Clive Owen

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

NASA's Ongoing Pee-Drinking Problem

Once again, we learn via the Houston Chronicle, NASA is having trouble getting its astronauts to drink piss.It's apparently not because they think the idea is disgusting; it's because they can't get their pee-cleansing machine to work.The Urine Processor Assembly has been balky ever since it was ins ... More >>

Tony Gilroy's (heretofore unseen) Expert Light Touch in Duplicity

The Bourne Comedian

The International's Assets Are Troubled Indeed

Bail Out This Movie

Bourne Free

Matt Damon plays an assassin searching for his Identity in a film that doesn't dumb you to death

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Brave One, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Imitation of Life: Special Edition

Matt Damon plays an assassin searching for his Identity in a film that doesn't dumb you to death

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Cate camps it up for Queen Hard with a Vengeance

Shoot 'Em Up

Shoot 'Em Up proves that its star could have been a killer Bond

When He Was Small

Shoot 'Em Up proves that its star could have been a killer Bond

DVDs

Tomorrow's Misery Today

Don't Believe the Hype

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed

2006 Year In Review: Taking the Long View

Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot

It's a Crime

Spike Lee's Inside Man plots the heist of your moviegoing dollars

Stapp Infection

Sanctimonious hypocrites need love, too

Color Bind

What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal.

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Closer to Fine

Urban savages wage war over sex in Mike Nichols's dreadfully funny new film

I'll Sleep When I'm Bored

Mike Hodges follows up Croupier with a somnambulistic crime drama

King Artless

Bruckheimer's knights go for grit but lose the glory

Get a Clue

Robert Altman revives his rep with an old-fashioned murder mystery

Better in Pairs

Generally a letdown, the year in film offered some well-crafted works that are best viewed as double features

Y'all Musta Forgot Are Gonna Forget: Preemo's Concrete Dreams

Houston's history is dotted with albums that, fairly or un, have been swept aside. We'll examine them here. Have an album that you think nobody knows about but should? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​ Preemo is an enigmatic, velvet-voiced MC from Brownsville that now lives in Houston. He is both con ... More >>

Trust

Houston's history is dotted with albums that, fairly or un, have been swept aside. We'll examine them here. Have an album that you think nobody knows about but should? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. ​ Preemo is an enigmatic, velvet-voiced MC from Brownsville that now lives in Houston. He is both con ... More >>

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 >>

Five on Five: Fender vs. Gibson, Who Had the Better Players?

​For guitar players, it's an age old question: are you a Fender guy or a Gibson guy? Over the years since both companies became popular in rock music, many other guitar manufacturers have made inroads, but none have been able to surpass the power and tradition of these two giants in the guitar ... More >>