The Houston Film Critics
Society, of which yours truly is a member (along with the those two
guys that used to work for the Chronicle, among others), just
released their 2008 award winners. I'm already drafting a strong letter
of protest haranguing my fellow HFCS members for failing to acknowledge
Rambo's greatness in any category, but that's a story for
another day.BEST PICTURE -- The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonBEST DIRECTOR OF A MOTION PICTURE -- Danny Boyle, Slumdog
MillionaireBEST PERFO
With the recent addition of Karachi, Pakistan, Houston now is a sister to 18 other cities around the world. Hair Balls is on the case - we studied all of them so you wouldn't have to. See the first half here.Sister: Luanda, AngolaHow we are sisterly: Houston's only African sister is yet another seaport/oil hub and its population (4.8 million) and hot climate are similar to ours. There is also this from Wikipedia: "Luanda's roads are currently in a poor state of repair, but are currently undergo
Note: The date on the above poster should say September 1.This week's film selection for Rocks Off Movie Nite at the Mink - that's right, we're now officially co-sponsoring this thing - is Tim Burton's 1989 reboot of Batman, starring the third-coolest man to step into the cowl and cape - "Mr. Mom" himself, Michael Keaton. Sorry, Val Kilmer and George Clooney, you make better drunken rock-star buffoons and caper-planning cads than Caped Crusaders.
One of the things that go into the curation of
Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do.
It seems that every year Halloween becomes less and less about scaring other people and more about what current pop-culture reference you can cleverly pull off. One year wearing a Cubs hat and headphones was all the rage after fan Steve Bartman snatched a foul ball from outf
