Stanley Kubrick

Rediscovering a Strangelove

Theatre Too does wrong by Durang; at the Bath House, The Housekeeper keeps it clean

The Games People Play

Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you, again

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 15

Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you, again

Snow Business

Two Dallas filmmakers recall Sundancing as fast as they can

It's a Crime

Spike Lee's Inside Man plots the heist of your moviegoing dollars

The Real World

The Dallas Video Festival shows all the news not fit for print

A Grand Guy

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

What Makes Him Tick

Plus: No Look

A Top 10 Odyssey

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

Dust to Dust

Once more, a man calls upon the troops to save The Alamo, before it's gone forever

Cumming Up

Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

Southern Breezes

Even in death, Terry Southern remains larger than life

Out & About

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Back to the Future

Robert Wise finishes Star Trek: The Motion Picture--22 years later

What Crisis?

How Kevin Costner learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

Southern Fried

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

Blurred vision

What will 1999 be remembered for -- Malkovich's head or Cartman's ass?

All's well that ends well

Texas hasn't followed art trends in the '90s -- and that's A-OK

Rubberneckin'

Leap-frogging through history with the Toadies

Talking up The Ticket

Or: Why The Fake Johnny Oates is better than the real thing

Waiting was the hardest part

Terrence Malick emerges after 20 years with his complex but compelling The Thin Red Line

The Why? movie

The X-Files reveals enough good stuff, but offers more questions than answers

Charlie Chardonnay

Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner offers up a yuppie Joe Six-Pack who's little more than an empty suit

Drink up

Alan Rudolph rises from the ashes in a suave, smoky Afterglow

Building the perfect beast

Phil Tippett and his studio--creators of Starship Troopers' murderous bugs--are envisioning the digital future of creature features

City of angles

How Curtis Hanson turned James Ellroy's epic crime novel L.A. Confidential into one of the year's best films

Pure id

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

GROUND ZERO

Atomic Cafe filmmaker Jayne Loader has won raves for her CD-ROM Public Shelter, but calls the 'new medium' a dud

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Auteur, auteur!

Burnt by the Sun and The Glass Shield illustrates the pitfalls of total artistic control

Thug life

A new stage version of A Clockwork Orange resounds with prophecy

Magnificent obsession

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

Bloodlust

Interview with the Vampire and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein try to invigorate the horror genre