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Jim Thompson

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    December 22, 2011

    Best Films of 2011: Ten and Two to Grow On

    J. Hoberman's faves from a mutating medium.

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    July 15, 2010
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    February 18, 2010

    Shoeless Joe Comes to Leonard

    Dish Boggett ... er, D.B. Sweeney​By which I mean: D.B. Sweeney, who played Shoeless Joe Jackson in John Sayles's 1988 adaptation of Eliot Asinof's book Eight Men Out, and Leonard, Texas, a tiny town up in Fannin County. So happens that just as we were writing about all the TV shows shooting aroun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Because, Apparently, Oklahoma City Makes a Better Fort Worth Than Fort Worth

    The Texas flag's waving in the Oklahoma breeze at this very moment: Noted The Oklahoman yesterday, director Michael Winterbottom's about 200 miles north of here shooting the second big-screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1952 novel The Killer Inside Me, about a deeply disturbed West Texas lawman who ... More >>

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    June 1, 2006

    T Bone Burnett

    Twenty Twenty: The Essential T Bone Burnett (Columbia/DMZ/Legacy)

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    May 11, 2006

    Us vs. Us

    Hated Spurs have beloved Dallas roots

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    March 18, 2004

    L.A. Law

    If the talk doesn't rock, then you must walk

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    November 27, 2003

    Sweet Revenge

    Playwright Tracy Letts gets the last laugh on Dallas

  • Culture

    May 23, 2002

    Crimes of the Art

    Terry Allen's installation art speaks softly and avoids the big shtick

  • Film

    May 9, 2002

    Getting Taken

    In Nine Queens, the Argentineans do Mamet, damn it, even better

  • Music

    May 31, 2001

    Johnny Come Lately

    Johnny Dowd's twisted, desperate music sounds good at any age

  • Culture

    April 17, 1997

    Playing it for laughs

    Stage West maintains a comic sensibility in Simpatico

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    October 17, 1996

    Empty room

    The Chamber may be the best Grisham film yet-- if that means anything

  • Film

    May 9, 1996

    Heaven's gait

    Loopy pacing and awful performances doom the hell-bound Heaven's Prisoners

  • Film

    March 7, 1996

    The perfect crime

    The Coens' dazzling new Fargo rediscovers the horrible, prosaic allure of crime

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