Keanu Reeves

Bizarre Acting Roles by 20 Famous Musicians

It's a toss-up whether actors or musicians will go to greater lengths to make rent, but some musicians have even found themselves so hard up they've been forced to take an acting gig. Such is the case with the haystack-sized Sleepy LaBeef, who in 1968's The Exotic Ones appeared as the "Swamp Monster ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Gina Carano

Who doesn't love a woman with an Uzi? Oh, right: the Palestinians.​Steve Soderbergh, the director of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Traffic, and The Limey has always had an experimental streak. This has come out particularly in recent years, with a remake of Solaris, something called The Girlfriend ... More >>

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 >>

Pop Rocks: One Of Those "Good News/Bad News" Things

Only this time, no cropped shirts.​Or maybe even "Okay News/Bad News," depending on your feelings regarding San Dimas High School football. That's right, the rumors you've heard may or may not be true in that a third Bill and Ted movie might or might not be getting made: Keanu Reeves has be ... More >>

Top 10 Fallen Fast Food Items

Much has been made in the past few weeks about the McRib, McDonald's exalted ground pork and barbecue sauce wonder. You may remember it first hitting America's mouths in the early '80s, not selling extremely well, and only coming back every now and then. It returned briefly in 1994 as the "Brontos ... More >>

The Top 10 Horror-Movie Scores Of All Time

Not on the list...ha-ha!​The art of the instrumental horror-film score is quickly being lost. All too often now, filmmakers are using heavy metal and pop music to soundtrack their films. Hearing Slipknot or HIM during a stabbing scene just doesn't hold the same weight to us as some tubular bel ... More >>

Falcon Lake: Casting The Inevitable Lifetime Movie

Tiffany Young-Hartley: Only Reese Witherspoon could do her justice​Okay, so it's time to get started on the script and casting for the movie about David and Tiffany's fateful Jet-Ski trip on Falcon Lake. First, what to name this movie? The Pirates of Falcon Lake will never do: it conjures Johnn ... More >>

The Corn N' Oil

​For weeks, we have resisted the urge to write about the Corn N' Oil. After all, this column should be a refuge from the daily stream of petroleum press about the Gulf becoming saturated with incompetence in addition to oil. But the barrage of Kevin Costner clips, BP CEO "Seriously did he just ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The Celebrity DUI Conundrum

​I've always preferred brunettes. Aside from making me not a gentleman, this simply meant I favored Jaclyn Smith over Farrah Fawcett, Lynda Carter (or JoAnna Cameron) to Deidre Hall, Yasmine Bleeth to Gena Lee Nolin, and Jane Seymour over, well...just about any of the other Bond Girls. Given ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Send In the Clowns

​The insane clowns, that is. And their...posse. Long an in-joke among connoisseurs of bad music and trailer park culture, even as they've enjoyed extensive significant success without the benefit of radio or MTV airplay, Insane Clown Posse are enjoying unexpected popularity thanks to a couple ... More >>

The Day the Plot Stood Still

Sci-fi remake misses the point, and that's a Klaatu barada no-no

How Depressed Do You Have to be to Want To See Nights in Rodanthe?

Slo-Mo Football-Movie Finales: The Top Five

Cop Out: Street Kings

Boys will be boys in this shallow look at dirty police

Freaked

Bill and Ted get sidetracked at a sideshow

Hot Fuzz

You liked Shaun of the Dead? Then Hot Fuzz will bust a cap in your arse

Buzz Killer

It's 1995 all over again...and again

Truly, Madly, Darkly

Richard Linklater's Scanner is a rotoscoped feast for freaks

Hope Floats

The Lake House reunites Bullock and Reeves in a twilight-zone romance

Scared Stiff

Wayne Kramer's latest casts a Paul over the proceedings

Exit the Matrix

The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky

The Opposite of Suck

Mike Mills's debut is smart, funny and gorgeously sad

Explosive Action

Get a bang for your buck this Fourth of July

Hell to Pay

Constantine shuns its comic-book roots for real depth as Reeves returns in black

Method Rocking

Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Letters

Cool Front

Things get chill when DJ Icey spins into town

Do the Indie Thing

WorldFest celebrates the obscure

Pop-Punk Penance

A cool kid seeks heavenly redemption

Acting Their Age

Middle-aged Diane Keaton wins Jack Nicholson away from the young'uns in Something's Gotta Give

Silly Humans, The Matrix Is for Kids!

Revolutions runs a playful joyride through a nifty vision of hell

Neo Sparrin'

The Matrix Reloaded doesn't dodge the dynamic action

Screechin' Halt

Dustin Diamond finds out what laughter sounds like when it's not canned

Mower Heads

Weekend racers circle the track on their John Deeres

Fenix*TX Rising

Betrayal! Blink 182! Boobies! The Houston band has lived to tell all.

Damning with Faint Praise

Keanu Reeves, the low-wattage movie star, somehow makes Sweet November easier to watch

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

Eager to Please

Intended as irony, the title of Miss Congeniality really says it all

Picking at Scabs

Someone please find some substitute filmmakers for The Replacements

Phonics of Phoenix

riverfenix has new record, name

Matrix Off the MIA List

Tinseltown didn't like the delivery-truck editing

High-tech High Jinks

Sci-fi Matrix moves beyond reality at warp speed

Rotation

That Sinking Feeling

Speed 2 runs aground before the ship starts its engine

Rotation

Heavenly Stroll

Press Picks

No Bang, No Bing, No Boom

Blown Away isn't just about bombs. It is one.

On the Fast Track

Speed proves there's still life in the old car chase