Jodie Foster

A Weekend-by-Weekend Guide to This Summer's Biggest Movies

Silence is Golden (Then, Not)

Opening Credits: Today's Cinematic Releases for Jan. 13

Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

Carnage: White People With "Problems"

You Think Your Family's a Pain

The Beaver: Mad, but not Madcap

This time Mel Gibson just plays crazy.

After The Hangover: Lone Star Creator Kyle Killen Talks About The End (For Now?) of His Canceled (Or Not?) FOX Series

Courtesy FOX BroadcastingKyle Killen and Eloise Mumford on the set of the pilot episode of Lone Star (back when it was known as Midland)​Kyle Killen began yesterday in Covington, about 90 minutes southwest of Dallas on U.S. 67. He was on the set of Lone Star, of course, his FOX series about the co ... More >>

Last Night: Titus Andronicus, Soft Envoronmental Collapse, Bizarro Kids at Sons of Hermann Hall

Titus Andronicus, Soft Envirtonmental Collapse, Bizarro KidsSons of Hermann HallAugust 31, 2010Better than: sitting through Shakespeare, even at his goriest.Titus Andronicus​Titus Andronicus may have been the headliners at Sons of Hermann Hall last night, but even that band admitted while on stage ... More >>

True Story of Dallas Art Dealer and Homeless Fort Worth Man Gets a Star: Sam Jackson

It's doubtful the light saber will be necessary this time 'round. Still. Better safe than sorry.​For three years, a book recounting the relationship between a wealthy Dallas art dealer (Ron Hall) and a once-homeless Fort Worth man (Denver Moore) has been a steady hit on the inspirational circuit; ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Last Respects For An OG Longboarder

Yesterday we said goodbye to one of the family. Tim "Temo" Watson (aka TMO, T-mo or Timo) was an essential part of the original ragtag gang of art punks and ditch skaters who had staked out mid-'80s Deep Ellum as the blank canvas where many of us would eventually leave our mark.Last week he lost his ... More >>

WaterTower gets little musical mileage from a girl, a bus and a busted face in Violet.

What You Lookin' At? Oh, I See -- the AFI Dallas Complete Lineup.

How the West Was Wasted

Cotton Bowl: Goodbye, Dallas. Hello, Palace.

Like it or not, relocation is the right Cotton-pickin' decision.

What the Hell is Tilda Swinton Talking About?

Jodie Foster, Superhero

Leaping thugs in a single bound, our Brave leading lady takes back the night

The Terrorist's Mind

It's a Crime

Spike Lee's Inside Man plots the heist of your moviegoing dollars

Star Spanglish Girl

Pick Pico de Gallo for hot comedy with smarts; at WaterTower's Cabaret, the wurst of times

Always a Bridesmaid

Skirt-chasing Vince Vaughn is Wedding Crashers' master of ceremonies

Refuse to Lose

Musician Christy Darlington could have—and perhaps should have—quit years ago. So why didn't he?

Car & Driver

It's the feel-bad movie of the week

Casts of Killers

Assassins at Quad C, convicts at SMU, plus murder in Tuna, Texas

He Sees Everything

Plus: Seeing Red

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Flesh for Fantasy

Brett Ratner tarts up this Red Dragon adaptation

Unholy Communion

Altar Boys' mix of youthful flashback and edgy animation never quite gels

Slight Club

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

Fava Beans and Ham

Hannibal proves that Hopkins without Foster just doesn't equate

Monkey Business

William Dembski thought Baylor University would be the perfect place to investigate a scientific alternative to Darwinism. He didn't know he'd be crucified for his cause.

Gregory wise-ass

A crown jewel

You should get to know Anna and the King all over again

Screen dreams

Not nearly Beloved

Toni Morrison's novel makes an awkward transition from page to screen

Kid cubist

Twelve-year-old Alexandra Nechita is fooling art patrons as the "Petite Picasso"

Punk angst debunked

Darlington does the twist

Soft touch in the head

Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting is all heart, no brain

Letters

To coldly go

Contact is more like close encounters of the turgid kind

New Direction

Oscar-winning bad guy Kevin Spacey tries a new role--director

Pixel Pleasures

The tenth annual Dallas Video Festival shows why video is eclipsing film as the mass art medium

Fractured fairy tales

Theatre Three prances Into the Woods with charm

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Buzz

Overstuffed bird

With Home For the Holidays, Jodie Foster has created a sloppy paean to family disharmony

Second-hand thrills

Two great actresses get stuck holding the Xerox in Copycat

Street scenes

Harvey Keitel talks about being discovered after 20 years of acting

Magnificent obsession

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

Rushes

Blood sisters

Nell and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle invoke mythological American women