Elmore Leonard

Get Lit: Noogie’s Time To Shine, by Jim Knipfel

Post-Pulp

Jackie Brown shows Tarantino looking for direction

Leonard's Canny Charmer

Out of Sight satisfies the eyes, mind and emotions

Eight for '98

Out of Sight satisfies the eyes, mind and emotions

John Royal's New Year's Resolutions for 2009

In honor of the New Year, I thought I would go the cliché route and give you my Ten Resolutions for 2009. 10. I'm going to continue to be as objective as I can when it comes to my coverage of Houston sports. 9. I'm going to find some way to get the Houston Press to pay for my MLB Extra Innings pa ... More >>

Joshua, Sunshine, 3:10 to Yuma, Zodiac: 2-Disc Director's Cut

In honor of the New Year, I thought I would go the cliché route and give you my Ten Resolutions for 2009. 10. I'm going to continue to be as objective as I can when it comes to my coverage of Houston sports. 9. I'm going to find some way to get the Houston Press to pay for my MLB Extra Innings pa ... More >>

3:10 to Yuma

James Mangold remakes a classic western for our ADD times

The Lookout

Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in this character-driven theft thriller

Get Lost

It'd Be Cool if this sequel were any good. Too bad it ain't.

A Tall Order

The Rock tries on Joe Don Baker's shoes for size, and they don't quite fit

Half and Half

Kill Bill's missing something -- like, oh, a proper ending

Barry Bad

Sonnenfeld's comic caper is in Big Trouble

The Pelecanos Brief

Add "novelist" to George Pelecanos's long résumé

Be Cool

Elmore Leonard finds fodder for fiction in the Stone Coyotes, a real-life rock and roll band

God(grand)-fathers

Aging mobsters just want a warm place to sleep in The Crew

The Week In TV: New Cable Shows Worth Watching

​I'm confused by the weather, recovered from South By Southwest, and forbidden from re-enacting Ghost. This was the week in TV Land: • I'm a week behind on HBO's The Pacific. This is my own fault; between this show and others, sometimes things get put on the back burner. The good news is t ... More >>

Six Songs That Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

​If there's one musician whose advice is worth heeding, it ought to be Johnny Cash. But when the Man in Black sang "Don't Take Your Guns To Town," a whole lot of musicians must not have been listening. Perhaps they were tuning in one of Cash's other songs that takes a different point of view - ... More >>

Let It Bleed

Hard at work on his eighth novel, Deadwood author Pete Dexter still packs a punch.