Jeff Bridges

Ryan Bingham: "I Could Sing Death Metal and I'll Still Be A Country Singer To Certain People"

Ryan Bingham isn't a country singer. While he's dabbled in the tones of roots and country, he's a rock star at this point in his career. Sure, many people know the Los Angeles-based former rodeo cowboy from his celebrity-making, Oscar-winning tune "The Weary Kind" from the movie Crazy Heart, in whic ... More >>

Dispatches From Buckslandia: Bucks Burnett Threatens To Open Another Eight Track Museum

"Let me be honest, no one comes to see this place. I designed it that way. I knew there'd be attention on the front end, but this is over. And I'm fine with that." Bucks Burnett is being honest with me, as he most likely has the length of our three-hour conversation (more in next week's issue) in h ... More >>

This Asteroid Is The Size of 10,394.8 Texases, or the Best Texas-Based Video of the Day

The Size of Texas with Clint Howard from Clint Howard Here's a new brilliant one from Funny or Die, where writer / Director Scott Gairdner parodies Michael Bay's Armaggedon (or any ridiculous asteroid movie)--specifically the scene where Billy Bob Thorton exclaims the asteroid about to pulveri ... More >>

Own the Duke's Duds

Defending DART? We Think Schutze Might Have Scored Some X at Electric Daisy.

​I did a thing for DC9 at Night yesterday about how the city didn't do anything wrong at that rave at Fair Park over the weekend, and I got a lot of very positive response in the comments, most of it probably from the people who put on the rave, but it was really nice to hear some flattering t ... More >>

Techno-Tron-ic

From Bobbie Wygant's Archives, a Chat With the Late, Great Sidney Lumet (Bill Murray Too!)

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Sidney Lumet for "The Morning After" from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Shortly after news broke of director Sidney Lumet's death at the age of 86 on Saturday morning, our pal Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth-based keeper of The Bobbie Wygant Archive, sent word: He had in his possession an ... More >>

Can Dallas Cowboys fans forgive new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan for the sins of his father?

True Grit: Coen Brothers Take Their Tongues Out of Their Cheeks.

Tron: Legacy: Bliss Out On a 3-D, CGI'd, Incomprehensible Head Trip.

The Striking Similarities Between James McMurtry and Bad Blake.

Today In Music News: William Shatner Covers Cee-Lo, Britney Gets To Work And Jeff Bridges Records An Album

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, November 5, 2010...Well, today is the day some of you have been waiting for... it's the last Today In Music News posts. I know, I know... it's been a long and winding road of the best news stories the interweb has to offer. But don't worry your p ... More >>

Do It Uruguay: South American Wines Ready
To Make Splash in the States

​Argentinian wines make good sense in Texas. Like Texas, Argentina is big and dry and hot. Most important, it's a beef-eating country -- the average Argentinian annually eats more than 150 pounds of beef -- and the wines are made to pair with steak. But the leaders of a session on South Amer ... More >>

Rollin' Them Sevens

Crazy Heart

Jeff Bridges, The Master Of Dudes, Shines As A Country Music Has-been In Crazy Heart. Will The Elusive Oscar Finally Be His?

DFW Crix Up in the Air With Year-End Tally

​The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its tops-o'-2009 list; it follows in full after the jump. But, first, this teaser: Dodging critical conventional wisdom that has put Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker at the top of most critics' polls, the DFWCA instead opted to follow ... More >>

The Men Who Stare at Goats: Did Aliens Abduct George Clooney's Sense of Humor?

Kevin Smith Blows his Wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno

To Kill a Sunrise

Who would win in a fight: The Eagles or The Eagles of Death Metal? Let's go to the tape!

End Of Line

The Inwood brings in the logic probe

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a Thing to Marvel

Dude. No, Man, The Dude.

Garbled

Hear the song (but not the lyrics) of Michael McDonald

Flick It

Your guide to summer's hottest films

Let's Go Bowling

Monkey Business

Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long

New releases available this week

Blue Shoes Special

Method Rocking

Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Porn to Be Mild

No sex, please, they're skittish at The MAC; comedy galore, mystery a bore in Addison

A Gift to Grief

Jeff Bridges is at his swaggering best in a film about a couple wrecked by loss

Truth Be Told

It's the docs that rock this year's USAFF schedule

Funny Boy

Life is coming up cow patties for kid comedian Corbin Corona

Nobody's Fool

He has three Oscars, co-wrote Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Newman digs him. So why don't you know Dallas-born filmmaker Robert Benton?

Short Cuts

Bucking the Odds

Seabiscuit is a different breed of summer "ride" movie

Impossible Dreamer

Terry Gilliam sets out to make Don Quixote, but becomes him instead

Natural Disaster

Was Terry Gilliam the man who killed Don Quixote?

Lazarus, Reborn

Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.

The Offender

The Contender is a candidate for the year's most high-minded trash

By a nose

The tense but plodding Simpatico is no day at the races

God help him

Albert Brooks used to be funny; now, not even The Muse can help him

The Enemy Is Us

Arlington Road insists things are worse than you thought

All duded up

Jeff Bridges' wacked-out stoner carries the Coens' The Big Lebowski

Send in the clones

Art director brings flair to the franchise

Secondhand Rose

Streisand's fun-house Mirror warps her strengths into rare weaknesses

Imagine there's no Beatles

Caught between two generations of Beatles fans

Set adrift

White Squall's pious mythologizing sinks its rousing action scenes

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX