Coen Brothers

New Film Queens of Country Has a Bizarre Vibe That Is Distinctly Arizona

Whatever Works

The Dirt Daubers @ Rhythm Room

Rug Runners

Wild, Man

The Dude to Make an Album

​As everyone knows, The Dude was in the music business, briefly. As a roadie for Metallica during the Speed Of Sound tour. The band was, reportedly, a bunch of assholes.Now the Dude, using his professional alias Jeff Bridges, will record an album with Oscar and Grammy award winner T-Bone Burnett f ... More >>

Hanna: Virtuoso Filmmaking and Retro Politics Propel This Crisp Thriller

​As everyone knows, The Dude was in the music business, briefly. As a roadie for Metallica during the Speed Of Sound tour. The band was, reportedly, a bunch of assholes.Now the Dude, using his professional alias Jeff Bridges, will record an album with Oscar and Grammy award winner T-Bone Burnett f ... More >>

Jimmie Dale Gilmore (a.k.a. Smokey from The Big Lebowski) Performs Live and More from SXSW

Jonathan McNamaraJimmie Dale's SXSW Showcase at the Driskell Hotel.​Remember Smokey, the pacifist who may or may not have stepped over the line while bowling in The Big Lebowski? He was the fidgety, silver-haired opponent who insisted The Dude mark it eight despite Walter's contention that his toe ... More >>

True Grit: How the West Is Won

Jonathan McNamaraJimmie Dale's SXSW Showcase at the Driskell Hotel.​Remember Smokey, the pacifist who may or may not have stepped over the line while bowling in The Big Lebowski? He was the fidgety, silver-haired opponent who insisted The Dude mark it eight despite Walter's contention that his toe ... More >>

Raising Arizona

Jonathan McNamaraJimmie Dale's SXSW Showcase at the Driskell Hotel.​Remember Smokey, the pacifist who may or may not have stepped over the line while bowling in The Big Lebowski? He was the fidgety, silver-haired opponent who insisted The Dude mark it eight despite Walter's contention that his toe ... More >>

Carolina's: Lunch $10 and Under

​Lunch has been put on hold for too long and crankiness is setting in. Eating has got to be a priority and pronto. Thank god for Carolina's. With multiple locations, no frills, and satisfying food at cheap prices, it's just the thing. Carolina's original location downtown at 12th Street and Mo ... More >>

Year in Film: Best Films of 2009

​Lunch has been put on hold for too long and crankiness is setting in. Eating has got to be a priority and pronto. Thank god for Carolina's. With multiple locations, no frills, and satisfying food at cheap prices, it's just the thing. Carolina's original location downtown at 12th Street and Mo ... More >>

A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers Aim Their Contempt at Members of "the Tribe"

​Lunch has been put on hold for too long and crankiness is setting in. Eating has got to be a priority and pronto. Thank god for Carolina's. With multiple locations, no frills, and satisfying food at cheap prices, it's just the thing. Carolina's original location downtown at 12th Street and Mo ... More >>

Former Ghosts At Trunk Space: An Early Haunting

By Frances Michelle Lopez Frances Michelle Lopez​The throngs of excited First Friday goers seemed to have been M.I.A at the Trunk Space Friday night for the One AM Radio, Former Ghosts, Knesset show. Having had a late start to my night, I wasn't able to catch much of the Los Angeles-based One AM ... More >>

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

New Orleans guitar hero/film star hits the Rhythm Room

Burn After Reading: the latest Coen brothers mockery

New Orleans guitar hero/film star hits the Rhythm Room

Academy Award-winning No Country for Old Men makes the jump to DVD

New Orleans guitar hero/film star hits the Rhythm Room

Bad Blood

Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007

Badlands

Coen brothers transcend themselves

Greetings From Toronto . . .

Where old masters, drunk teenagers, and Asia Argento make the fest's first week a blast

349 Movies To Go

Sacré merde! The onslaught that is Toronto Fest

The Office Meets Deliverance

Satire and horror make for bad synergy

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes

About a Boi

OutKast’s Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South

Art Scene

Current shows, exhbitions and installations

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of October 18

Current shows, exhbitions and installations

Bar Code

Laws of Attraction is so generic, it oughta be illegal

Suth'n Comfort

Tom Hanks steals the Coens' latest by playing -- get this -- funny

A Ball, Screwed

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

Randy Newman

Good Old Boys (Rhino/Reprise)

Mighty Mediocre

Wind bags a few charming laughs, but mostly meanders

Grand Dames

The big-screen gals of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Old News

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

Townes Van Zandt

The Best Of (Tomato)

A Gentle Evening With (Dualtone)

A Hard Day's Knight

As promised, Brian Helgeland's new movie rocks

You've Got Female

Off-kilter but funny, One Night at McCool's isn't a bad way to spend an evening

Various Artists

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

Everything Old Is New Again

You gotta do your homework on the originals if you really want to appreciate Shadow of the Vampire and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A Comedy of No Errors

Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou? hits a Homer

Rods and Coens

Remastered Blood Simple still packs a lot of heat

Stalkin' Trash

Trailer-park culture unhitched in lowbrow Drowning Mona

First-Quarter Projections

Trailer-park culture unhitched in lowbrow Drowning Mona

Sash 'n' Burn

Drop Dead Gorgeous beauty pageant spoof isn't even skin deep

A Slightly Dirty Dozen

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

Your Fiends and Neighbors

Clay Pigeons pokes and pries at country discomforts

Bowling for Dullards

Bridges scores, Coens overshoot lane in wacked-out Big Lebowski

Hype, Hype, Hooray

Remembering 1996's overlooked--and way overrated--films

The Late Show

Entertainment journalist Bill Rocz has left the screening room

Snow Coens

Entertainment journalist Bill Rocz has left the screening room

HOOP AND GLORY

Entertainment journalist Bill Rocz has left the screening room