Charlize Theron

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

The Road Goes On Forever, But Top Chef: Texas Definitely Does End

​Here it is: the finale. It feels like it's been a longer time than it really has. Is that just me? But instead of drawing out the entire season in a long recap, as I thought the show would, we're instead plunged straight into the action. The elimination challenge: cook a four-course meal and cre ... More >>

Top Chef: Texas Is Now Set in Canada, Because Why Not

​This week's episode of Top Chef: Texas has left Texas entirely, never to return (at least for this season). It has, instead, gone to almost literally the polar opposite of Texas: British Columbia, Canada. On Top Chef: Texas. Which was funded with $400,000 of our tax dollars (much more if you coun ... More >>

Top Chef: Texas and an Impromptu Tour of the Houston Press Offices

Our TV viewing area!​I arrived home yesterday evening to find that my cable had gone out. To be fair, it could have been out for days. I have no idea. Such are the perils of owning a Roku box and living off Hulu and Netflix instead of basic cable. Either way, I had no means of watching Top Chef th ... More >>

Pee-Wee Herman Plays His Eternal Role on Top Chef: Texas

​What you see above is one of the Healthy Choice Top Chef-branded entrees they keep hawking on this damned show. I bought two on an impulse tonight while shopping* at Target (*shopping = wandering the aisles vacantly and fondling various throw pillows and lamps instead of buying the 25-foot coaxia ... More >>

Chutzpah and Cat Cora on Top Chef: Texas

​I still don't have DVR, but I do now have a refurbed Roku box from Woot, which is nice. I mention this because any single episode of Battlestar Galactica that you can stream from Netflix is a million times better -- no hyperbole here, I really mean a million times better -- than any single episod ... More >>

Charlize Theron and Her Crappy Movie Take Top Chef: Texas Even Further Off the Rails

​Charlize Theron is an actress from South Africa who lives in Los Angeles and is currently filming a shitty-looking Kristen Stewart movie set in England, so naturally she's the best choice for this week's episode of Top Chef: Texas. This show continues to make less and less sense the more it wears ... More >>

The Much-Feared Restaurant Wars Hit Top Chef: Texas

​Now that Work of Art is over, I've had to find another reality show to haphazardly catch before tuning into Bravo on Wednesday nights. That show is Restaurant Impossible, and it's weirdly addictive. I've even found myself seeking it out on purpose, which is something I never do with Food Network ... More >>

Fast Times: KFC Mashed Potato Bowl

I am currently obsessed with comedian Patton Oswalt, and I'm dying to see the movie Young Adult with Charlize Theron, just because he is in it. I have been watching a lot of clips of Oswalt's comedy on YouTube and I recently stumbled upon his KFC Famous Mashed Potato Bowl rant. It is short, but funn ... More >>

Pop Rocks: 10 Things Comic Con 2011 Taught Us

Steven Spielberg presents...​The 2011 Comic Con wrapped up last weekend. Over 120,000 of the geeky, nerdy, attention starved, and Twilight-headed descended upon sunny San Diego last weekend for what has become the entertainment industry's premiere showcase for anything related to comics, video ... More >>

Five Spot: In Which We Needlessly Prolong Our "Feud" With the GRIT Boys... and Post 5 New MP3s

Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap. It's five videos and occasional cussing. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. ​Count the GRIT Boys, a trio of Houston rappers who've been bubbling around ... More >>

Middle-of-the-Road

Neither horrific nor disasterrrific, Cormac McCarthy adap takes the path of least resistance.

Hard-Knock Life in Frozen River

This movie may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom

Hancock Is A Superzero

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

The College Football Preview, Week Eight: More Babes. And More Babes.

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

The College Football Preview, Week Seven: Babes. Lots and Lots of Babes.

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

In the Valley of Elah

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

We've Got a Man-crush on Hunter Pence

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

The Short Goodbye

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

To Each Theron

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Cat Scratch Fever

The Pussycat Dolls

Goapele

Change It All

Getting Personal

Nouveau punk rockeros need love, too

Heavenly Hag

Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee becomes a thing of beauty

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie

Crüe Cuts

On the phone with the Mötley bunch

Gag Order

A woman chugs drugs to save her family in Maria Full of Grace

Rage Against the Macho

Patty Jenkins and Charlize Theron give birth to a Monster

Safe, Cracked

The Italian Job, a remake better than the original, is a steal

Lance in Space

Coming soon to a TV near you: hardbodies in zero-G

Cruel Summer

Looking for fun? Crush will leave you blue.

As Good As He Gets

Jade Scorpion showcases Woody Allen at his satirical best

Adjust the Contrast

Director can't juggle the contradictory tones of his ultraviolent action flick 15 Minutes

Damning with Faint Praise

Keanu Reeves, the low-wattage movie star, somehow makes Sweet November easier to watch

Honor Roles

De Niro and Gooding use an uplifting film to dive for Oscars

A Snooze Runs Through It

Redford's Bagger Vance substitutes pretty for powerful

Familiar Turf

The Yards authoritatively walks in the footsteps of some famous filmmakers

Good Trouble

John Frankenheimer influences a new generation of thrill seekers with Reindeer Games

News Hostage

End of the Road

Rotation

Master P

My Life as an Orphan

Lasse Hallström deftly juggles contradictions in the coming-of-age story The Cider House Rules

Into the Line of Fire

Swede Lasse Hallström steps into America's abortion controversy with The Cider House Rules

Admirable Ape

Go bananas. Joe Young returns, better than ever.