Orson Welles

Ghosts Haunt Kitchen Dog's Turn of the Screw; at Nouveau 47, A-Gays Tells a Funny Coming-Out Story.

Go Colorblind at The Frequency of Death!

​For 26 years, Pegasus Theatre has been taking the color out of stage comedy. They do it in "Living Black and White," a trade-secret method of makeup, costume and scenery that strips all the color away onstage -- except for the slip of an actor's pink tongue or a glimpse of blue eyes. Pegasus' cu ... More >>

The Frequency of Death! -- Killing Time

Pegasus' annual black-and-white offering should pick up the pace.

Let's Get Smashed, Dudes!

​Smashburger2222 McKinney Ave.Dude Factor: 8, or Orson Welles, on a scale of 1 (Britney Spears) to 10 (David Hasselhoff)We'd been hearing positive buzz about the Addison Smashburger ever since it opened a little over a year ago. Unfortunately, we rarely go to Addison for burgers. We might venture ... More >>

Indie Filmmakers Take Over Texas Theatre Promising a Mix of the Classic and New-Fangled

​The original announcement came back in May: The Texas Theatre, threatened by the wrecking ball as recently as the mid-'90s, was on the road to recovery as a revival house -- a much-needed, much-welcomed addition to the local cinemascape. At present, the Texas is closed for much-needed, much-welco ... More >>

Three's A Crowd

​The original announcement came back in May: The Texas Theatre, threatened by the wrecking ball as recently as the mid-'90s, was on the road to recovery as a revival house -- a much-needed, much-welcomed addition to the local cinemascape. At present, the Texas is closed for much-needed, much-welco ... More >>

If You Had Hair Like a Mexican, You'd Let It Shine Too

​The original announcement came back in May: The Texas Theatre, threatened by the wrecking ball as recently as the mid-'90s, was on the road to recovery as a revival house -- a much-needed, much-welcomed addition to the local cinemascape. At present, the Texas is closed for much-needed, much-welco ... More >>

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 >>

Me and Orson Welles

​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 >>

High School Zero

​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 >>

10 Questions: Chris Ward

Mercury chef Chris WardChefs seem to come and go, but Ward endures...although he almost left when, several years ago, the former President's staff considered him for the White House chef position. Indeed, he was one of three finalists selected from more than 15,000 applicants. Oh, and he did take a ... More >>

Cabinet of Terror

Mercury chef Chris WardChefs seem to come and go, but Ward endures...although he almost left when, several years ago, the former President's staff considered him for the White House chef position. Indeed, he was one of three finalists selected from more than 15,000 applicants. Oh, and he did take a ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: Hospital Ships, The Presets, Terri Hedrix, Jars of Clay

Mercury chef Chris WardChefs seem to come and go, but Ward endures...although he almost left when, several years ago, the former President's staff considered him for the White House chef position. Indeed, he was one of three finalists selected from more than 15,000 applicants. Oh, and he did take a ... More >>

Miracle at Santa Anna

No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's World War II drama is an epic bore

Citizen Faux

Orson Welles calls out a faker

There Will Be Blood Strikes Oil and Then Some

Paul Thomas Anderson creates an epic gusher

Orson's Opus

Paul Thomas Anderson creates an epic gusher

Roky's Picture Show

Paul Thomas Anderson creates an epic gusher

Good Clean Smut

Paul Thomas Anderson creates an epic gusher

Me llamo Carlos Hestón

Touch of Evil plays at the Inwood

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

Ghost World

True-crime noir goes searching for Hollywood's heart of darkness

Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Why We Need DVDs

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Heaven Help Them

Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey are Peter Jackson's HeavenlyCreatures

Surveillance Footage

Suzanne Weaver unmasks Matthew Buckingham

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Suzanne Weaver unmasks Matthew Buckingham

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Suzanne Weaver unmasks Matthew Buckingham

Action!

It's a race to the finish for Dallas video-makers

Tough Sledding

Rosebud is far from a work of genius

Impossible Dreamer

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

Best Fancy Restaurant

The Mercury

Lazarus, Reborn

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

Cat Fight

Bogdanovich works out his demons on Citizen Hearst

Warp Speed Backward

Finally, a Star Trek: TMP worth the tribble

Gimme Swelter

Are you ready for the Summer? Don't be. It's all wet.

Cradle and all

Tim Robbins' Orson Welles project bites off more than it can chew

Better fed than red

Citizen rises above its quirks -- sometimes

Touch of Orson

All's Welles in Showtime's The Big Brass Ring

Lame hip

If you ain't art-house hip, better leap over this Frog

Eight is enough

Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

Back in black

Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

Retouching Evil

Using Detailed instructions left by Orson Welles, top film editor Walter Murch has remade "The Best b-Movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

Deja vu all over again

The cocktail party never ends in le cinema du Henry Jaglom

Stone cold

As film noir goes, U-Turn is all pulp and no meat

Shadows and light

Zeffirelli meticulously recycles the goof-proof romance Jane Eyre

Test Pattern

Zeffirelli meticulously recycles the goof-proof romance Jane Eyre

Stop making sense

Get Shorty is a riotous riff on movie moguls and mobsters

Letters

Get Shorty is a riotous riff on movie moguls and mobsters

Fever dream

The adolescent fantasy Heavenly Creatures is the best film Terry Gilliam never made