Documentaries

Beyonce Stoops to Conquer Toyota Center July 15

Hot off the heels of her electrifying Super Bowl halftime performance, which some believe had something to do with the mysterious blackout at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome shortly into the game's third quarter, Beyonce announced after the game that she will hit the road later this year for her first w ... More >>

Creeperfest

The 20 Best YouTube Rock Docs You Can Watch Free (For Now)

**The 31 Best Music Documentaries of All Time So you don't have NetFlix, you hate the video stores (if you can even find one), you don't like going to the little red box next to the liquor store, but you do have an Internet connection, plenty of time on your hands, and an insatiable thirst for rock ... More >>

A Few Suggestions For Houston Sports Moments and Personalities To Be Memorialized

The greatest player in the history of the Houston Oilers is, without a doubt, Earl Campbell. And Ross Greenburg, the former head of HBO Sports, is producing a documentary on the life and career of Campbell that will air later this year on the NBC Sports Network. And last month the MLB Network did a ... More >>

Our Image Film & Arts Festival

WorldFest Houston: International Film and Video Festival

New Doc The Art Of Rap Spills Hip-Hop's Secrets

Rap wasn't always like Lil Jon's yelling his famous "What!?" and "Okay!", or repeating your name over and over throughout the song like Houston's own Lil Flip. Nowadays most see rap as lyrics telling a woman how to position herself or look for a man, rhymes about money and talk of toking up. But th ... More >>

A Taste of Reality: Top 5 Food Documentaries

Tommy Lee Jones once didn't do a film because there was a scene in which he was supposed to eat on camera. Tommy Lee Jones doesn't eat on camera. Ever. That film was Man of the House, and it's a good thing that the producers caved to his demands, for the world would be a far, far worse place if ... More >>

Morgan Spurlock's Mansome

A trivial investigation of gender.

The Case of Joe Campos Torres

Musical Evening with Maestro Graf (Dedicated to Dmitry Shostakovich)

Last Night: Anvil at Warehouse Live

Most rock bands don't last 34 days, let alone 34 years. But that's exactly how long Canadian heavy metal trio Anvil has spent recording and touring -- mostly in complete obscurity. Despite ample opportunity, Anvil refused to quit, and in 2008, filmmaker (and former Anvil roadie) Sacha Gervasi shon ... More >>

The 10 Most Popular Rocks Off Posts of 2011

Photo by Marc BrubakerKe$ha, Slutwave queen.​Each December we take a moment to reflect back on the writing of the year, looking at those posts that seem to most fervently stir the hearts and imaginations of our readers. This year, you guys were really, really into films, soundtracks and music ... More >>

The Prep School Negro

Malayaka House

Herb & Dorothy

Ten Movies You Won't Get Into at Sundance

​The Sundance Film Festival kicks off this week in Park City, Utah. The venerable fest enters its 33rd year with many once again questioning the organizers' commitment to independent film. Recent incarnations have debuted underground fare from art houses like Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures ... More >>

Waste Land

The 31 Best Music Documentaries Of All Time

​Hands down, above all of these following music documentaries, Craig's Hlist's two favorite of all-time are The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years, and The Beatles Anthology. We can watch both on repeat for days and not complain. That will probably all change once we see ... More >>

The Best of the Fest! Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2010

Remedial Ed

Davis Guggenheim ignores too many inconvenient truths in Waiting for "Superman."

Cardi's Documentary Revisits Houston's '80s Metal Mecca

​In the early '80s, Cardi's was the place in Houston for the rising world of metal to play. The club on Westheimer and Fountainview, which has since become Spotlight Karaoke, hosted Metallica, Dokken and a plethora of other iconic names before it was shut down with no notice in 1985. A man na ... More >>

Buena Vista Social Club

The film that jump-started a return to the limelight by Rubén Gonzáles and Compay Segundo left one huge question unanswered: Why weren't they onstage for the last 50 years?

Hollywood Ain't No Sunshine in Bill Withers Documentary

Still Bill, the documentary about soul legend Bill Withers (not the Tarantino movie), was released on DVD this week. The filmmakers spent eight years documenting the life of the Thoreau-quoting, piano-playing, philosophizing bluesman, who had immense success with a string of R&B and pop hits bu ... More >>

Composers' Birthday Series: Sergey Rachmaninoff

The Russian Culture Center will Rach the house

Super Size Me

Want a Shake with That?

Murder on a Sunday Morning

A white woman's dead and the black teenager accused of killing her is guilty until proven innocent

Greg Berger: Amor en tiempos de influenza (Love in the Time of Flu) and La rebeldia bajo sitio (Rebellion Under Siege)

Powerful Mexican documentaries get a screening at Rice Media Center

The First Annual Indian Film Festival of Houston

Web exclusive

All In a Day's Work

Making snowcones in Shikashika - sounds like a job description to us

Ask Not

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Throw Down Your Heart

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Tchaikovsky Birthday Celebration

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Garbage Warrior

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This American Life - LIVE!

A National Public Radio favorite takes the big screen

The Last Kiss

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Ant Farm 1969-1971: Early Underground Adventures with Space, Land, and Time

Filmmaker Laura Harrison presents a work-in-progress documentary about going through fire (literally) for art

“Echoes in the Ice”

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No End in Sight

Find out who’s responsible for the Iraq war

The Gulf Coast Film Festival Opener

Twenty-six films screen over a three-day celebration of independent movies

Best of Dallas Video Festival

The coolest thing about our northern neighbors may be on video

Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America at MFAH

Some of Latin America’s most promising directors are set to screen new films in their Houston premieres

Manufactured Landscapes

This film by Jennifer Baichwal shows our impact on nature

Unborn in the U.S.A.: Inside the War

Rice students tackle one side of America’s most controversial topic

Independent Black Film Festival

PopCornNLemonade Films screens nine African-American films

New 'Do

Cute Little Shorts

Yao Won't Bow

Buckle Up