Clint Eastwood

I Don't Know How She Did It

Margaret Thatcher as victimized woman in The Iron Lady.

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

Sundance Cinemas Houston Opens Today

In a speech at last night's private grand opening party for downtown's new Sundance Cinemas, Mayor Annise Parker expressed sentiments echoed by many Houstonians, saying, "When the [Angelika Theater] closed its doors, it was like a light went off downtown." The Mayor felt the Angelika's sudden and ... More >>

Get Lit: Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson by Kevin Avery

Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson by Kevin Avery 584 pp., $29.99, Fantagraphics Books ​It was a scene like out of the hardboiled detective novels that Paul Nelson loved so much when police broke into his New York apartment in 2006. What they found was a dark ... More >>

Your 2011 Fall/Winter Movie Preview - Part 2

​You know the drill: the fall movie season starts today, my pretties (my review of Contagion will be up soon...there's a reason it didn't make the preview). Yesterday we covered the first half of 2011's most anticipated upcoming releases, determined through a rigorous scientific analysis consi ... More >>

25 Essential Eponymous Albums

​Eponymous: (of a literary work, film, etc) named after its central character or creator: The Stooges' eponymous debut album. On this day in 1983, a young woman from Michigan who had recently given up on a career as a hard-rock singer released her first album of electronic dance-pop, an album ... More >>

Jerry Eversole's Trial: The Winners and Losers

The youthful Eversole, before the feds started pestering him.​Jerry Eversole surprised a lot of people when he escaped conviction on bribery charges. A hung jury ended in a mistrial, but prosecutors expect to take another swing at it soon. In the meantime, everyone is poking through the wrec ... More >>

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 >>

A Behanding in Spokane

Alley brings on the gore.

Green Zone: Win A Free DVD, And Learn Why Matt Damon Is The Best Of The Ocean's 11 Actors

Thank God Brad Pitt didn't star in this​Green Zone, by shaky-cam master Paul Greengrass, is the latest movie to try to buck the trend of box-office poison that is the Iraq War.Many have tried, but even the most celebrated of the Iraq War flicks, The Hurt Locker, wasn't a blockbuster. (Maybe ... More >>

Astro Memories, Part Two: Author/ Supermodel Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top

Photos by Bob Merlis​As we mentioned earlier, today's issue -- our annual look at Astros' Opening Day -- takes what Sarah Palin would no doubt call a "hopey-changey" approach to the 2010 season.Not for us to wallow in despair; instead we asked prominent Houstonians for their favorite Astro memorie ... More >>

Twilight Saga: New Moon: Mopery Abounds

​This review by Village Voice Media's Ella Taylor came in too late for our print edition, but we don't want you making any fang-film decisions with insufficient knowledge. So here it is:Moping at the MoonToo much angst, not enough saga in the wholesome Twilight 2By Ella TaylorBella: I'm coming.Ed ... More >>

Oh, Canada

Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak

Apolitical Theater in Stop-Loss

Iraq war movie does its best not to mention the war

Visual Overload at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

"Design Life Now" showcases some interesting items — if you have the patience to find them

Capsule Art Reviews: "Michael Bise: Birthday," "Monster Show 2," "Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper," "Pompeo Batoni," "Rackstraw Downes" and "Tom of Finland"

"Design Life Now" showcases some interesting items — if you have the patience to find them

Here, Baby, Here

Playing down-on-her-luck, Amy Ryan's star rises.

In the Valley of Elah

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

Top DVDs

Our picks for the week of May 3

Killer Instinct

David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off

Way Out of Sync

David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off

Hard Ride

Stuck with Bruce Willis in rush-hour traffic? You could always walk

Jesse Dayton

Banjo & Sullivan -- The Ultimate Collection 1972-1978

Johnny's Show

Depp saves the day in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Into the Sunset

The beautifully done Open Range still has to graze on the western's leftovers

David Gray

Sunday, August 3

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies requires a brain cell or two?

Dreaming of Bigger Things

One woman's quest for breasts

Bridges II the Bend

Two tiny publishers from Houston land the sequel to Madison County

Dead Last

Redford and Lurie wave the flag but fail to earn their stripes.

A River Ran Through It

A historic Hill Country road brought Texans to the Blanco. Then came John O'Quinn.

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

The Great EscApe

In two decades, Wally Swett's sanctuary has become a place of peace for primates - it's the humans that have him going bananas

Cranky Customers

Misbehaving diners

Dream On

Filmmakers responsible for the gimmicky Passion of Mind should have slept on the concept a little longer

Mission 2: Successful

With a head full of Notorious thoughts, director John Woo leads the charge in the visceral M:I-2

A Dog's Life

A former Houston Post writer recalls how she pawed her way

to the top in Hollywood

The Steve McQueen Affair

The "Steve McQueen: The King of Cool" film retrospective

Terminate This

Returning to the apocalyptic theme of T2, End of Days doesn't stand a chance in hell

Megascreen Cinemas March In

Big complexes threaten end to neighborhood era

Lame Horse

They shoot bad films, don't they?

Letters

They shoot bad films, don't they?

The Games Men Play

Shelton and Costner team up again for more sporting success

Big Bang Theory

The Rock tests the hypothesis that moviegoers like 'em fast, splashy and loud

Wordless Wonders

Death Valley does its talking through its playing

Vile and Viral

Death Valley does its talking through its playing

Dead Bang

Gonzo Western The Quick and the Dead is ludicrously entertaining

End Games

Director Boaz Yakin gives a Fresh twist to tales of the drug trade

On the Fast Track

Speed proves there's still life in the old car chase

Violence, TV and Demagoguery

Congressional attempts to ax TV violence may put the First Amendment under the gun