Angelina Jolie

Angelina's War Movie

Hollywood goes to Bosnia in The Land of Blood and Honey.

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 >>

Lauren McAdams: Going Up

Wine of the Week: 2008 Sawbuck Malbec

​Oh, sweet nectar of the gods: Malbec. That once-forgotten varietal, making a comeback as a cheap red wine, with plenty of depth, that happens to be a pretty good deal in most cases, is the total package - the Angelina Jolie of the wine world, perhaps - minus all those adopted kids and the wei ... More >>

Photobombs Through the Ages

The pinnacle of modern-day photobombing​Photobombing might have reached its peak at the Golden Globes when Michael Douglas PB'd his way into a picture with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angelina Jolie. The phenomenon has become popular on the internet, of course, and as with everything el ... More >>

The First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine

Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy the otherwise rote Salt.

Top 10 Celebrity Music-Video Cameos

​Ratt, "Round and Round" Thursday night, Ratt hits up Warehouse Live with what passes for their original line-up. At their peak, the band was a gritty and decadent alternative to bands like Poison, skewing closer to Motley Crue in terms of excess and drug abuse. ​The band managed to ... More >>

The Shameless Chef: Make Your Own Damn Salsa

What the holy hell, is that a fresh vegetable? Who am I and what have I done with the Shameless Chef?​I gotta be honest with you, the column almost didn't happen today. I think I came down with something, because I slept about 20 hours yesterday. No lie, I passed out around 5:30 p.m., woke up ... More >>

Salt Preview Passes, And A Complete List Of The Good Angelina Jolie Movies of The Decade

Showing her range​Salt is a highly anticipated film, starring Angelina Jolie as a female Bourne. Lots of action, lots of acting by Jolie's lips.Who wouldn't want to see it?Well, possibly anyone who's gone to an Angelina Jolie in the past ten years.Among her films in the past decade:

Angelina Jole & Salt: Win Free Preview Passes, And Learn Five Less Frenetic (And We're Guessing Better) Spy Movies

Angelina Jolie's big picture -- is she in the "needs a hit" category yet? -- opens this month, and is generally being described as "a female Bourne" or terms like that.Which means plenty of frantic cutting, shaky camera work, pulsing music, CGI explosions and -- well, you know the list of ingredient ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Believe It Or Not, There Are Worse Ideas Than Kim Kardashian As Lara Croft

I can't wait to hear her English accent.​It's been a rough week: we found out the BP oil spill may spread across the Atlantic Ocean and threaten England's blessed shores (which, let's admit it, would be pretty hilarious) and dealt with the campaign in Afghanistan supplanting Vietnam as America ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Quick Hits

​We're going to mix it up a bit on Pop Rocks today. Usually, I stick with one subject for the entire piece because I'd rather not depend too heavily on snarky line-item entries. But let's face it; sometimes there's just too much going on in the world of pop culture for me to focus on just one top ... More >>

Hot Sauces That Will Make You Cry Like A Baby, Part II

​A few months ago, Eating Our Words featured the "Top 5 Hot Sauces That Will Make You Cry Like a Baby." We received so much feedback on other hot sauces to try that we decided it was time for another round of hot sauce punishment. Forget making you cry like a baby, these hot sauces will make y ... More >>

The Five Real Reasons Spider-Man 4 Won't Happen

​I imagine most of you are aware of the sad news by now, but just in case you hadn't heard, Spider-Man 4 isn't happening: A few days after script issues pushed it off the May 2011 calendar, Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today that Spider-Man 4 ain't gonna happen at all, and that ... More >>

Pop Rocks: New Blood For Hollywood. Please

​I used to review movies (over here, if you care), an endeavor I had to quit for a variety of reasons: my hectic neurosurgery rotation, for one, as well as the increasing physical demands of the new Mrs. Vonder Haar, Carla Gugino. But among the non-imaginary factors influencing my decision was the ... More >>

Halloween Countdown Part 1: The Seven Most Cliched Costumes

Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. It seems that every year Halloween becomes less and less about scaring othe ... More >>

He Said She Said: Ten Artists We Would Go Gay For

​It always happens: you and your friends toss back a few beers and the talk turns to what celebrities and models you find attractive. At first it starts out innocent enough, arguing the merits of Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Marissa Miller or Paula Deen. Well that last name is actually just our ... More >>

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Five Worst Hangovers In The Movies

The holidays are upon us, and whether you're dealing with 8-hour layovers at O'Hare or sleeping on your aunt's rollout bed with the bar that lays right across your sacroiliac joint or "entertaining" your brother and his brood of monstrous offspring, chances are you're going to drink. A lot. To help ... More >>

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Changeling

Go Ahead, Make Her Day

Book Review: Doomed Queens

Houstonians Think They're Great, Unlike All Those Other Houstonians

So Angelina Jolie Had Her Babies

Violence Is Golden in Wanted

With its secret boys club and bloody good fun, this one has all of the fight with none of the guilt

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

Seven Deadly Sins: Celebrity Edition

Justice League: The New Frontier, The Darjeeling Limited, Death at a Funeral, Beowulf: Director's Cut

Radio Houstoned: African Children’s Choir on a Journey of Hope

African Children’s Choir

Houston’s the latest stop for the Journey of Hope tour

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

The Rosebuds

Let Me Wash That for You, Honey

A Mighty Heart

Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearl's movie

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Vince Charming

Vaughn ensures an amicable Break-Up

They're in Tune

Walk It Out

Getting Personal

Nouveau punk rockeros need love, too

Home Wreckers on DVD

Problems at Home

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

Blarney Rubble

Intermission kicks through the debris of modern Ireland

Connect the Dots

Laura Lark takes a jab at women's magazines

Year of the Woman

The big-screen dames of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Kicking Lasses

The Powerpuff Girls spank monkey butt

Practicing Judyism

Funny Gay Men

Singin' in the Rave

BT tries to do the unutterable: Be a DJ who vocalizes

Schizo

Girl, Interrupted can't distinguish between crazy and normal adolescent turmoil

Control Freaks

Quality acting overcomes a thin plot in Pushing Tin

Heart Failure

Carroll's impressive cast can't overcome this thin film

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