Clint Eastwood

Dear Obama, I Don't Really Want to Have Dinner With Beyonce. How About These 5 Celebs?

A while back I made a vow that rather than getting upset and arguing over radical rightwing posts on Facebook, I would instead donate $5 to the Obama campaign. It's a lot more proactive, and cuts down on the number of bullshit screamfests that have probably cut years off my lifespan. There was a sid ... More >>

Trouble With Eastwood

Actor's return is a decidedly slow-pitch affair.

Thus Endeth The Republican Convention: The Best Of Our Miami Sister Paper's Coverage

Florida has survived the 2012 Republican National Convention, which perhaps should not surprise too many people because Florida has always shown a knack for surviving whatever gets thrown at it. Even if it's Clint Eastwood arguing with a chair. The RNC was in Tampa, but our sister paper Miami New ... More >>

Super Bowl Ads: Bud Skews Decrepit, Clint Endorses Obama -- 5 Things We Learned

Another Super Bowl, another series of high-priced, high-stakes TV ads. What did we learn? These five things: 5. Budweiser has a hard-on for Prohibiition Because your target demographic is, we guess, is prople who remember fondly when beer was made legal again in 1933. 4. Never ever believe a baby ... More >>

The Film Issue: 10+

Prisoners of Sex: 10 Movie Womanizers, from the Sick to the Sublime

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, slated to open in Houston December 16, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot ... More >>

Great Man Theories

Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century in J. Edgar.

Top Five Clint Eastwood Soundtracks

pasoroblesfilmfestival.comDr. John, Clint Eastwood and producer/director Bruce Ricker in a publicity photo for "Piano Blues," Eastwood's installment of PBS' 2003 series The Blues.​Today the one and only Clint Eastwood turns 81 years old, and he can still kick your ass. According to the Interne ... More >>

Out Today: Other Things Besides Born This Way... Seriously

​This past weekend was magical, what with Rocks Off finally getting to see Foo Fighters play songs from Wasting Light and all. You may remember that we have been wanking over Light since it came out in April, but it's really good. Best rock album of the year? Maybe, unless Jack White or Josh H ... More >>

Pop Rocks: "Getting Too Old For This Shit" - A Cinematic History

The first?​Time marches on. There comes a point in all of our lives when the inevitability of our eventual demise goes from esoteric concept to concrete fact. There's no set schedule for when awareness will strike; maybe it's the first time your back gives out, or when you find yourself squint ... More >>

Yojimbo

Death by Eastwood

Saint Clint chokes the life out of Hereafter.

Today's DVDs: The Thrill Of Victory, The Agony Of Valentine's Day

Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Who else was Clint gonna call?​Director Clint Eastwood, actors Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. That powerhouse trio could have chosen to tell just about any story they wanted and made it into an Academy Award worthy film. They chose Invictus, the real-life story o ... More >>

David Dow, Of UH And Death Row, Gets Some Book-Selling Help From The New York Times

​For years, UH professor David Dow has been Houston's most famous advocate against the death penalty. He's the go-to guy for quotes, and the mere mention of his name tends to rile up those who support lethal injunction (and any other method the government uses for killing convicts).He's written a ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Golden Bozos

You know awards season is in full swing when all the celebrities converge upon the Beverly Hilton to get drunk and act like receiving an award from the same organization that once honored Pia Zadora is something to be proud of.That's right, it was Golden Globes night last Sunday. And while the just ... More >>

An Orangutan Predicts Longhorn Victory Tonight, But Can Such Animals Be Trusted?

Everyone knows orangutans like to wear people clothes or tool around with Clint Eastwood, but they're also famed football oddsmakers. To wit: Bruno, an o-tan at the Los Angeles Zoo, has predicted UT will beat Alabama tonight. In what might be interpreted as a not-so-subtle allusion to the sport's la ... More >>

Year in Film: Director of the Decade

Clint Eastwood talks straight about his prolific career.

Forgiven in Gran Torino

Clint Eastwood finds salvation

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

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

Go Ahead, Make Her Day

Very Minor: Miracle at St. Anna

No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Cannes Class of 2008

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Grace Is Gone

A Marine mom dies in Iraq

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

Why, Cruel World, Why?

Behind Enemy Lines

Letters sees WWII from Japanese POV, as Eastwood continues to chip away at the hero myth

Hall of Famer

Clint Eastwood is not done yet

Print the Legend

Clint Eastwood strips away the myths surrounding the Greatest Generation

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Veteran Chinese director takes a sentimental journey

Love the Glove

See Delilah Montoya’s million-dollar babies

Senior Moment

Jan Decleir shines as a senile hit man in The Memory of a Killer

A Few Dollars Left

Eastwood's latest Baby proves he's still a money player

Best Video Store

Italian Jobs

The MFAH captures a new renaissance of cinema

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

Rage Against the Past

Eastwood takes a guilt trip down the mighty Mystic River

Year of the Woman

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

Heart to Heart

Eastwood plays a detective with a bad ticker looking for the man who murdered his donor

The (Balding) Eagle Has Landed

Clint Eastwood's charming Space Cowboys tosses youth demographics out the cargo bay

Weary of the Wows

A Houston junket and the jaded of Hollywood

Diving To The Bottom Of The Media Barrel Each Week

A Reporter's Manifesto

Denatured Dixie

Power Outage

Eastwood crawls over the hill and into the sunset

The Year in Film

Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)

Sound Check

Flings, First and Final

Two new romances approach doomed passion, as seen at different ages and stages

That's a Wrap

And the year ends with a surprise twist: fall movies that are falling flat