Academy Awards

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow: The Godfather, Part 1

Chico and Rita

Capsule Stage Reviews: Dinner with Friends, Late Nite Catechism, Oscar in the Box, Whatever Happened to the Villa Real?

Just in Time for the Oscars: Koelsch Gallery's "lights, camera, action"

Just in time for the Oscars, the Koelsch Gallery's current exhibition, "lights, camera, action," captures the varied nuances that comprise America's beloved La La Land. The collection of work features several noted local artists such as Claire Cusack, Matt Duffin, Cisco Tucker Kolkmeier and Vanessa ... More >>

Get Your Live Blog on for the Oscars This Sunday

This Sunday, February 26, is the 84th annual Academy Awards and Art Attack has you covered before and after the ceremony. But what about during? How are you supposed to make it through all three hours (plus the red carpet) with nothing to do but stare at your TV and play the Billy Crystal drinking g ... More >>

Gone with the Wind

This Sunday, February 26, is the 84th annual Academy Awards and Art Attack has you covered before and after the ceremony. But what about during? How are you supposed to make it through all three hours (plus the red carpet) with nothing to do but stare at your TV and play the Billy Crystal drinking g ... More >>

15 Inferior Best Picture Oscar Winners (And the Enduring Classics They Beat)

Last Wednesday, Craiggers hit on some forgotten Best Picture Academy Award winners, films which have slipped through the cracks of society's consciousness for one reason or another; either for being too of-the-moment, not having enough quotable lines, or for simply not having held up very well -- hi ... More >>

Waste Land

Last Wednesday, Craiggers hit on some forgotten Best Picture Academy Award winners, films which have slipped through the cracks of society's consciousness for one reason or another; either for being too of-the-moment, not having enough quotable lines, or for simply not having held up very well -- hi ... More >>

One Day

Life happens according to plan.

Book of Mormon's Success Shows Apocalypse Is Near

Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. ​Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame are currently enjoying righteous success on Broadway with their musical The Boo ... More >>

On The Bowery

Mason Lankford said, "There will come a day when we forget the Rapture ever even happened," but Rocks Off is keeping an eye out for signs of our impending Armageddon. ​Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame are currently enjoying righteous success on Broadway with their musical The Boo ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Bill Shatner And Liz Taylor -- The Throwdown

Two classic thespians at the top of their game.​This week saw two milestones in the entertainment world. The first was the 80th birthday, on Tuesday, of Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner. The second was the unsurprising yet still depressing death yesterday of one of Hollywood's last true ... More >>

Worry-Free Entertaining

Jessica RisleyPear and taleggio pizza.​I threw my first party at age 15 while the parental units were out of the country. Not the smartest idea, but the gathering was pretty legendary. Since then, I have learned a thing or two. Some bits of wisdom are pretty obvious, like "don't feed your gues ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

"What are they filled with? Uh, mostly cream cheese. AND DESPAIR."​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're celebrating Houston's early spring weather by - and we apologize for the following imagery - oozing sunburn juice all over our shirt collars. Yes, Monday ... More >>

Bombay Pizza Company: Perfect for an Oscar Party

The Slumdog.​With Academy Awards season upon us again, I have a recommendation for your Oscar party, sure to increase the number of folks in your social network, and that, my friends, is Bombay Pizza Company downtown. I've wanted to try the Indian-Italian fusion-y joint since its inception b ... More >>

The Devil’s Rain

The cast includes Ida Lupino, John Travolta, William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine

The Lion in Winter

Forget the Tudors, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine were the real love-hate story

Buena Vista Social Club

The film that jump-started a return to the limelight by Rubén Gonzáles and Compay Segundo left one huge question unanswered: Why weren't they onstage for the last 50 years?

Celine Dion To Return For Mermaid Titanic Sequel?

​New York Craigslisters were abuzz, ABUZZ we tell you, when a posting went out for... Titanic 2: Mermaid Saviors. The ad reads as follows: Megamonolith Pictures is holding an open casting call for TITANIC 2: MERMAID SAVIORS, a sequel to the Academy Award-winning 1997 blockbuster TITANIC, on July 1 ... More >>

Main Street Theater: Arcadia

Tom Stoppard's brilliant play crosses time and space

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: We Love Jeff Bridges

See a retrospective of the recently crowned Oscar winner's screen work

A Few Possible Cures For Rocks Off's Acute "Can't Stay Home" Syndrome

Lev Kuperman/ myspace.com/viaaudio​ Monday night, an obviously delirious Rocks Off found ourselves upstairs at the Mink's Backroom instead of where we should have been, home in bed asleep. We enjoyed high-energy/lo-fi trio Vivian Girls, but at this point we are starting to realize we may have a pr ... More >>

Oscar Time

The 2010 Academy Award-nominated Shorts screen at the Angelika.

17th Iranian Film Festival

See The Song of Sparrows during today's installment of the Middle Eastern film fest

Garbage Dreams

Recycled choices make for a meager existence for Cairo’s slum boys

Houston Film Critics Society

And the winner is...

Please Help Us Give Away This Live Nation "Club Passport" We've Been Sitting on for Way Too Long

[Note: While we're on the subject of House of Blues shows, please note the Goodie Mob/Scarface concert scheduled for tonight has been rescheduled for Thursday, January 14.]www.drivebytruckers.com​Once again Rocks Off allowed ourselves to get distracted and nearly forgot we've got this Live Nation ... More >>

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The Fortune Cookie

Together for the first time, Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon

Rice Students Win That MTV Contest And Head To The Oscars

And it's Rice FTW!!!Sure, the basketball team sucks, the football program's a perpetual work in progress, and even the baseball team ain't what it used to be. But the Owls have DOMINATED the MTV contest to send people to interview celebrities on the Academy Awards red carpet!We told you about the tw ... More >>

As Oscar Nominations Loom, The Five Worst Best (Recent) Pictures

The paradox of the Oscars is that while nobody outside of the incestuous parallel reality of Hollywood really cares about them, we still find ourselves drawn to the spectacle like illiterates to a Rock of Love marathon. The nominations for the 81st Academy Awards will be announced this week, so we d ... More >>

Great Expectations

The old is great again at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston tonight

They Don’t Want to Hear Hattie Sing!

Hattie McDaniel haunts Houston in a staged musical reading at Express Theatre

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson

A documentary reveals the rise and fall of an influential writer

Tony Kushner

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright discusses his ability to portray the down-and-out

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

You’ll get gore and more with Martin McDonagh’s play

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 1

You’ll get gore and more with Martin McDonagh’s play

Film First Thursdays at Dean’s Credit Clothing

This free monthly event screens shorts from the Texas Filmmaker’s Showcase

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

This Dogg's Got Bite

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Twisted Toon

Cartoonist Bill Plympton talks about The Tune

Heavy, Man

The heart wants what the brain has to fight for in 21 Grams

Steel Strippin'

New setting, new songs, same hook

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Brutal Beauty

The wretched fight their way to redemption in the awesome Amores Perros

(Stay) Out of Africa

The cast can't transcend the overwrought script to this melodrama set in Kenya

My Fart Will Go On

The cast can't transcend the overwrought script to this melodrama set in Kenya

Cinematic Feet

Tango goes screen dancing