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Dana DriensleyShinsei executive chef Jason Czaja​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Jason Czaja, executive chef at Shinsei. Today, we asked Czaja to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. I was raised in...Born on the Indiana side of Chicago. Mom, Dad, litt ... More >>

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Dana DriensleyShinsei executive chef Jason Czaja​On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on Jason Czaja, executive chef at Shinsei. Today, we asked Czaja to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. I was raised in...Born on the Indiana side of Chicago. Mom, Dad, litt ... More >>

Devil May Care

Big Red returns in a mindless, revved-up Hellboy sequel

Will Smith Impresses in I Am Legend

That old "last man on Earth" setup? It really works.

Jackson 101

"They're not dead exactly"

Halo 3: Dallas Finishes the Fight

"They're not dead exactly"

Seasoned Right

Das Barbecu is short, spicy and sweet

Bob Shaye's New Line

Movie mogul taps into his inner child

The Short Goodbye

Movie mogul taps into his inner child

Southern Fried

Movie mogul taps into his inner child

Hero With a Thousand Faces

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion earns our highest score.

Kid Stuff for Parents

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion earns our highest score.

Lights, Camera, Play!

They're not exactly Pixar, but a crew of Highland Park teens find fame--not fortune--making machinima movies on the Xbox

Love the Sin

They're not exactly Pixar, but a crew of Highland Park teens find fame--not fortune--making machinima movies on the Xbox

Monkey Business

Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long

Homewreckers on DVD

Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long

Heaven Help Them

Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey are Peter Jackson's HeavenlyCreatures

Days of Future Passed

Sky Captain zooms back to a tomorrow that never was

A New Texas Jam

Crossroads Guitar Festival celebrates six-strings and the men who make them famous

Monster Smash

Van Helsing explodes monster movie legends with hip upgrades

Upper Middle Earth

The Return of the King marks a zenith in cinematic potential

Creeping Crud

Cabin Fever revisits the gore flick, with obvious results

Reduced-Salt Dogs

In the slick and handsome Pirates of the Caribbean, more is somehow less

Funny and the Bunny

Fox keeps its place as best and worst network with three new shows

A Top 10 Odyssey

Looking back (and backward), 2001 had a few worthy mementos

Chamy's Eleven

You might have heard these, and definitely should have

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

In the Baggins

We're off to see the wonderful wizards of The Lord of the Rings

Fest Intentions

Despite a lack of big names, the Fort Worth Film Festival has plenty of hard hitters

The goddaughters

Sofia Coppola mixes nostalgia, suburbia, and teen lust into a volatile blend in The Virgin Suicides

A slightly dirty dozen

Although many standout films were released in 1998, no one movie really stood out

Mia & Peter & Liza & Mazursky

The USA Film Festival offers an unapologetic orgy of movie delights

Pure id

Tim Burton turns his ray gun on everything in sight when Mars Attacks!

Zoo story

Pegasus Theatre rounds out a Nicky Silver festival with Raised in Captivity

Grim reaper

The comic horror of The Frighteners eventually brings on the willies

Personal best

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

Natural women

Little Women is an old-fashioned movie in the very best sense

Fever dream

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