Alfred Hitchcock

Rear Window

Vertigo

10 Rappers As Movie Villains

​Cunning criminals, violent geniuses, charismatic characters. Villains give us chills and keep us on the edge of our seats. With more rappers now dabbling in acting, we decided to cast some of your favorite hip-hoppers as movie villains. Here are ten rappers and their evil alter-egos.

North by Northwest

​Cunning criminals, violent geniuses, charismatic characters. Villains give us chills and keep us on the edge of our seats. With more rappers now dabbling in acting, we decided to cast some of your favorite hip-hoppers as movie villains. Here are ten rappers and their evil alter-egos.

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day III (John Hughes Edition)

They wouldn't dare...​We've done this on Pop Rocks a few times already, not that it's made any difference. All those upcoming crimes against cinema -- from The Birds to Fright Night to Escape From New York -- are all due to be released in the next few years (Fright Night this summer). And ther ... More >>

Film Collage

Johan Grimonprez's stunning work screens at the Blaffer Museum.

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 >>

“Johan Grimonprez: It’s a Poor Sort of Memory That Only Works Backwards”

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 >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Hairspray, Ghost, Sleuth,

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 >>

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Talk about an odd couple - Doris Day and Alfred Hitchcock

Capsule Stage Reviews: Fear of Ducks, Panic

Talk about an odd couple - Doris Day and Alfred Hitchcock

Capsule Stage Reviews: The Complete History of America (Abridged), The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat, Panic

Talk about an odd couple - Doris Day and Alfred Hitchcock

Silly Alley

The 39 Steps turns a Hitchcock drama into hilarious farce.

Mark Bly Goes Behind The 39 Steps

Photo courtesy Alley Theatre/Photo by Jann Whaley​The Alley Theatre's senior dramaturg and director of new play development Mark Bly spoke with Hair Balls about the new production of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps opening today. We asked him about the story's various incarnations, themes and how ... More >>

Alfred Hitchcock's 39 Steps

Run, don't walk to this happy romp through Spyland

New On DVD: It's The End Of The World As We Know It, And John Cusack Feels Fine As He Cashes A Paycheck

​The only DVD released today that earned big bucks at the box office was the Sony Pictures apocalyptic thriller 2012. The year 2012 has long been predicted by various ancient cultures as the year the world will end (or at least end as we now know it). That idea's the basis for director Roland Emme ... More >>

Alley Theatre Plays Alfred Hitchcock For Laughs

​It's a mashup of Alfred Hitchcock and Monty Python, designed to scare the poop out of its audiences (or at least set them on the edge of their seats) while making them laugh.The Alley Theatre is bringing in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, a two-time Tony award-winning show offering a cast of ... More >>

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock titillates the voyeur in all of us

Strike a Pose

Tom Ford's A Single Man: It's better to look good than to be good.

In Honor Of The Bugatti Incident: The Five Best Incidents Of When Birds Attack

Today's story on a pelican causing a $2 million sports car to wind up in a lagoon is, of course, distressing. And not just if you're the owner of that $2 million car.Birds -- you gotta watch out for them. You just never know when they're going to strike.The lagoon incident can now proudly take its p ... More >>

Susan Kandel: Dial H for Hitchcock

What would Alfred do?

Jason and the Argonauts

Ray Harryhausen's special-effects groundbreaker had a little T&A mixed in between the fight scenes

Alley Theater To Produce Yet Another Frank Wildhorn Musical; Stunned World Asks "Why?"

The Alley Theater has announced its 2009-10 season; it includes productions of recent Broadway comedies Boeing, Boeing and Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, which should be fun.But the announcement also contains much more ominous news, consisting of just five words: Yet. Another. Frank. Wildhorn. Mus ... More >>

Summer of Salvation

The Terminator is back. Plus lots of other movies we can't wait to see this season.

The Triplets of Belleville

Web exclusive!

The pAper chAse

Grammy-nominated music producer fronts sinister Dallas rock quartet

The Mystery of Irma Vep

The Texas Repertory Theater vamps it up for Halloween

The Lady Vanishes

Hitchcock hits the rails in his 1938 release

Silver Screams Film Festival

Get your frightful fill of horror flicks

Radio Houstoned: Silver Screams Film Festival

Get your frightful fill of horror flicks

From the Stacks: DJ Shorty's Faves

Get your frightful fill of horror flicks

Hitchcock on Holiday

Get your frightful fill of horror flicks

Disturbia

With Hitchcock in its rear window, bland voyeur thriller does its best not to perturb(ia)

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Rot

Mildred's Umbrella and Bobbindoctrin deliver a bitter, deliciously dark production

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 8

Mildred's Umbrella and Bobbindoctrin deliver a bitter, deliciously dark production

Capsule Reviews

ENCORE

"Imperfect" Is Right

Boring game play mars Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

Another Look at a Legend

Boring game play mars Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

Flight Risk

Wes Craven takes a cue from Hitchcock aboard the Red Eye

Problems at Home

Brad and Angelina are out to kill each other. You may want a piece of them, too.

Village Voices

Irving Penn's iconic, never-before-seen photos of Africa make an exclusive stop at the MFAH

Half and Half

Watch as a couple calls it quits

Blood Simple

Murder by Numbers yields less than the sum of its parts

French Twists

All work and no play makes Michel a dull, repressed, homicidal boy in this Gallic thriller

Broken and Battered

How the twist ending left M. Night Shyamalan twisting in the breeze

Life and Death

How the twist ending left M. Night Shyamalan twisting in the breeze

Son of Psycho

Van Sant pumps fresh blood into his tribute to the classic

Murder to Watch

Van Sant pumps fresh blood into his tribute to the classic

Moving History

Van Sant pumps fresh blood into his tribute to the classic