George Clooney

Alleged Armed Gunman Shot Dead During Botched Armored Car Robbery Outside Movie Theater

I honesty wonder if people planning on committing robberies ever watch TV or the movies. Time and time again films and television shows depict masked bandits attempting to rob banks, armored cars, stores, fast food restaurants, people on the street...you name it, they try and steal from it. Yet, the ... More >>

Brilliant Lecture Series: Stephen Hawking

5 Bands George Clooney Likes

Boy, the Houston media is in a tizzy about George Clooney today. The King of Hollywood is in town this evening as part of the "Brilliant Lecture Series" at the Wortham Center. (Celebrity With a Cause Alert: Clooney, who will be interviewed by Houston socialite Lynn Wyatt, will probably discuss his a ... More >>

George Clooney: Hollywood Humanitarianism: To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Expected

Houston's Al Green & Some Dude Named George Clooney Arrested In Sudan Protest

U.S. Rep Al Green of Houston got arrested today for protesting outside the Sudanese Embassy in D.C., but few people took note. That's because among the other people arrested were George Clooney, who you might have heard of. The orchestrated arrests were part of Clooney's campaign to raise interest ... More >>

DVDs & Blu-rays: The Ides of March

The Ides of March stars George Clooney and Ryan Gosling; George Clooney directs. The Setup: George Clooney just took home a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama for his performance in The Descendants, so expect to see lots of coverage of him as the Oscars approach. This review, just to be clear ... More >>

Golden Bozos: Your "Official" Live Blog For The 69th Golden Globes

I know, we're all bummed out the Texans lost. But since you've been drinking anyway, you might as well crack open another one and sit through the one awards show even the People's Choice Awards can look down its nose at. I'll be updating this entry throughout the broadcast, so refresh often and try ... More >>

Reviews for the Easily Distracted:
The Descendants

Title: The Descendants Doesn't George Clooney Have An Oscar Already? Nominated five times, won once (Best Supporting Actor for Syriana). Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Four Kilauea volcanoes out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: A Hawaiian land baron must come to grips with the f ... More >>

Fantasy Island

Alexander Payne's Hawaiian excursion might be the feel-good movie of the year. Uh oh.

The Ides of March

Intrigue drowns out argument in political thriller.

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 >>

Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2010

George Clooney Bringing Enron Story To The Screen?

Enron, directed by (and starring?) George Clooney​Enron -- the semi-musical, not the company -- was a hit in London's West End and a failure on Broadway. The fact it bombed in America made it less likely we'd see a production in Houston. But now comes word out of London that George Clooney, o ... More >>

The American

Turning the thriller inward.

Pop Rocks: Flame, Hollywood, Flame

Another well-adjusted Prop 8 supporter​I'm sure you've all heard the terrible news by now: Judge Vaughn "Mussolini" Walker declared California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional. Obviously I don't have to tell you what severe ramifications this will have, not only for the soul of our country ... More >>

Green Zone: Win A Free DVD, And Learn Why Matt Damon Is The Best Of The Ocean's 11 Actors

Thank God Brad Pitt didn't star in this​Green Zone, by shaky-cam master Paul Greengrass, is the latest movie to try to buck the trend of box-office poison that is the Iraq War.Many have tried, but even the most celebrated of the Iraq War flicks, The Hurt Locker, wasn't a blockbuster. (Maybe ... More >>

A Report From The Houston Film Critics Awards

Last Saturday at the Museum of Fine Arts' Brown Auditorium, the Houston Film Critics Society (of which yours truly is a member) held its third annual awards ceremony. It was a star-studded affair, if you consider the presence of one star sufficient to use the term.Here's a list of the winners:Best ... More >>

Destination Unknown

Up in the Air steers clear of the predictable route, lands the emotion.

Destination Unknown

Got Your Goat

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

Intolerable Cruelty: Burn After Reading

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

When’s George Clooney Going to Go into Therapy?

John Royal’s Top Ten All-Time Greatest Sports Movies

Fourth and Inches: Leatherheads

George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

Seven Deadly Sins: Celebrity Edition

Michael Clayton

Watch your back, Grisham: Michael Clayton's no ordinary legal thriller

Let Me Wash That for You, Honey

Ocean's Thirteen

Ocean's Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

Hoop Dreams Come True

Wars, Penguins and Gays: Oh, My!

The year in review

Rogues' Gallery

Racists, louts and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

Blood for Oil

The brilliant, confounding Syriana digs for a necessary truth

Exhuming McCarthy

The Red Scare returns in Good Night, and Good Luck

Sexy Socialites

Hold on to your weekend with the eye candy at Sundown

Nashville Star

The voice that wooed George Clooney comes to town

A Ball, Screwed

The Coens make a '40s comedy with a Cary named Clooney

Safe, Cracked

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

Mind Games

Clooney toys with the twisted delusions of Chuck Barris

The Year of Living Dangerously

Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

Ocean's Ill Heaven

Clooney and Soderbergh do a remake worth watching

Road Outrageous

The Coens take Homer on a Southern-fried odyssey in O Brother

Better in Pairs

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

Desert Gold

An imaginative Three Kings skewers the combat genre

Take Two

A fun documentary follows From Dusk Till Dawn

Leonard's Canny Charmer

Out of Sight satisfies the eyes, mind and emotions

New Studio, Same Old Stuff

DreamWorks's first film is a conventional tale of glam and guns

Batman on Ice

Director Joel Schumacher, not Mr. Freeze, kills the Dark Knight

Love and Other Agenda Items

Bloody Fun

Tarantino meets Rodriguez and, no surprise, all hell breaks loose