Bruce Willis

Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered

A Real American Miracle

Could a G.I. Joe movie actually almost be good?

G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s a Battle of Dumb Pleasures Versus Your Higher Brain Function

Old Habits Die Hard

Breaking new ground in incoherence and stupidity.

Die Hard, Die Alone

When John McClane lost his family, the movieslost much of John McClane

Back to the Good Stuff

Looper makes time travel thrilling again.

Moving Day: 5 Albums I Just Can't Quit

Reconsidering a lifetime of musical choices is a funny business. My first musical purchase? The Maxi Single for Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now). First proper album purchase? Amy Grant's 1991 classic, Heart In Motion. Before I lose any degree of credibility, let's move on. For the past m ... More >>

Action Movies Don't Have to Suck

A lament for lost carnage - and coherence.

Young love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

Pulp Fiction

Planet Terror

Idaho Man Forces Friend to Moonwalk at Gunpoint While High on Drugs

I have to admit that when I read this headline around 3 a.m. on Friday night, I couldn't stop laughing for a good 30 minutes. I may have even laughed myself to sleep. I may never feel that much joy for the rest of my life, and I wish that I could replay that hour of my life in perpetuity. Last wee ... More >>

The Ten Worst Movies of 2011...In Advance

Oh, don't act surprised.​2011 is barely out of the oven and I'm already filled with dread. Could it be the fact I've spent the entire year so far coughing up chunks of green lung tissue? That I've finally despaired of ever finding a writing gig that doesn't involve "Lady Gaga sex tape" Google ... More >>

Top Ten Houston Sports Stories in 2010 (Alternate Title: "Here Comes The Prozac")

Brian Cushing will bring a keg and Fear of Tumors to your party​Putting together a "Top 10 Sports Moments" list is not supposed to invoke these feelings of anger and depression. But then again, I live in Houston, so try as I might to make this a list that is uplifting and inspiring, I can't. ... More >>

Die Hard

Last Night: Gorillaz At Toyota Center

Photos by Jim Bricker​ Gorillaz Toyota Center October 19, 2010 For more photos from the show, see our slideshow here. Gorillaz may have overspent on their first-ever extended tour. True, the entire concept is that the group is officially made up of four cartoon characters, so there kind of ... More >>

Killer Instincts, Bad Knees

Helen Mirren will cut you in Red.

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day 2 (The Remakening)

Honestly, do you really care?​I write a lot about Hollywood's obsession with remakes because I'm a movie buff, first and foremost, and because as a "writer" it's easy to milk an announcement of the latest atrocity from Platinum Dunes for 750 indignant words regarding the creative demise of Hollywo ... More >>

Top 5 Booze Ads From The 80s

Earlier this week we looked at some of the most memorable fast food commercials from the 1980s. Now it's time to charge your flux capacitors for a trip back to see some of the best and most sexually perverse booze ads the 80's had to offer. 5. Bud Light: Spuds Mackenzie Who are the ad wizards that ... More >>

Kevin Smith

The director behind Clerks and Mallrats makes it big

Name That Cop Movie: Kevin Smith's latest is a cliche-filled comedy

Kevin Smith's latest is a cliché-filled movie-trivia comedy — so crazy it just might work!

Come On, Avatar: Do Your Aliens Really Have To Be Blue? It's Been Done

It's hard to escape the ad campaign for James Cameron's Avatar, much as you'd like to. We've seen the trailer in a theater -- even in a 3-D theater -- and we are...whelmed. Certainly not overwhelmed; not yet ready to declare ourselves completely underwhelmed. We're sure it comes off better as a ful ... More >>

Over the Hedge

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Fifth Element

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Houston Blows Up Real Good

Photo by foxtongueThe awesomely morbid folks at Carlos Labs have created a "Ground Zero" nightmare generator for every city on Earth. Using Java Script and some Google Map magic, anyone can pinpoint a location in the world, AND BLOW IT THE HELL UP. You can choose your own weapon of mass destruction ... More >>

Hancock Is A Superzero

The movie squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero

She & Him: Volume One

Die Hard

The 1988 action smash is so stupid it’s brilliant

Back in the Fight

At 52, Bruce Willis resurrects a die-hard character

Live Free or Die Hard

Even with the Mac kid at his side, John McClane is just...old

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

Love the Sin

Without Sin

It isn't the movie you may think it is, but Hostage will get your attention

Take a Hike

Gerry survives nicely on scant dialogue and ample images

SEAL Appeal

Antoine Fuqua and Bruce Willis lend nobility to brutes

Hairy Situation

Bandits holds out for a hero and gets two: Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton

Broken and Battered

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

Soul Survivor

Bruce Willis discovers his better self in M. Night Shyamalan's heroic comic book

Cry Hard

In a story almost too slick, Bruce Willis really gets in touch with his inner child

Irreconcilable As Ever

You know The Story of Us; he's fun, she's frigid

Senseless

Too many mysteries muddle what tries to be a feel-good horror movie

Rights Out

Freedoms and order are at odds in the provocative Siege

All Climax

Feeling is forgotten in hard-sell Armageddon

Mash and Trash

Howler

The Jackal is a dog of a movie

Star Lard

With The Fifth Element, Luc Besson swipes from science fiction past to create a slick, vacuous future

Slavic Surprise

Monkey Shines

Director Terry Gilliam travels through time to find a winner

Third Time, Semi-Lucky

The Sick and the Dead

In Color of Night, Bruce Willis bares less of his body than expected, but more of his soul