Jerry Lewis

Vive La France: 14 French Lessons From English Pop Songs

Shutterstock/faqs.org​Happy Bastille Day, everybody. Today France celebrates the day in 1789 when an angry mob stormed the eponymous (our new favorite word) prison in central Paris, freed all seven prisoners - they were really after the guns and ammunition, Clash-style - and touched off the Fr ... More >>

14 Things You Didn't Know About Rick Springfield

2. Rick Springfield is a stone cold sex fiend... ​In recent years, many musicians have put down their instruments (at least temporarily) and picked up the computer keyboard to produce some pretty revelatory memoirs. And in one case, perhaps too revelatory - Billy Joel recently pulled the plug ... More >>

This Is a Man's World

A comedy written by and starring women, Bridesmaids still screwed.

Me And Charlie Sheen

​Barely a week has passed since Charlie Sheen's Krakatoa style career meltdown and it's already hard to think of anything new to say about it. You've already got warlock pictures, expert rehab advice from Dr. Drew (who's already threatening to topple Dr. Phil as Most Annoyingly Omnipresent Med ... 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.

Pop Rocks: You'll Be Sorry When They're Gone

​Harvey Pekar died yesterday. What was lost in the usual exercise of macabre one-upmanship -- as everyone rushed to update Twitter and Facebook in an effort to be the first to break the bad news to all their friends -- was the fact that most of them were only aware of Pekar's existence thanks ... More >>

Jimmy Buffett Kicks Off His Flip-Flops At The Woodlands

Photos by Brittanie Shey​ In 2008, Aftermath was on vacation in France. We decided to catch a show of the Spaghetti Western Orchestra, who had a month-long performance residency at a tiny theater in the Bastille neighborhood of Paris. The band is an Australian quintet that performs the music of En ... More >>

Death Race 2008

Amy Winehouse, Chuck Berry, Bobby Brown: Who'll be the first to go?

Miss Pop Rocks: More Pop Culture Items To Be Thankful For This Year

Other Cinema Digital: A Mediarchaeological Survey

Works from the movie house that inspired the Aurora Picture Show

Double Vision

Jess and Lisa Origliasso give teen pop a harmonic jolt as the Veronicas

Who's Laughing?

Albert Brooks looks for comedy and comes up empty

Backhanded Slapstick

Jim Carrey's brand of fun warms a reheated Dick and Jane

Strange Brew

The Truth is, Egoyan's latest is B-movie noir, with killer performances

Sister Laughter

Houston's newest all-female comedy troupe makes its debut

Les Nubians

Sunday, July 20

The War with Chirac

Guerin's Bistro fights the good fight while anti-French sentiment swirls about Houston and the United States

Power Play

Jim Carrey goes from physical to metaphysical comedy in Bruce Almighty

Catcher in the Sky

Spielberg gets caught up in the thrill of the chase

Disorganized Crime

A pair of Swingers gets whacked in the witless mob comedy Made

Crazy from the Heat

Boorman and Le Carré lose touch with their thrill-seeking personae in Panama

No Contest

KPRC uses the IRS for this month's sweeps giveaway

Dr. Jekyll and Jim Carrey

The freewheeling comedic actor has double the fun in Me, Myself & Irene

Hot Plate

I'm Crushing Your Head!

The Kids in the Hall

To Die Laughing

Chaplinesque Life uses humor against Holocaust horrors

Tube Message

Everyman's Jim Carrey examines TV's omnipotence in The Truman Show

Deja Vu All Over Again

The cocktail party never ends in le cinema du Henry Jaglom

Dead Heads

In this brainless comedy, the corpses are the liveliest things on the screen

The Angelides Affair

A dispute over research fraud has split the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, and could jeopardize the way universities police scientific misconduct

Doesn't Suck

Beavis and Butt-head get off the couch and onto the big screen

Combustible Vegas

Mr. S.O.B.

Rick's CEO Robert Watters wants to make sexually oriented businesses respectable. So why, in his adopted hometown, does he get no respect?

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Press Picks

Four Rooms, All Vacant

Press Picks

Make 'em Laugh

With Funny Bones, Peter Chelsom dips into humor's dark side

The Why of WorldFest

Houston's film festival returns a "lean, mean movie machine"

The Year of Living Anxiously

Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

Screwball Comedy

A Comedy of Errors for the television age