Helen Mirren

King Britt

Station Break

Beset by budget problems, bereft of substantive local programming, Channel 8 finds itself at a crossroads. Perhaps it's time to put the "public" back into Houston Public Television.

Mothers Against Deliberate Dying

Some Mother's Son shows an uprising's confusion

Reading Rainbow: Inkheart

Nothing like a bad book adaptation to turn kids on to the written word

Disorder in the Court

In The Madness of King George, it's not good to be king

State of Play

Journalistic nostalgia meets political intrigue in a brave new world.

Caligula: Imperial Edition, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, 1408: Collector's Edition and Mystics in Bali

Journalistic nostalgia meets political intrigue in a brave new world.

Five Wonders of the World

Journalistic nostalgia meets political intrigue in a brave new world.

Straight to Helen

Hudson's a bad mother, and sister, in this pat parenthood tale

Get a Clue

Robert Altman revives his rep with an old-fashioned murder mystery

Tingle Hell

A monstrous teacher finally meets her match

Diary of a Sad Black Woman

Precious pushes the limits of taste, but locates the heart — and hell — of its heroine's struggle.

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day 2 (The Remakening)

Honestly, do you really care?​I write a lot about Hollywood's obsession with remakes because I'm a movie buff, first and foremost, and because as a "writer" it's easy to milk an announcement of the latest atrocity from Platinum Dunes for 750 indignant words regarding the creative demise of Hollywo ... More >>

Killer Instincts, Bad Knees

Helen Mirren will cut you in Red.

Oscar Night 2011: The Live Blog!

​We are only less than three hours out from bringing you live-blogging coverage, right here, of this year's Academy Awards, and we are more than excited to take you through the night for every win, loss, awful dress, awesome dress, foible, and foul-up Hollywood throws our way.

5 Movies That Wouldn't Exist Without George Harrison

halfwayhousemusic.com​After giving the deluxe documentary treatment to Bob Dylan (No Direction Home) and the Rolling Stones (Shine a Light), Martin Scorsese now trains his camera on George Harrison for George Harrison: Living In the Material World, his two-part film about the "Quiet Beatle" th ... More >>