Sharon Stone

What You Need to Know From Sundance

The fest's best are the films to watch in the year ahead.

The Old, Good Total Recall

Always Be Prepared

Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey Mash-Up Fool's Gold is Pitiful

There is no gold at the end of this terrible flick

Buckets of Fun

In T3's Popcorn, salty satire; D-FW critics pepper actors with awards

Do You Have What It Takes To Take...I Mean Make A Hit?

History Lessons

The story of an '80s anti-apartheid activist carries overtones of the present

War on Tiara

In Pageant, six beauties in size 11 heels battle royally for the crown

Hokum or Yoakam?

How the Kentucky kid's pulled off a crazy little thing called a career

Digging in the Dirt

Reel Killer

The Deep Ellum Film Festival offers cinematic pleasures...just not in Deep Ellum.

Flower Power

Bill Murray is an aging Don Juan revisiting former loves in Broken Flowers

Meow Mixed

Catwoman prompts both purrs and hisses

Depress Tour

I coulda sworn I was there when they turned on the TV

Holiday Jeer

For a joyous holiday, Christmas sure has some bloody awful music

Lucky in Love

The Cooler, somewhat unbelievably, asks us to swallow a Las Vegas fairy tale

Dead All Over

There's something funny, not scary, about Cold Creek Manor

He Sees Everything

Plus: Seeing Red

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Where Every Man's Gone Before

Captain Picard makes it so-so with King of Texas

The Naked Truth

When it comes to Dallas' practice of prosecuting low-level porn clerks, jurors know hypocrisy when they see it

Something about Stephan

After 25 years in Dallas' restaurant jungle, Stephan Pyles has come out respected and rich. How does he stay so clean?

The talking penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight

Porn to sell

Product placement comes to adult videos...hey, watch where you put that thing!

By a nose

The tense but plodding Simpatico is no day at the races

Journey, man

Kevin Bacon hasn't been in every movie ever made -- it just feels like it

Still life

The Deep Ellum Center for the Arts is celebrating its first year. If it can't figure out what it wants to be, it may also be its last.

God help him

Albert Brooks used to be funny; now, not even The Muse can help him

Round midnight

Sure, Mighty Peking Man stinks, but that's half the fun

They like me! They really like me!

With the Leon Rabin Awards, Dallas toasts its theater artists without really benefiting them

Freak show

Boys bond in cinematic fairy tale more grim than Grimm

Workers' compensation

A way underground film with a cast of millions!

Cat fight

Hat's off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer left--and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

Events for the week

Stay of execution

Last Dance struggles with the burden of being Dead Man Walking lite

Women, on the verge

Studios and audiences are embracing an overdue trend: female-empowerment films

A fiend, indeed

The remake of Diabolique is a stale, creaky version of the sick French classic

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Paradise lost

With Casino, Scorsese brilliantly leads us down the primrose path to heaven--and hell--on earth

For tits sake

The biggest boobs in the campy fleshfest Showgirls are its writer and director

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Events for the week

Rushes

Dead bang

Sam Raimi's gonzo Western The Quick and the Dead is ludicrously entertaining

Iron butterfly

Last Seduction star Linda Fiorentino revels in bitchiness