Ewan McGregor

Moulin Rouge

Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Haywire

Title: Haywire So Is Gina Carano The Next Big Action Star? She certainly has the acting chops for it. Uhhh... Exactly. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Two-and-a-half Jean Claude Van Dammes doing the splits out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: Private security operative is betray ... More >>

Odd Couple

She fights like a guy, he grooms like a girl: Gina Carano and Channing Tatum make a good match in Haywire.

You Bettah Work: 10 Rock/Pop Musicians Who Could Take Up Modeling

Lucky for Lana Del Rey -- whose awkward-at-best Saturday Night Live performance last weekend left indie critics second-guessing her skill -- she has a backup career on which to fall, if needed. Last week, days before becoming a poor bundle of nerves on SNL, the up-and-(maybe)-coming songstress signe ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Gina Carano

Who doesn't love a woman with an Uzi? Oh, right: the Palestinians.​Steve Soderbergh, the director of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Traffic, and The Limey has always had an experimental streak. This has come out particularly in recent years, with a remake of Solaris, something called The Girlfriend ... More >>

Life's Second Act

Graphic artist Mike Mills starts something new with Beginners.

For Anthony Weiner, Eight Awkward Dongs From The Movies (NSFW)

Did not make the cut.​In my review of The Hangover Part II, I made a comment about the seeming preponderance of male genitalia on the big screen lately. The phenomenon has been limited primarily to comedies because, let's face it, penises are pretty damn funny looking. Judging by that screeni ... More >>

Gay and Gayer

Jim Carrey and crew go balls-out in the raunchy, liberating Phillip Morris.

Gay and Gayer

Jim Carrey and crew go balls-out in the raunchy, liberating Phillip Morris.

I Love You Phillip Morris

So Who Hasn't Gotten Naked?

W Magazine: All about the art.​In the latest news from the Land That Talent Forgot, Kim Kardashian has gone starkers for the November issue of W Magazine: Kim Kardashian has bared all on the cover of a fashion magazine. The reality star, who turns 30 on Oct. 21, appears nude on W Magazine's ... More >>

Loudon Wainwright III's Top Five Movie Roles

​Aside from being the dad of glam-folkie Rufus Wainwright and similarly talented sister Martha, Loudon Wainwright III is one of the most unsung singer-songwriters still strumming today. With his ex-wife, the late, great Kate McGarrigle, he was a part of a folk power-couple, and songs like "Ruf ... More >>

Jim Carrey's Gay Sex Scenes, Thanks To The Houston Press

The Russian poster for the movie​Movieline, a great site for all your film needs, has been keeping track of the roller-coaster ride that is I Love You Phillip Morris, the Jim Carrey-Ewan McGregor film that is based on the book by Steve McVicker, which is based on stories he did for the Houston Pre ... More >>

New On DVD: Elementary, My Dear Iron Man

​With his 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, out on DVD today, Robert Downey, Jr. joins a long line of distinguished and, hmmm, sometimes odd, actors to play Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous detective. The first name that comes up is Basil Rathbone, who many consider the definitive Sherlock, making 14 ... More >>

He Said She Said: Our Favorite Fictional Performers, Part 2

​Why is that sometimes the fictional bands in movie and television are cooler than real bands? Sadly, some of He Said's favorite bands don't even have albums or videos to speak of, because they don't even exist. The fun part is imagining how awesome their full-length records and tours would be. Th ... More >>

Got Your Goat

We don't mean to sound paranoid, but: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?

He Said She Said: Ten Artists We Would Go Gay For

​It always happens: you and your friends toss back a few beers and the talk turns to what celebrities and models you find attractive. At first it starts out innocent enough, arguing the merits of Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Marissa Miller or Paula Deen. Well that last name is actually just our ... More >>

Angels & Demons with Tom Hanks

Another treat for whacked-out male conspiracy theorists

Living and Dying with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor Over Sundance

How I turned some newspaper stories into a book which became a movie that caused those two guys to kiss

Our Man At Sundance, Part Two: The Screening

Former Houston Press reporter Steve McVicker is reporting from the Sundance Film Festival:Well, Sunday's screening of "our" film, I Love You Phillip Morris, came and went last night, with still no official word of having been snapped up by any major distribution company for mucho dollars. However ... More >>

The 99-Cent Dog Store

It's low-rent, but legal

From Houston Reporter To Jim Carrey Co-Star

Moulin Rouge

Actors Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor camp it up in this musical fantasy

It's more of the same in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream

Life Stinks, Blah, Blah, Blah

Miss Congeniality

Beatrix Potter gets an extreme makeover

Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

Big Fun, Even Small

Bird Droppings

Disney's Valiant effort never leaves the hangar

Send In the Clones

Michael Bay's up to his old tricks -- now older than ever

On the Dark Side

Why Episode III isn't the movie it should have been

Sith Is It

George Lucas at last delivers the Star Wars prequel we've been waiting for

Going Mental

Mindhunters is truly stupid fun

Talkin' 'Bot Love

Like Big Fish for little kids, Robots works hard to please everyone

Peter Panache

J.M. Barrie gets a Hollywood makeover in Finding Neverland

After the Fall

Temptation flourishes in the garden of Young Adam

Lying Liar

A dad tells Big Fish tales to a son who can't believe his ears

The Art Is a Lonely Hunter

A retro Down with Love is suckin' in the '60s

Shadows of the Empire

George Lucas tries to reclaim his lost glory with Episode II

Hell and Back

Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors

The Great Escape

Baz Luhrmann makes movies--and audiences--in his own image

Yes, It Can-Can

The delightfully eccentric Moulin Rouge giddily juggles eras

Storming The Beach

However shallow, Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a baptism of blood

Episode I: What Did You Expect?

It's Star Wars, all right

Singing Praises

Little Voice lights up the soul with humor and pathos

Glam-rock Goldmine

Stylish Velvet unfolds to reveal real substance

Cliche-spotting

The Write Stuff

The Pillow Book successfully mixes calligraphy and sex

Sweet Jane

Highs and Lows

A needle, a junkie, a heroin habit -- welcome to Great Britain in the '90s

Buried Deep