Tim Robbins

Shooting Blanks

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Rag trade

Robert Altman's surprisingly leaden look at the fashion industry is all dressed up with nowhere to go

Personal best

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

Stupid Dave tricks

Letterman's hijacking of the Oscars reveals his limitations

Dallas Observer critics Jimmy Fowler and James Mardis selected the following films on their lists of the year's best:

Letterman's hijacking of the Oscars reveals his limitations

Out There

Letterman's hijacking of the Oscars reveals his limitations

High voltage

Dead Man Walking hits your mind and heart like a lightning bolt

Basket-case studies

Eccentric directors Sam Fuller and Henry Jaglom make brilliant bookends

Stay of execution

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

Falling up

With Nothing to Lose, Robbins and Lawrence turn a loss into a tie

Downright unneighborly

Tenants of drug-infested apartments find that help is not just a phone call away

Mad Max

Pi offers up math nerds, Orthodox Jews, warmed-over Lynch, and the secret name of God

It's awful, baby, yeah!

Austin Powers can go shag himself

Youthful Indiscretions

How do bartenders spot underage drinkers?

Admit It: Death Cab Made You Vote

How do bartenders spot underage drinkers?

High time

John Cusack's romantic comedy about a man... and his record collection

The Terrorist's Mind

John Cusack's romantic comedy about a man... and his record collection

Extra! Read All About It

John Cusack's romantic comedy about a man... and his record collection

One-Toke Wonder

Tenacious D gets the band back together and... and... and?

History Lessons

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

Aboard Game

Zathura sweeps you into its alternate reality

Gross Encounters

Spielberg's War hikes up the gore, and that ain't a bad thing

Future Shock

Michael Winterbottom paints a plausibly problematic tomorrow in Code 46

Wine 'n' Dine

Toast the Resource Center

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

Heavy, Man

The heart wants what the brain has to fight for in 21 Grams

All the Rage

Eastwood takes a guilt trip down the mighty Mystic River

Black on Black

Why Jables is a "cross between a lightning bolt and James Dean"

Tough Sledding

Rosebud is far from a work of genius

Rescued, 9/11

A writer helps a New York City fireman mourn his Guys

War On War

Steve Earle wonders what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding

Yes, But Whose Truth?

Jonathan Demme remakes Charade, but it's hardly an imitation

Miscue 9/11

Hollywood drops another nuke in New York, and it's just a dud

Hairy Plotters

Ignoble savages go ape in Human Nature

The Pitch

In 1988, Ron Shelton made Bull Durham. In 2002, it couldn't be done.

Microsofties

If Antitrust were written in computer code, it'd come up all zeroes

Death Row Records

Steve Earle doesn't really care about Napster as long as our country still kills people

The Bit Player

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Mission implausible

De Palma went to Mars, and all he brought us was this messy movie

Cradle and all

Tim Robbins' Orson Welles project bites off more than it can chew

Reel power

Dallas-based Regent Entertainment vies to become a Hollywood player, and it's off to an Oscar-winning start

The Enemy Is Us

Arlington Road insists things are worse than you thought

Me and Orson Welles

Arlington Road insists things are worse than you thought

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Hunter S. Thompson Lives Thanks to Dallas' Michael Minzer (and Tim Robbins)

Allen Ginsberg and Michael Minzer during recording sessions in 1987​Michael Minzer sent me an email earlier this week containing the good news: His long-in-the-works Hunter S. Thompson record is finished. Finally. This is the one mentioned two years ago in the Evergreen Review piece done on Minzer ... More >>