blair Bitch Project

Boys will be girls in The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode, a ribald triumph of low comedy and high production values

Entering Its Second Year, AFI Dallas Avoids the Sophomore Slump

Boys will be girls in The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode, a ribald triumph of low comedy and high production values

Fright Night

Boys will be girls in The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode, a ribald triumph of low comedy and high production values

Mild Wilde

A Good Woman would benefit from a good actor or two

Free at Last

Charges against infamous dildo saleswoman dropped in Johnson County

Ol' Dirty Bastard

Hollywood Ending shows Woody Allen in obvious decline--and delusion?

Allen Town

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

Bite It

Along Came a Spider bugs out

Tasty Trifle

The confusion in DTC's Twelfth Night is pleasant but familiar

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

Tom Terrific

Hanks finally grows up and delivers the adult romance of Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away

Mel Sells Out

What Women Want is a better movie than this two-hour Nike advertisement

Sweet and Lowdown

Pay It Forward's heavy-handed, saccharine message somehow goes down good

The Dr. Is In, Out, In, Out...

Robert Altman nails Dallas' shallow society to a T

Tear jerks

Here on Earth tromps -- charmlessly -- on Love Story turf

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

An F5 Destroys Dallas, One in a Series

Every now and then folks like to subject Dallas to an F5 tornado for the sake of a terrifying what-if short film. The first in line remains the best: the Discovery Channel's Perfect Disaster "Supertornado" episode, which is only missing Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton; if that's what'll happen to the Bal ... More >>

Pussing Out

Every now and then folks like to subject Dallas to an F5 tornado for the sake of a terrifying what-if short film. The first in line remains the best: the Discovery Channel's Perfect Disaster "Supertornado" episode, which is only missing Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton; if that's what'll happen to the Bal ... More >>

Phases and Stages, Circles And Cycles

Every now and then folks like to subject Dallas to an F5 tornado for the sake of a terrifying what-if short film. The first in line remains the best: the Discovery Channel's Perfect Disaster "Supertornado" episode, which is only missing Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton; if that's what'll happen to the Bal ... More >>

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 >>

Shelter for the Storms

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 >>