Motion Picture Association of America

Jack Valenti Had a Very Good Excuse for Missing the AFI Dallas International Film Festival

Don't Mess with Texas' Film Bidness

Thanks for the mammaries

Sexploitation pioneer Russ Meyer revels in the permissiveness he helped create

Channel surfing

The 1994 Dallas Video Festival mixes equal parts ineptitude and brilliance

For art's sake

Dallas congressman Bryant moves to bar 'defacement' of movies

Dirty words

Kids director Larry Clark discusses the volatile combination of movies and teen sex

Directing his life

Albert Brooks talks about his Mother and a character called Albert Brooks

CDs on steroids

Albert Brooks talks about his Mother and a character called Albert Brooks

Joe Bob in Bloom

John Bloom has taken his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, and gone Hollywood. But watching America's favorite drive-in movie critic on television these days, a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself

Asian invasion

As the Hong Kong movie industry collapses, scads of Chinese filmmakers and actors are landing big jobs in Hollywood

Blown Off

Identity-theft victim gets the cold shoulder

The Unborn

The Unborn raids the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to Auschwitz

Controversial Bob

See Kevin Smith's classic at the Inwood

Psycho Killer, Christian Bale

See a fa-fa-fine film at the Inwood

Be Kind Rewind Comes Up Short, Stale and Flat

Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking but disappoints

Film 2007: Bad Blood

Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007

Sorry Raters

Raucous doc catches moral watchdogs with their pants down

Greetings from Toronto...

Where old masters, drunk teenagers and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

Coal mining

Douglas' post-stroke performance adds some life to the formulaic Diamonds

Dirk's Little Secret

In an exclusive investigative report, we discover another all-star facet to the main Mav

The Reel Truth

Hollywood Claims the Sky is Falling. To Which We Say Puh-lease.

Strange Brew

The Truth is, Egoyan's latest is B-movie noir, with killer performances

Game Over

Sportswriter Frank Luksa says goodbye to the DMN

Rites of Spring

Bernardo Bertolucci revisits young love with The Dreamers

Advance Screening

Pssst, wanna see a movie that isn't out yet...legally?

Victor, Mature

Middle-aged Diane Keaton wins Jack Nicholson away from the young 'uns in Something's Gotta Give

Half Great

Kill Bill's missing something--like, oh, a proper ending

Viva Vistas

Dallas' Latino film festival keeps raising the bar

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

The Awful Truth

The malaise of one suburban teen is made vivid in the disturbing first feature film L.I.E.

Pi in Your Face

Director Darren Aronofsky makes films that resemble himself: smart and abrasive

Talkin' Smack

Aronofsky's follow-up to pi is a brutal personal movie about the horrors of drug addiction

Bigger, longer, and almost as funny

South Park parents battle the hideous threat of potty-mouth

Sex as a weapon

Kids and Love and Human Remains rattle us with apocalyptic sensuality

Outrage peers behind the closet door at Washington's not-so-secret gays

Kids and Love and Human Remains rattle us with apocalyptic sensuality

Party With the Grown-ups

Kids and Love and Human Remains rattle us with apocalyptic sensuality

Blue Valentine plumbs the emotional depths of a marriage unraveling.

Kids and Love and Human Remains rattle us with apocalyptic sensuality