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This is really clever. Someone who goes by the handle of barringer82 came up with his 100 favorite films of all time and then compiled clips...

City of Men (2008) A mix of credible sociology and tired melodrama, along with a palpable sense of déjà vu. Because the plight of boyz ...

The New York Times is doing a series of articles exploring medical treatments that are in wide use even though there is little evidence that...

It's all well and good that AT&T decided to relocate to Dallas, but the relocation we really need here -- the one that will solve al...

You can take this information to the bank. When the Emmy nominees are announced July 17 five of these 10 programs will be the nominees for b...

The New Jersey Nets are really looking good right now. First, they pawned off Jason Kidd and his huge contract on the Dallas Mavericks. Then...

What do the following people have in common? Monty Williams, John Wallace, Walter McCarty, Dontae Jones, John Thomas, Frederic Weis, Donnell...

Last year's freshman class on the Dallas City Council was the largest that I can remember since the inception of 14-1 election system. H...

There are a lot of people in this town, including a number I respect and admire, who simply do not understand the debate involving the wages...

If this story and and this story weren't related before, here's hoping they are now.

The New York Times ran a story this morning on Thursday's NBA draft which contained the following sentence (good news for the Mavericks...

Sharon Boyd, a familiar voice among those who speak about city affairs, begins a recently posted article by admitting that she's "...

10,000 B.C. (2008) One doesn’t expect intelligent scripting or deep characterization from director Roland Emmerich, but this film’s lack of...

Paulville : If this wasn't so scary, it might be somewhat funny. Well, it still might be somewhat funny, especially if we could get some...

Jeff Siegel, writing on the Advocate's Back Talk blog, one of my personal favorites (both the author and the blog), maintains: "My ...

While the Dallas City Council and our citizens-at-large are debating the pros and cons of a more restrictive pet ordinance, I hope they take...

President Bush's announcement that he would seek to lift restrictions on offshore oil exploration so that Americans would not face such ...

Manohla Dargis composed a wonderful appreciation of Cyd Charisse for today's editions of The New York Times. Here's my favorite par...

I am not going to go as far as to say that racism and sexism are dead in this country -- one only has to read the reaction from people in Da...

Be Kind, Rewind (2008) Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow. Written and directed by Michael Gondrey. An unambiguous celebration o...

I am glad someone else is going on record about this, and for reasons, eloquently expressed, that I neglected to mention .

According to this story in today's New York Times, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was known as the city that would never flood. Today, it is under...

I've finally come around. After watching this game last night, I must admit that the Celtics are a better team than the Los Angeles Lak...

My favorite line from this story is: "The road was closed while the Hartford Police Department's bomb squad came and blew up the c...

I have three good reasons why Industrial Boulevard should be named after Cesar Chavez and all three in one way or another are connected to t...

BY PHILIP WUNTCH Film Critic Emeritus "Sex and the City" is no longer just a movie. It's a pop-culture landmark. Or at least i...

The Bucket List (2007) Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson make the most of Justin Zackham’s script, but there just isn’t enough substance be...

Yes, the Democratic Party's convention will begin Aug. 25 in Denver. And, yes, Denver has a downtown convention center that was expanded...

With Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's eloquent and gracious exit speech yesterday, we now know who the two major nominees will be to succe...

Me thinks Ed Oakley is whistling this these days.

I'll leave it to others to write the official obituary for one of the true pioneering giants of rock 'n' roll but I had to love...

Boarding Gate (2008) ** There's basically only one reason to see Olivier Assayas's self-consciously hypermodern, meta-sleazy, Engli...

Carjackers have come up with a new trick that has apparently proved successful. They paste a piece of paper on a potential victim's rear...

Interesting story in yesterday's New York Times about all things Oprah. If you don't want to go to the link and read the entire pie...

By PHILIP WUNTCH Film Critic Emeritus None of the recent show business deaths touched me as personally as that of Sydney Pollack , the Oscar...

California has a number of laws governing how people drive on highways that I wish Texas had the guts to incorporate and enforce. One of my ...

(Click on the title for a review) The Air I Breathe . Four short stories, each one involving a a different emotion--happiness, sorrow, pleas...

The Third Court of Appeals has agreed with what the sane world has been maintaining for six weeks now -- that the State of Texas had absolu...

By PHILIP WUNTCH Film Critic Emeritus Even on a list of four, being second-best is no disgrace. That's the lesson to be culled from ...

Netflix is getting ready to market a gadget that will allow consumers to do with the Post Office what they did with Blockbuster: bypass it. ...

The City Council's Economic Development Committee was briefed today on the troubled (i.e., money-losing) Southern Skates Skating Rink l...

(Click on the title to read a review) Bra Boys : Russell Crowe narrates this documentary about a gang of surfer-thugs living in a Sydney su...

A foul is supposed to be bad thing in sports, something for which the team that commits it is assessed a penalty. You wouldn't think th...

First IBM sold its personal computer business to an outfit out of China. Now comes word that GE may be selling its appliance division. Is th...

According to English folklore, Tom Thumb was a lad who was smaller than his father's thumb. Why J.R. Bost and Bob Cullum called their gr...

A little over a week ago, May 7 to be exact, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band played a historic concert at the Count Basie Theater in...

... are good about Ari Folman's " Waltz With Bashir ," an animated documentary (an interesting concept) about the 1982 massacr...

By PHILIP WUNTCH Film Critic Emeritus The official grand opening of the Inwood Theater's renovated downstairs auditorium will coincide w...

Now that the City of Dallas has taken the first giant steps toward the construction of a convention center hotel, someone must realize that ...

I'm not sure why I putting these two items together, but, gosh darnit, they just seem related somehow: 1. The Interior Department has de...