Alexander Payne

Golden Bozos: Your "Official" Live Blog For The 69th Golden Globes

I know, we're all bummed out the Texans lost. But since you've been drinking anyway, you might as well crack open another one and sit through the one awards show even the People's Choice Awards can look down its nose at. I'll be updating this entry throughout the broadcast, so refresh often and try ... More >>

The Film Issue

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

Prisoners of Sex: 10 Movie Womanizers, from the Sick to the Sublime

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, slated to open in Houston December 16, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot ... More >>

Reviews for the Easily Distracted:
The Descendants

Title: The Descendants Doesn't George Clooney Have An Oscar Already? Nominated five times, won once (Best Supporting Actor for Syriana). Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Four Kilauea volcanoes out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: A Hawaiian land baron must come to grips with the f ... More >>

Fantasy Island

Alexander Payne's Hawaiian excursion might be the feel-good movie of the year. Uh oh.

Failure Breeds Success

Alexander Payne's pessimism is good for business.

Destination Unknown

Up in the Air steers clear of the predictable route, lands the emotion.

Destination Unknown

Meet the Parent

Father does not know best when father is De Niro in Everybody'sFine.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Two straight guys pretend to be gay and turn out to be humanists in Chuck & Larry

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Drift Wood

Evan Rachel Wood and James Woods get lost amid Pretty Persuasion

Run, Dick, Run

Sean Penn blames his problems on the president -- so what else is new?

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Sour Grapes

A bitter wine freak makes an adorable hero in Alexander Payne's Sideways

Weird Al

Pacino's accent and antics are confusing, rather than enlightening, in People I Know

Old News

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

The Year of Living Dangerously

Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

Schmidt Happens

Nicholson disappears into a wondrous movie about quiet desperation

Dyno Lite

Jurassic Park III has plenty of action, but it is saurly in need of a script

Beyond Teens

Savvy Election shows ageless appeal

Abortion for Grins