Academy Awards

Killer Joe And What's Wrong With Hollywood

William Friedkin tells us why modern action films disappoint.

Houston Symphony: Wizard of Oz

Classic Bogart Movies at Miller: Casablanca

Looney Toons

Experimental Eye

2012 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (Documentary)

West Side Story

Capsule Stage Reviews: Menopause The Musical, Oscar in the Box, See Rock City & Other Destinations, The Tempest

Capsule Stage Reviews: 13 Miles from Security, Oscar in the Box, Play On!, Shout! The Mod Musical, Whatever Happened to the Villa Real?

Death To The Academy Award For Best Original Song

Being both a music nerd and a movie geek, my interest was piqued when it was revealed that this year only two songs were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. I wondered how the Academy decided that there were only two songs worthy of competing for the award, and how those songs we ... More >>

2011 Oscar Nominees: Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Top 10 Films to Celebrate Black History Month

In 1926 historian Carter G. Wilson began what was known as Negro History Week in an effort to make the African American story more prevalent in our culture's consciousnesses. The week evolved into an entire month-long celebration and promotion of African American history, which we recognize this mon ... More >>

Oscar Categories That We Wish Existed

By now you have all seen this year's Oscar nominations, released yesterday, in Beverly Hills, California. Nine films were nominated for Best Picture, including Hugo, Moneyball, War Horse, The Artist, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life. Fun stuff, espe ... More >>

Your 2011 Fall/Winter Movie Preview - Part 2

​You know the drill: the fall movie season starts today, my pretties (my review of Contagion will be up soon...there's a reason it didn't make the preview). Yesterday we covered the first half of 2011's most anticipated upcoming releases, determined through a rigorous scientific analysis consi ... More >>

The Matchmaker

Jekyll and Hyde

Stitched

Three 6 Mafia

Oscar Liveblogging!! Tonight, of All Nights!

Too bad Chalie Sheen's not hosting​Tonight brings the annual event where Hollywood humbly congratulates itself -- and all the little people -- in the Academy Awards. Whate everyone's hoping for, of course, is at least one trainwreck moment. James Franco and Anne Hathaway host, which will be. ... More >>

Oscar Night 2011: The Live Blog!

​We are only less than three hours out from bringing you live-blogging coverage, right here, of this year's Academy Awards, and we are more than excited to take you through the night for every win, loss, awful dress, awesome dress, foible, and foul-up Hollywood throws our way.

Legion of Doom

A neophyte Roman general flies like The Eagle.

2010 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Dogtooth

Salvadoran American Cultural Day

We think the festival's title lost something in translation - like an extra day

Waking Sleeping Beauty

What's a princess to do?

We (Love) Jeff Bridges Film Festival: Crazy Heart

See the role that won the venerable actor an Oscar

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Today's DVDs: The Thrill Of Victory, The Agony Of Valentine's Day

Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Who else was Clint gonna call?​Director Clint Eastwood, actors Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. That powerhouse trio could have chosen to tell just about any story they wanted and made it into an Academy Award worthy film. They chose Invictus, the real-life story o ... More >>

Little House on the Prairie, the Musical

Ma sure looks a lot like Laura, hmm

Unidentified Man, Bayou Body Count No. 87

​Seeing as it memorializes a resounding Nazi victory over American forces, Kassarine Pass Street, the site of a South Park double shooting last night, would seem to be oddly named. In the November 1942 Tunisian desert tank battle, Panzers in Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps trounced a badly-led an ... More >>

Oscars Unhinged

If you can't make it to the red carpet, try the rainbow carpet

Murder on a Sunday Morning

A white woman's dead and the black teenager accused of killing her is guilty until proven innocent

Bring It On: The 2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston Starts Tonight

Photo by Sandra Koop​The 2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston is rolling out the red carpet as we speak, for today's opening night screenings.Over at the Angelika Film Center, the highly anticipated Precious starts at 7 p.m., while over at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the festival's opening nigh ... More >>

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Breakfast Klub owner Marcus Davis presents his favorite flick

Starship Troopers

Web exclusive

Z

The murder of peace activist Gregoris Lambrakis retold

New French Shorts

Get ready for Bastille Day with Francophile flicks

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Garden

South Central’s largest community garden grows vegetables — and controversies

Scrooge

Dickens gets a nice score in this ‘70s musical movie

Network

Web exclusive!

Texas Horror Movies: The Top Five

Three 6 Mafia: Last 2 Walk

You Can’t Take It with You

Messed-up families: always in style!

Jewish film festival

The JCC holds its fourth annual cinema gala

Alls I’m Sayin’ is Juno Better Win Best Picture

Dreamgirls

TUTS brings a box-office smash back to the stage

Oscar Wild!

Where to watch the stars

Bar Brawl

Fighters duke it out in no-holds-barred cage matches

Best Movie Theater

River Oaks Theatre