Jimmy Stewart

Vertigo

Gifts Galore

Wrapping up Houston's holiday shows.

Jim Parsons on Broadway in Harvey, but Who Will Play Harvey?

It was just announced that Houston's favorite nerd, Jim Parsons, will return to Broadway this coming spring. Parsons, who made his big stage debut this past year in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, will now take on the lead role in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Harvey. Harvey is about a seemingl ... More >>

Five Gifted Actors Play 43 Roles in It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Texas Rep

The setup: The perennially popular movie featuring Jimmy Stewart is recast, this time as a highly original radio play. The execution: The production is much more than audio, as we are at the art deco set of WBKR, a radio station featuring The Playhouse of the Air. In fact, it is filled with visua ... More >>

Professors, Poetry and Public Sex

Catastrophic Theatre fave Mickle Maher mounts another success.

The 10 Best Warplane Films, According to Real Aviation Buffs (No Top Gun, Thank You)

Featuring a proto-beatnik jet pilot​With the possible exceptions of horses and ships, no other non-speaking entity has starred in so many motion pictures as the airplane. And we love airplanes. We love them so much we've probably seen every last airplane movie worth watching, and even more tha ... More >>

It’s a Wonderful Life

Featuring a proto-beatnik jet pilot​With the possible exceptions of horses and ships, no other non-speaking entity has starred in so many motion pictures as the airplane. And we love airplanes. We love them so much we've probably seen every last airplane movie worth watching, and even more tha ... More >>

Seven Songs To Mourn A Beloved Pet

R.I.P. Cholula​The Craig's Hlist family had an emotional time this past week, to say the least. We had to say goodbye to our chihuahua Cholula after 11 years of bright-eyed yapping and begging for scraps and cookies. She had a bad back, which basically rendered her hind legs paralyzed the last ... More >>

Adaptive Behavior

Killer's tormented self gets simplified for screen.

Alley Theatre Proves There's More to Harvey Than Meets the Eye

​Hair Balls has always been partial to people who don't quite fit into the world in traditional ways.So we jumped at the chance to talk with actor James Black, who is tackling the classic role of the well-intentioned and idiosyncratic Elwood P. Dowd in the upcoming production of Harvey at the Alle ... More >>

For Opening Day: Five Terrific Baseball Movies, None Of Which Star Kevin Costner

Opening Day is finally here, and we can once again try to resolve our love/hate relationship with the Houston Astros.As of this writing, they are undefeated, so -- so far, so good.Baseball, for all its problems, has long had an unbreakable hold on Americans. So have movies. So here are five great ba ... More >>

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock titillates the voyeur in all of us

Silver Blades on the Silver Screen: It’s a Wonderful Life

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Supermarket Sweep in The Promotion

Male fulfillment and lack thereof

No Highway in the Sky

MFAH hosts the Movies Houstonians Love series with guest speaker Dr. John Lienhard

Disturbia

With Hitchcock in its rear window, bland voyeur thriller does its best not to perturb(ia)

Welcome back, Rock Star

Dilana comes home to the reality after reality TV

Spank This

I answer a call for help and get pulled into a cesspool of doo-doo

Another Look at a Legend

I answer a call for help and get pulled into a cesspool of doo-doo

Work It, Baby

A local collective gets artsy and silly at Mackey Gallery

No More Wussies

Or, why Tom Hanks isn't Steve Guttenberg

Gettin' Windy in the City

The Chicago clip crew gleefully gabs on in Barbershop 2

Pap Fiction

Travolta unloads another awful bomb in Basic

The Devil You Say

Was Jeffery Prible the cold-blooded murderer of an entire family? Or the gullible target of an opportunistic jailhouse informant?

Rejected

Thousands of inmates rely annually on a capricious parole board for their freedom. Most, like George Dismukes, return to their cells without ever knowing why they were denied.

Tonight at the Improv...

Thousands of inmates rely annually on a capricious parole board for their freedom. Most, like George Dismukes, return to their cells without ever knowing why they were denied.

Lynch Mob Returns?

Former fans uncertain of the new direction for a dynamic director

The Insider

Former fans uncertain of the new direction for a dynamic director

Dripping with Irony

Hard Rain drowns the myth of small-town virtue

Death Becomes Her

Hard Rain drowns the myth of small-town virtue

Feature

Headline:The Case Against Hurwitz In one of the last big S&L cases from the '80s, two federal agencies are pursuing Charles Hurwitz over the failure of united Savings. And for once, Hurwitz may have no place to hide.