This week, the Cheap Bastard eats at the Purple Onion, 1838 Irving Blvd., 214-747-0101. The place has a picture of a Viking on the wall, yet she neglects to make any Spam-Spam-Spam jokes. That's it, then. Alice is out of the audio-video club. Number of pictures on the wall of guys in Viking helmets ... More >>
Everyone's favorite Victorian detective gets a Bond makeover.
The star trumpeter plays Fort Worth
Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower
In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing
Gilligan and company shipwreck onstage
David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off in Zodiac
Richard Linklater's Scanner is a rotoscoped feast for freaks
Game 6 redeems Michael Keaton after he almost fouled out
Starbucks pitchman Michael Bublé visits Fort Worth
Thought the RIAA was bad when they sued downloaders? You ain't heard nothin'.
Downey and Kilmer make perfect detectives in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Red Scare returns in Good Night, and Good Luck
Hobo (Big Deal)
Why the biggest deal at Sundance was no big deal at all
Rock memoirs take us behind the music
Nicole Kidman falls in love with a 10-year-old boy... sorry, her dead husband
Harpist Joanna Newsom: strange, hypnotic, dark, bizarre and absolutelygodawful
A mean ghost kid kicks Halle Berry's ass in Gothika
Addison's Out of the Loop Festival stages some strange, dark, wonderful works
Silverman's bitter "comedy" is enough to make you turn off your heartlight
Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career
Unwrapping our annual roundup of musical season's greetings--and beatings
From prison to another hellhole
Celebs and poseurs mix-a-lot in this surprisingly effective look at rap, race, and sex
Curtis Hanson builds us a cheese sandwich out of Chabon's novel
This solidly retro Oscar winner will satisfy nostalgia for old-fashioned melodramas
James Toback's startling new film dives into the messy mindlessness of sex
Altman uses his magic to distract us from the same old Grisham-isms in The Gingerbread Man
Mouth to Mouth does more than phone it in
Danny Boyle and John Hodge make Trainspotting feel good--for a while
With Home For the Holidays, Jodie Foster has created a sloppy paean to family disharmony
