T.E. Lawrence

Wambaugh, Thank You, Ma'am

Back to the Future

Bush Comes to Shove

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded some good harvest

Poetry in Slow Motion

Undermain Theatre returns from NYC with the puzzling, plodding Glamour

Dust to Dust

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

Young Blood

Joel and Ethan Coen pull down the pants on their first film

Jaws of life

Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster finally receives the DVD treatment it deserves

Safari to nowhere

A wobbly Basinger and a feeble screenplay doom I Dreamed of Africa

Screen dreams

A wobbly Basinger and a feeble screenplay doom I Dreamed of Africa

Leopard in the dunes

This Passion is sensitive, evocative, and visually stunning

City of angles

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

A Paramount mistake

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

"As an expression of racking emotion, and as a trip into an eroticized universe, 'VERTIGO' is nonpareil"

How Alfred Hitchcock wove his disturbing thriller into a landscape--and how a pair of obsessive archivists brought it back to luminescent life

Buzz

How Alfred Hitchcock wove his disturbing thriller into a landscape--and how a pair of obsessive archivists brought it back to luminescent life

Surf and turf

Austin's Teisco Del Rey resurrects the lost art of the twang