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Lone Star Rising

How obscure Texas actor Matthew McConaughey won the lead in Grisham's next big Hollywood thriller, A Time to Kill

Time killer

In A Time to Kill, the racial conflicts are just too black-and-white

To coldly go

Contact is more like close encounters of the turgid kind

Time to kill

McConaughey and Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers

Bush Is in the Back: A Video Round-Up!

The George Bush was in town yesterday. No, not that one -- this one. Bringing up the rear too. The trip was well-documented with two videos captured by "unkonshus," who deems the occasion a significant one, as ol' No. 41 was "in [the] Dallas city limits for the first time in over 4 years." See for y ... More >>

Phony folksy

Linklater tries to break out of the slacker doldrums, but misfires

The pickup artist

It's arty and low-budget, but don't be fooled--Hands on a Hard Body swims in the mainstream

Time to punt

Varsity Blues penalized for unsportsmanlike moviemaking

Letters

Varsity Blues penalized for unsportsmanlike moviemaking

TV or not TV?

Ron Howard fiddles with the question

Today In Music News: McConaughey Joins The Biz, Oklahoma Joins The Lips, Snoop Joins The Nation of Islam

 Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2009... All right, all right, all right: Matthew McConaughey has gotten into the music business!  Too bad he didn't take into account the fact that record labels are losing a lot of money. I always thought the official s ... More >>

Wipeout

 Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2009... All right, all right, all right: Matthew McConaughey has gotten into the music business!  Too bad he didn't take into account the fact that record labels are losing a lot of money. I always thought the official s ... More >>

Apocalypse Whatever

Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Back...and Loving It

Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

We Are Addison

See McConaughey coach football

Definitely, Maybe Digs Deeper Than Most Romantic Comedies

While channeling Woody Allen, this film offers a dinged-up love story

Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey Mash-Up Fool's Gold is Pitiful

There is no gold at the end of this terrible flick

Gyllenhellyeah

Donnie Darko's at the Inwood

Oh Grow Up

Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie and a pretty good one for us

Swindled Art

Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie and a pretty good one for us

Tex-cess

Everything's bigger in our state, especially the fan fakery

Fortunate Son

Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

March Madness

Irish eyes are smiling at the Greenville Avenue parade

Black on Black

Why Jables is a "cross between a lightning bolt and James Dean"

Urban Turban

Colleyville eatery strikes a pose

Horton Hears a "Wha?"

Colleyville eatery strikes a pose

Hudson Hawked

Kate gets the hard sell in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Flame On

Reign of Fire somehow makes dragons and Matthew McConaughey entertaining

Big Talkers

One thing is sure--13 Conversations makes a grand impression

The Lord's Work?

In Frailty, it's a Texas massacre with God's blessings

White-Bread Wedding

If you get an invite to this Lopez-McConaughey union, trash it

Re-boot

U-571 pays homage to great submarine movies and even provides a few surprises itself

Hash Over

Buck naked saint

Out of Africa

Spielberg delivers a wildly erratic--and tumultuously moving--historical epic with the overreaching passion of a man possessed

Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past: Matthew Mcconaughey Is Scary Bad

Spielberg delivers a wildly erratic--and tumultuously moving--historical epic with the overreaching passion of a man possessed

The Gourds Keep On Keeping On

Spielberg delivers a wildly erratic--and tumultuously moving--historical epic with the overreaching passion of a man possessed

Schutze has seen the future and it is community gardens-and a bunch of angry neighbors frightened of them

Spielberg delivers a wildly erratic--and tumultuously moving--historical epic with the overreaching passion of a man possessed

Breaking News: Uptown Popcorn Bitch-Slaps Orville Redenbacher

​Uptown Popcorn recently opened in NorthPark mall with more than 70 popcorn flavors that are way more tasty than that microwavable Orville Redenbacher's you have in your pantry. A mini bag of most of Uptown Popcorn's flavors will only set you back $1.75 and holds about three cups of crazy awes ... More >>

The Top 10 Shows on the New ESPN/UT Network

​Yesterday ESPN and Texas agree to a 20-year, $300 million deal to launch a 24-hour Longhorn network in September. Planned programming includes sports, original series, studio shows, historical programming and academic and cultural events. More precisely ESPN/UT hopes to televise at least one exc ... More >>

Couch Potato: What Is It With This Guy?

Matthew McConaughey (left) and Guy Fieri​Everything about Guy Fieri is big and boisterous, and has been that way ever since he walked off a winner in the Food Network's second season of the Next Food Network Star. His voice's volume and rasp call to mind an overworked cattle-auctioneer. His sh ... More >>

All Right, All Right, All Right: Matthew McConaughey To Resurrect Dallas Buyer's Club

​Four long years ago, it appeared Brad Pitt was all set to star in the story of Ron Woodroof -- the heterosexual, homophobic electrician who contracted HIV in 1980, was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and would go on to found the Dallas Buyer's Club, through which AIDS patients bought life-prolongi ... More >>

The Lincoln Lawyer: Matthew McConaughey's Shyster is the Role of His Life.

​Four long years ago, it appeared Brad Pitt was all set to star in the story of Ron Woodroof -- the heterosexual, homophobic electrician who contracted HIV in 1980, was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and would go on to found the Dallas Buyer's Club, through which AIDS patients bought life-prolongi ... More >>

They Stay The Same Age

​Four long years ago, it appeared Brad Pitt was all set to star in the story of Ron Woodroof -- the heterosexual, homophobic electrician who contracted HIV in 1980, was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and would go on to found the Dallas Buyer's Club, through which AIDS patients bought life-prolongi ... More >>

All Right, All Right, All Right: McConaughey To Throw Out First Pitch at Rangers Game Friday

​Your Texas Rangers play the New York Yankees on Friday night, first pitch at 7:05 p.m. Got tickets? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.Because, see, the Rangers just sent word that Matthew McConaughey will toss out the ceremonial first pitch, right before he heads to Houston to pick up Aerosmith tic ... More >>

Say, Matthew McConaughey, You Got a Rangers Jersey? It'd Be a Lot Cooler If You Did.

Photos by Patrick MichelsTurns out, Matthew McConaughey's got a pretty good arm.If you'd been in one particular basement in Arlington a little more than an hour ago, you would've stood square in the middle of a fairly strange scene: Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa standing around, cheerfu ... More >>

Yes They Cannes: Producers, Agents Shopping Dallas Buyer's Club 'Round France

Photo by Patrick Michels​After 10 long years of maybes, doubtfuls and dunnos, it would appear that The Dallas Buyer's Club, the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, is closer to becoming a big-screen reality: Relativity Media today issued a press release announcing that co-producer Robbie Brenner is sh ... More >>

Producer of Dallas Buyer's Club Talks About Why It's Been So Hard to Get Movie Made

Via.Hilary Swank​I got a call yesterday from the mighty Robbie Brenner, one of the producers of the fingers-crossed film The Dallas Buyer's Club, which, as you're surely aware by now, is the long-in-the-works adaptation of the true-life tale of Dallas electrician Ron Woodroof and his journey from ... More >>

Dear Miami, We Hate You. And Your Sports. Love, Dallas

Miami has Colin Farrel's lame mustache. We have shirtless Matthew Mcconaughey. ​Recently our brotherly blog down here in Miami concocted a list of reasons why Miami is a better city than Dallas. Same ol', lame-o stuff. Calling us fat and redneck and boasting that "nobody's ever killed a sitting pr ... More >>