Paul Newman

WaterTower Theatre's Stunning Our Town Reveals Timeless Truths, Raw Emotions

Neighborhood Services Tavern brings good taste to social networking

Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinners in Movies (And TV)

When it comes to movie holidays, Thanksgiving usually takes a back seat to that overplayed holiday in December. The one with the elves. The one that rhymes with "isthmus." (Sort of.) But why the second-class status, Thanksgiving? The holiday's got all the same potential for family chaos, waxing mor ... More >>

Getting Some Ed Rest, or: How Ya Feeling, Uncle Barky?

When it comes to movie holidays, Thanksgiving usually takes a back seat to that overplayed holiday in December. The one with the elves. The one that rhymes with "isthmus." (Sort of.) But why the second-class status, Thanksgiving? The holiday's got all the same potential for family chaos, waxing mor ... More >>

On the Occasion of Robert Benton's 76th Birthday, Paul Newman's Kind Words

When it comes to movie holidays, Thanksgiving usually takes a back seat to that overplayed holiday in December. The one with the elves. The one that rhymes with "isthmus." (Sort of.) But why the second-class status, Thanksgiving? The holiday's got all the same potential for family chaos, waxing mor ... More >>

Cool As Ice

See Newman at NYLO

Cheaper Onstage

The RTC takes on a dozen kids

Cowboy Up

Fort Worth goes Butch

Beat the Crowd

Fort Worth goes Butch

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 14

Fort Worth goes Butch

Flimflam Ma'am

The sting's the thing in Stage West's Bees; actor Wold gets elf control at WTT

Burning the Yule Log

The sting's the thing in Stage West's Bees; actor Wold gets elf control at WTT

The Gospel of Clear Skin

Djore sings at St. Luke

Theater Critics Camp, Day 2

Djore sings at St. Luke

OK! (L-A-H-O-M-A!)

Get a "beautiful feelin'" at Bass Hall

Kickin' the Tires

Pixar's latest is no lemon, but it does have that used-Cars smell

Beauty at Buchenwald

Pixar's latest is no lemon, but it does have that used-Cars smell

To Each Theron

Pixar's latest is no lemon, but it does have that used-Cars smell

Oh Grow Up

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

Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Phoenix

Monday, March 21, at Gypsy Tea Room

Stander Delivers

Thomas Jane, as folk hero, robs banks and steals a movie

Nobody's Fool

He has three Oscars, co-wrote Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Newman digs him. So why don't you know Dallas-born filmmaker Robert Benton?

Digging for Treasure

In these Holes lives a wry, thrilling kids film (for adults, too)

Graphic, Novel

Hanks and Newman are on the bloody and brilliant Road to Perdition

Meow Mix

WaterTower's Cat hisses and purrs; Curchack roars in Glimpsings

Black Hole Sons

Now a trio, Austin's Rhythm of Black Lines is the world's darkest jam band

Southern Fried

Those wacky Southern women return--again--in the trite Impossible Marriage

Out Here

Try, try again

Robber barren

Paul Newman fails to score in this empty caper flick

Against the wall

John Frankenheimer could have disappeared, but he refused to go away

That's ... acting!

Go Inside the Actor's Studio -- and never return

Scene stealers

Blush and Swivel don't want to change the world -- just Dallas

Lame hip

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

Return to sender

Get out your hankies and weep for the heart-tugging disaster Message in a Bottle

Night & Day

January 28 - February 3, 1999

Know when to fold 'em

Matt Damon trades his baby face for a poker face in Rounders

Out of a Trance

Trance Syndicate--Texas' best label--closes its doors, leaving Bedhead without a home

Dysfunction junction

11th Street Theater Project revives a Pulitzer play with mixed results

Lame horse

Redford's new film is like a horsey Bridges of Madison County--and it's way too long

Vote the rock

Just call these the Old 97's Observer Music Awards

Painfully bleak

Kirk Wong's new film is both deeply funny and unmistakably dark

Fade away

Twilight is all poses and fogged-in platitudes

Closet case

In & Out goes both ways--funny and funnier

Events for the week

In & Out goes both ways--funny and funnier

Cold War curio

The Seven Year Itch unearths heterosexual paranoia from the '50s

Good vibrations

Danny Boyle and John Hodge make Trainspotting feel good--for a while

America, America

The Perez Family and My Family chronicle the lives and dreams of immigrants

Farewell from Cracker Eden

Texas journalism loses a great writer and friend in Grover Lewis

Phallus idols

Nobody's Fool and Legends of the Fall peddle icons of masculinity

Personal best

From a year full of startling and memorable movies, here are our favorites