Billy Bob Thornton

Jon Rauhouse @ Crescent Ballroom

Steve Martin's Bluegrass Album Is No Joke

Six Degrees of The Elected

Blake Sennett of The Elected: Somehow connected to Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, and Bright Eyes.​The 1993 film Six Degrees of Separation, about how everybody is ultimately connected to everybody else through somebody else, has spawned some spin-offs -- most notably, the game "Six Degrees of Kevin ... More >>

A.V. Club's "Least Essential Albums of 2009" Right on the Money

Yes, that is Billy Bob Thornton's band. No, we didn't need to hear their latest album.​Sometimes an actor feels necessary to spread out their talent to other venues outside of cinema. They remember playing guitar in high school and deem themselves worthy musicians, unleashing album after album of ... More >>

John Prine Has Had Help from Many Famous Fans

Yes, that is Billy Bob Thornton's band. No, we didn't need to hear their latest album.​Sometimes an actor feels necessary to spread out their talent to other venues outside of cinema. They remember playing guitar in high school and deem themselves worthy musicians, unleashing album after album of ... More >>

Celebrate Santa's "Bad" Side Tonight In Tempe

Billy Bob Thornton as Willie T. Stokes, the model for Bad Santas everywhere. Everyone deserves to be a little dirty, even jolly old Saint Nick. In fact, we're sure he's probably in major need of a stiff shot and a lap dance right about know, especially since he's likely hip-deep in elves and p ... More >>

The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience

Billy Bob Thornton as Willie T. Stokes, the model for Bad Santas everywhere. Everyone deserves to be a little dirty, even jolly old Saint Nick. In fact, we're sure he's probably in major need of a stiff shot and a lap dance right about know, especially since he's likely hip-deep in elves and p ... More >>

Quantum of Solace Gives James Bond a License to Bore

Billy Bob Thornton as Willie T. Stokes, the model for Bad Santas everywhere. Everyone deserves to be a little dirty, even jolly old Saint Nick. In fact, we're sure he's probably in major need of a stiff shot and a lap dance right about know, especially since he's likely hip-deep in elves and p ... More >>

American Pie’s Thomas Ian Nicholas joins the rock club

Billy Bob Thornton as Willie T. Stokes, the model for Bad Santas everywhere. Everyone deserves to be a little dirty, even jolly old Saint Nick. In fact, we're sure he's probably in major need of a stiff shot and a lap dance right about know, especially since he's likely hip-deep in elves and p ... More >>

Southbyscurvy: The Best of SxSW

Billy Bob Thornton as Willie T. Stokes, the model for Bad Santas everywhere. Everyone deserves to be a little dirty, even jolly old Saint Nick. In fact, we're sure he's probably in major need of a stiff shot and a lap dance right about know, especially since he's likely hip-deep in elves and p ... More >>

Silent Night?

Not in IMAX 3D

Fly Me to the Moon

Daring to dream

Men Behaving Badly

Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in tepid man-child comedy

Common Cold

Just a reheated Christmas caper

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Just a reheated Christmas caper

Bad News

One more awful remake strikes out

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise

Not Rockne

A worthy actor rides the bench in the listless Coach Carter

Brazil Nuts

Superlative churrascaria in the enchanted kingdom of Ahwatukee

Hell of a Catch

A football movie that scores

The Hard Sell

Local filmmaker Shane Carruth won Sundance's top honor. So...now what?

A Second Opinion

Our critics pick the flicks that the best-of list overlooked

Meet My Shorts

Arizona filmmakers keep it reel

Big, Wet Kiss

Richard Curtis is in Love with love, so what's new?

A Ball, Screwed

The Coens make a '40s comedy with a Cary named Clooney

Mock Party

Warhol and company hop on Pop

You Hook Me All Night Long

Off the Hook's benefit concert takes a village, people

Hollow Man

Billy Bob comes close to nothingness in the curiously titled Levity

The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

Distance Between (Ultimatum Music)

Fight Club

When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

Banging Bigotry

A racist Billy Bob gets funky in Monster's Ball

Through a Lens Darkly

The Coen Brothers use black humor to put a new twist on film noir

The Bald and the Beautiful

Bandits plays out like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with bad hairpieces

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Various Artists

The Gift (Will), You can Count on Me (Artemis/E-Squared), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury)

The Psychic Network

So many movies have beat The Gift to the punch that it doesn't have any of its own

Mexican Jumping Scenes

All the Pretty Horses is pretty, has horses, and that's about all

Long Way Back

Dwight Yoakam's new acoustic retrospective casts a shining light on the preeminent alt-rocker

Princess Broods

An agile teen battles the forces of evil in the Japanese blockbuster Princess Mononoke

Going to the Welles

An agile teen battles the forces of evil in the Japanese blockbuster Princess Mononoke

Tin Men

Amid the pressure cooker of air traffic control, human foibles surface

A Slightly Dirty Dozen

Although many standout films were released in 1998, no single movie really stood out

Gallo's Humor

Fledgling filmmaker Vincent Gallo scores audacious debut with Buffalo 66

Deal Me Out

The Negotiator fails to hold viewer hostage

Disasteroid

All climax, no plot Armageddon deserves to be sent back to the meteor showers

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998

Savior Breath

Despite a rafter-raising lead performance, Robert Duvall's The Apostle hasn't a prayer

Indie Mood

Fourth annual Saguaro Film Festival offers cinema toast

Volley of the Drawls

Thornton's haunting, droll Sling Blade draws rich blood

Kin of Comedies

Thornton's haunting, droll Sling Blade draws rich blood