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No need for a babysitter, Big Brother will do it; and Britain has moral scolds just like America

New American version of haunted-house film follows the same tack as its Japanese predecessor, but is strangely neutered by its infusion of blond American actresses.

Guest performers bring cameo cutups to Tongue and Groove Theatre's production of The Comedy of Errors

Witnessing a mob hit can be a real drag.

An affectionate parody of 1950s sci-fi movies, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra spoofs ’til it poops out.

Three players learn how to be good fathers and real men amid lots of stereotypes and tastelessness.

Rev your engines: The first bike movie of the year is here.

The Merchant Ivory team say "I do" to romantic comedy.

With The Heads, Hands, and Toe Show, Tongue and Groove Theatre literally takes out the middle, man, using low-tech effects to create a series of movement pieces where only the arms, feet, and heads of the performers are visible, and the overall effect is simple fun.

TNN decides what men want.

Eggheads pays fond tribute to the cinematic screwball comedies of the 1930s, and though the specific style of those comedies was old decades before the actors in Tongue and Groove Theatre's production were born, they breezed through it, cracking wise and slinging slang, as nimbly as Busby Berkeley chorines tapping down 42nd Street.

Third Place

TV Eye checks out Time Warner Cable's Digital Video Recording system.

Are the Strokes great? The Chronicle's Christopher Gray says no, but talks to them anyway.

Eminen's semi-autobiographical story of a young, white rapper on the rise in Detroit has a soft-focus Hollywood tint.

Actor, writer, choreographer, and Troupe Texas company member Sarah Ing has passed away at the age of 29.

The Tongue and Groove Theatre gang have some serious fun with the disconnect between dreaming and waking life in their world premiere production of Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One), a 1940s-era suite of songs linked by spoken text, follows a dreamer across time and space to various landmarks of both the ancient world and the modern U.S.

Chronicle Food writer MM Pack gives the lowdown on where to eat in Austin if you're out all night.

Pills in the hand are worth a mouthful of Bush and some Texas Film Hall of Fame teasers are the tip of this week's dish iceberg.

The servants know all in this Altman mystery set in a British countryside estate in the Thirties.

Art Davis' new play The Moontower's Glow is a spiritual cousin to both The Rocky Horror Show and You Can't Take It With You, focusing on a houseful of eccentrics who have rejected the normalcy of society to live their dreams, no matter how ludicrous they may appear to the rest of the world.