Edward Norton

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

Things Go Boom in Avengers

Superheroes bump superegos in Joss Whedon's all-star film.

The Film Issue: 10 for 2012

Superheroes bump superegos in Joss Whedon's all-star film.

The Film Issue

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

WhoMadeWho: It's Time To Get Some Real Problems

​The latest video on our exchange program with Mick Cullen at Subterranean Radio brings us a Danish band called WhoMadeWho. Hopefully the picture up there has already eliminated any AC/DC reference points your brain might have been attempting, because WhoMadeWho is so far on the other side of ... More >>

Watch The Throne: Two Self-Appointed Supermen, Acting Normal As Can Be

​Kanye West is a rapper from Chicago and Jay-Z is a rapper from New York. They made an album together and they called it Watch the Throne and DAS CCRRAAAZZZYYY!!!! It's silly to pretend like Throne isn't good, or at least interesting. Or at least rich. Or at least contemplative. Or at least i ... More >>

Falcon Lake: Casting The Inevitable Lifetime Movie

Tiffany Young-Hartley: Only Reese Witherspoon could do her justice​Okay, so it's time to get started on the script and casting for the movie about David and Tiffany's fateful Jet-Ski trip on Falcon Lake. First, what to name this movie? The Pirates of Falcon Lake will never do: it conjures Johnn ... More >>

Fight Club

Sure, we all know you can't talk about it, but there's no rule that you can't watch it over and over again

Half-Truth

Ricky Gervais can only get so far, or so funny, with The Invention of Lying.

The Red Carpet Calls For Two Rice Students

Asking questions on the Oscars' red carpet is not quite as glamorous as getting asked questions on the Oscars' red carpet, but two students from Rice are hoping fervently they get the chance.The team of Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel (hopeful correspondent and cameraman, respectively) is among the top ... More >>

We Rent the Night: Pride and Glory

New York cop drama holds the audience hostage

The Not Terrible Hulk

In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing

The Astrodome

Mail Call

Hold Your Horses

Mail Call

Camel Light

Mail Call

The Illusionist

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Midnight Club

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Ghost in the Machinist

Christian Bale chases phantoms and loses sleep in Brad Anderson's latest

Safe, Cracked

The Italian Job, a remake better than the original, is a steal

Ground Zero Hour

A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's moving meditation on 9/11

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

The Year of Living Dangerously

Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

See, Hear

Without Elmer Bernstein, scores of movies wouldn't have sounded the same

Queen of Pain

Julie Taymor and Salma Hayek paint a spectacular portrait of Frida Kahlo

Flesh for Fantasy

Dreamy Red Dragon completes the Hannibal boxed set

Death to Patch Adams

Robin Williams returns to his comic-anarchic roots

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

A venomous troll and a poofy rhino fight for children's affection in Death to Smoochy

Boy Meets Goy

So, there's a rabbi and a priest... wait, maybe you've heard this one...

Beyond Despair

Tired plotlines pummel Fight Club

American History Xploitation

Nobody's clamoring to claim this uncertain neo-Nazi film

Manhattan Melodies

In Woody's world, everyone erupts into show tunes

Porn Again

Larry Flynt the movie does something Larry Flynt the man wouldn't: It fails to go all the way