Julia Roberts

Charlie Wilson’s War, Now with Less 9/11

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

Miss Pop Rocks Loves (the First Half of) the Oscars

When’s George Clooney Going to Go into Therapy?

Okie Glamour

Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman as poor white folk? It's best not to question the attraction of Where the Heart Is.

Low Fashion

Robert Altman's Ready to Wear is all dressed up with nowhere to go

30 Rock Takes Another Little Piece of Port Arthur

One of the only things Rocks Off loves as much as Tom Petty and chicken-fried steak is NBC's brilliant, multiple Emmy-winning 30 Rock, which he thinks is the best TV comedy since The Larry Sanders Show. Now he loves it even more after last night's deliciously twisted episode, "Senor Mach ... More >>

Foreign Affairs

One of the only things Rocks Off loves as much as Tom Petty and chicken-fried steak is NBC's brilliant, multiple Emmy-winning 30 Rock, which he thinks is the best TV comedy since The Larry Sanders Show. Now he loves it even more after last night's deliciously twisted episode, "Senor Mach ... More >>

Irish Republican Angst

Michael Collins examines the man behind the IRA

Manhattan Melodies

In Woody's world, everyone erupts into show tunes

Petty Woman

Wedding smothers the romantic comedy -- by embracing it hard

Perfect Mess

What's wrong with this Picture? Everything.

But What If the Nuts Are Right?

Conspiracy Theory offers a new action hero: the addled Everyman

Night & Day

November 5 - 11, 1998

Super Stepmom

Tears will flow over this terrific showcase for Sarandon

Notting Off

Star power isn't enough to overcome this hollow romance

Tony Gilroy's (heretofore unseen) Expert Light Touch in Duplicity

The Bourne Comedian

Kit Kittredge Is As American as Overpriced Dolls

All it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine

Last Concert Café

Hippie wolves haunt and howl at the former whorehouse

A Very Long Run

Hippie wolves haunt and howl at the former whorehouse

Lyle Lovett

Sunday, September 18, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300.

First Dance

Bride and groom take the stage at "Encore!"

Faker's Dozen

A rare superior sequel, Ocean's Twelve entertains with cinematic sleight of hand

Closer to Fine

Urban savages wage war over sex in Mike Nichols's dreadfully funny new film

Style Council

Macy's Impulse party is all about chic shopping

The Jizz Age

X-rated starlets bust through the fourth wall

A Ball, Screwed

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

Year of the Woman

The big-screen dames of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Full Frontal Assault

Soderbergh shoots in digital and hits his target: Hollywood

Revolting

Meet The New Guy, same as the old guy

A Tangled Web

Along Came a Spider's flimsy plot survives only because of its many cheats

Los Gringos Locos

Julia Roberts's and Brad Pitt's performances go straight south in The Mexican

Better in Pairs

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

Middle-Age Crazy

The Lifestyle goes where no documentary has gone before: suburban group sex

Boob Job

Julia Roberts and her cleavage fight social injustice in Erin Brockovich

Wasted Wedding

Star power can't rescue this unreally bad story

Aftermath: Bonnie Raitt at Verizon Wireless Theater

Photos by Craig Hlavaty For someone with such a deep California/New England pedigree - daughter of Broadway/Hollywood actor John Raitt, schooled at Radcliffe and the Northeast coffeehouse '60s folk scene, now living in Northern California - Bonnie Raitt sure gets Texas music. She could almost be the ... More >>

Congressman Michael McCaul Lands The Big Kahuna -- Rush

Illustration by marsdencartoonsCongressman Michael McCaul, whose district stretches (somehow) from Katy to Austin, has landed a Big Fish for a fundraiser: Rush Limbaugh, the de facto head of the current Republican party.An invitation to the May 28 event in Houston has gone out to supporters. McCaul' ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Dear John...Cusack

​You used to be cool, John Cusack.We first noticed it in the 1980s, when "cool" didn't have a lot of meaning. People used the word in connection with Jan Hammer, the Go-Bots, and Kirk Cameron, which should give you an idea how lost we really were. But somehow you dodged the pitfalls of The Bre ... More >>

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

So many stars, so many storylines: It's a Valentine's Day massacre!

For St. Patrick's Day: Five Irish Movies You Need To See

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, when everyone's Irish, yadda yadda yadda.How best to get ready for it? Watching a movie tonight would be one way. Unfortunately, a lot of the "great" Irish movies suck. The Quiet Man? Oy vey. Maureen O'Hara is nicely feisty, but John Wayne is as wooden as ever and the ... More >>

Five Movie Couples With Worse Chemistry Than Gerard Butler And Jennifer Aniston

The Bounty Hunter earned $21 million at the box office last weekend. A respectable take, though only enough to place third -- behind Alice in Wonderland and fellow opener Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The movie still looks like it'll earn a decent haul, then again, I don't remember seeing any of the Wimpy ... More >>

At 4:20 On 4/20, Music's Biggest Burnouts

​ You should all know what today is. Today is the day pot-smoking amateurs giggle to one another about how high they're going to be all day, while the real potheads simply wait with stoic stoner patience for the magic hour to roll around. Yeah, you'll know the real burnouts when you see them. Not ... 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 >>

So Who Hasn't Gotten Naked?

W Magazine: All about the art.​In the latest news from the Land That Talent Forgot, Kim Kardashian has gone starkers for the November issue of W Magazine: Kim Kardashian has bared all on the cover of a fashion magazine. The reality star, who turns 30 on Oct. 21, appears nude on W Magazine's ... More >>

App of the Week: Six Awesome, Free Apps for Movie Buffs

These six apps will help you with any movie, except Human Centipede. For that, you're on your own.​It's awards season. From People's Choice to the Screen Actors Guild to the Academy Awards and the other hundred worthless statues given out this time of year, people are talking about movies, and ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Non-Transformers Robot Movies We'd Like to See

​I have nothing against robots, per se. Some of the greatest antagonists in sci-fi have been fearsome automatons like those found in Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series, or the Terminator, or the...Battle Android Troopers (B.A.T.s) from G.I. Joe. I guess. And although robot offerings in recent ... More >>

Middle of the Road

Tom Hanks ages into mid-life obsolescence in the middling Larry Crowne.

Pop Rocks: And Now, Your Worst Movies of 2011

​As 2011 draws to a close, the natural tendency is to reflect on events of the past 12 months. Did we accomplish everything we'd hoped? Did we end the year in a better place than we started? Did that terrifying rash all over our genitalia clear up on its own, or should we finally see a doctor? ... More >>

Houston Film Critics Society: Best of 2011

​As 2011 draws to a close, the natural tendency is to reflect on events of the past 12 months. Did we accomplish everything we'd hoped? Did we end the year in a better place than we started? Did that terrifying rash all over our genitalia clear up on its own, or should we finally see a doctor? ... More >>