Cannes Film Festival

The Film Issue: Team Margaret

Drive: No Talk, All Action

Ryan Gosling at the wheel in this glossy, retro, heist-gone-bad.

Your 2011 Fall/Movie Preview (Part 1)

​Note: Pop Rocks will return next week. Labor Day has come and gone, which means the official start of the fall movie season is just around the corner. In fact, two of the more anticipated releases of latter 2011 -- Warrior and Contagion -- come out tomorrow. After what has been widely rega ... More >>

Another Year

2010 is old news. Here are ten to watch out for in 2011.

Blake Newman Wants To Know: Can You Play A Meyerland Stripper With A Heart Of Gold?

A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk​If there's one thing everyone knows about strippers, it's that they have the ability to change people's lives. And that magic is the basis for the indie film Meyerland, whose creators have been scouring Houston to find a young actress to p ... More >>

Pop Rocks: It's All Michael Bay's Fault

​Most of my life has been spent seeking out a unifying theory of suckitude in the entertainment universe, "entertainment" in this sense meaning movies, music, and television. Originally, I'd hoped to find someone whose utter horribleness spanned the entire artistic firmament (including literat ... More >>

Sakay

I hereby declare myself President

Summer of Salvation

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

Boxing, Sex and Madness

Mike Tyson's many personalities are on display in James Toback's new documentary.

Che Is A One-Ton Guerrilla

Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films in one four-hour sitting

Review: XXY, Encarnacion, Santiago and Silent Light at the Latin Wave Film Festival

Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films in one four-hour sitting

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel sees only treacle in the story that inspired his Diving Bell

Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

Julian Schnabel sees only treacle in the story that inspired his Diving Bell

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

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

Norah Jones

Norah Jones becomes her own person

Oh, Baby Baby

There's a lot of money to be made in adoptions. Jennalee Ryan moved to Texas to continue doing that.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Year-in-the-life of the IRA speaks volumes about our current fog of war

On the Road Again

Jim Jarmusch offers up another quest story for hipsters, and they'll be pleased

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Jim Jarmusch offers up another quest story for hipsters, and they'll be pleased

The Kids Aren't Alright

Nobody Knows painstakingly reveals the horror of child neglect

A Closed System

Matthew Ritchie puts the finishing touches on a complete cosmology

Blue Bayou

Rice Media Center honors activist and filmmaker James Blue

The Prince

At long last, the Godfather's son makes his first film, and it was not easy

Kane Mutiny

The industry's initial reaction to Welles's masterwork should serve as a lesson to WorldFest filmmakers

From the Mouths of Babes...

Horses focuses on the children whose actions speak volumes about the persecuted Kurds

Fringe Radical Cineasts

Rallying all film rebels, John Waters's Cecil B. Demented cries, "Fassbinder or die!"

Reel Worlds

Houston mines international gold with the Pan-Cultural Film Festival

Absolutely for Sale

Dear jaded consumer: These two Houston artists are now competing for your attention. They sell ads, they're making a vodka billboard, and their client list includes Budweiser and Target. They call it art, but what advertisers want to know is, will it work

Brothers in Chains

The Russian Prisoner has an air of bittersweet timelessness

Life, and How We Live it

In Secrets and Lies, Mike Leigh creates fiction with the feel of fact