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    May 24, 2012

    2012 Summer Guide

    A new minor league baseball team, a new amusement park, the urban wilderness of Buffalo Bayou, food, concerts and plays — Houston, prepare to get your summer on.

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Star Wars Day: Recasting The Movie With '70s Rock Stars

    Today is Star Wars Day, or "May the 4th be with you." Something less than a national holiday but more than a horrific pun, it's evidence that we still very much live in a Star Wars world 35 years after the movie was released, as well as that once the Internet gets ahold of an idea, the rest of us mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Science Fixins': A Dream Meal Made of Fictional Foods

    What's the greatest science fiction film of all time? If you didn't just go, "Oh, Blade Runner," I want you now to imagine me shooting you the bird as I walk away. As I was re-watching it for the ump-teenth time the other afternoon, I couldn't help but get hungry when Deckard was eating at the noo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Pop Rocks: In Which I Conclusively Prove Lisbeth Salander's Cultural Supremacy

    ​David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's gazillion-selling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo opens today. I'll have a review up tomorrow, which will likely have no effect on the reportedly large numbers of women planning to avoid the film entirely. Says another marketing exec, "Hyper-realisti ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    "Star Warsâ„¢: Where Science Meets Imagination"

    ​David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's gazillion-selling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo opens today. I'll have a review up tomorrow, which will likely have no effect on the reportedly large numbers of women planning to avoid the film entirely. Says another marketing exec, "Hyper-realisti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    For Anthony Weiner, Eight Awkward Dongs From The Movies (NSFW)

    Did not make the cut.​In my review of The Hangover Part II, I made a comment about the seeming preponderance of male genitalia on the big screen lately. The phenomenon has been limited primarily to comedies because, let's face it, penises are pretty damn funny looking. Judging by that screeni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    The Best and Worst Christmas Specials of All Time

    Every winter brings the onslaught of family tension, shopping, and that most American of pastimes, the Christmas special. They're typically half an hour, though they can be longer, and they often take characters from an already-established world and run them through the gauntlet of festivities surro ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 25, 2009

    Mexicans in the Movies

    Every winter brings the onslaught of family tension, shopping, and that most American of pastimes, the Christmas special. They're typically half an hour, though they can be longer, and they often take characters from an already-established world and run them through the gauntlet of festivities surro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2008

    Cue Chewbacca: Instant Replay in Baseball Begins Tomorrow (or Maybe the Next Day)

    Every winter brings the onslaught of family tension, shopping, and that most American of pastimes, the Christmas special. They're typically half an hour, though they can be longer, and they often take characters from an already-established world and run them through the gauntlet of festivities surro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2008

    HPMA Aftermath: Small Sounds, Yoko Mono, Katie Stuckey and the Swagger, Espantapajaros, Buxton, Los Skarnales and Thee Armada

    Every winter brings the onslaught of family tension, shopping, and that most American of pastimes, the Christmas special. They're typically half an hour, though they can be longer, and they often take characters from an already-established world and run them through the gauntlet of festivities surro ... More >>

  • Film

    July 24, 2008

    Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

    Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2008

    Steroids and Roger Clemens and, um, a Wookie

    Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that

  • Music

    June 28, 2007

    R. Kelly's Artistic Process

    A look inside his musical mind

  • News

    December 1, 2005

    Basquiat, Beats and Beans

    "Beats of Basquiat"

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2005

    Dang, You've Got Skills!

    Show 'em off at a midnight screening of Napoleon Dynamite

  • Culture

    May 26, 2005

    Excess Hollywood

    In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

  • Film

    May 19, 2005

    On the Dark Side

    Why Episode III isn't the movie it should have been

  • Culture

    July 24, 2003

    Body Art

    Drawing portraits and figures may be becoming fashionable again

  • Film

    April 17, 2003

    The French Conniption

    Nick Nolte pulls off a twitchy Gallic heist

  • Film

    May 20, 1999

    Episode I: What Did You Expect?

    It's Star Wars, all right

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Geek Force

    The Star Wars saga builds its power on the Internet with the help of Houston-based Webmeisters

  • Film

    February 20, 1997

    Life and Darth

    The Star Wars saga builds its power on the Internet with the help of Houston-based Webmeisters

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