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Texas Activist Chains Neck to White House Fence (German Bike Locks Rock)

If you've never heard of Diane Wilson, you've probably heard about the environmentalist who poured Karo syrup on herself on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to protest the BP oil spill. (That was Wilson.) Or about the one who chained herself to the Dow Chemical tower in 2002, se ... More >>

Five Songs That Name-Drop the Astrodome

On this day in 1965, what was then called the Harris County Domed Stadium opened to the public. These days the Astrodome sits mournfully overlooking the empty lot that was Six Flags Astroworld, a testament to the fact that no one can think of what to do with an enormous structure that has outlived i ... More >>

Tattoo Nation: Ink Me

New film documents Southern California's tattoo scene, from Danny Trejo to Ed Hardy.

RiFF RaFF and Hip-Hop's Greatest Method Rappers

There's an idea floating around in the pools of rap consciousness that most guys within the genre are merely method actors on par with Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln. Rick Ross might have already secured a few Academy Awards with his confusing portrayal of a flamboyant mafioso kingpin who dwells in mat ... More >>

Team Kerouac

Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund chat about the film version of On the Road.

The "Mutiny On The Bounty" Ship May Be Coming To Galveston

A replica of the Bounty -- the ship that gave us the Mutiny -- may spend the winter at Galveston's Pier 21, ready to receive guests and tours. The ship, which has been used in such epics as the Mutiny remake, the Pirates of the Caribbean and SpongeBob SquarePants, according to impeccable Web resour ... More >>

Meet The Monsters of TIFF

A glimpse of this year's most bracing films.

Wait a Minute! Who Is That? Top 10 Videos With Famous Actor Cameos

When you are an actor, you take basically whatever will feed you just as long as you get to perform. Many actors either got their start in music videos or they will appeared in one after they got famous. Oftentimes, they are pretty memorable.

Viv! (The Story Behind the Legend)

Paramount Turns 100

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow: The Godfather, Part 1

15 Inferior Best Picture Oscar Winners (And the Enduring Classics They Beat)

Last Wednesday, Craiggers hit on some forgotten Best Picture Academy Award winners, films which have slipped through the cracks of society's consciousness for one reason or another; either for being too of-the-moment, not having enough quotable lines, or for simply not having held up very well -- hi ... More >>

Confidential, The Classic Gossip Mag: Eight Of its Most Baffling Headlines

Confidential was the most-feared Hollywood magazine back in the day. While still somewhat sedate by 21st-century standards, it was no-holds-barred in classic Hollywood. Famously, it lost a libel suit (in Britain) for saying Liberace was gay. Anyway, looking at covers that are floating around the w ... More >>

Four Musicians The G.I. Bill Put On Their Way

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Pop Rocks: "Getting Too Old For This Shit" - A Cinematic History

The first?​Time marches on. There comes a point in all of our lives when the inevitability of our eventual demise goes from esoteric concept to concrete fact. There's no set schedule for when awareness will strike; maybe it's the first time your back gives out, or when you find yourself squint ... More >>

The Five Sexiest Old Actresses Who Died In 2010

As in every year, people died in 2010. Famous people. Sexy people. Or people who were, at one time, both famous and sexy. While they may have been elderly by the time they went to join the Great Majority, it is as they were in their prime that they should be remembered. Keeping that in mind, here ... More >>

Bands Named After Movies, Characters & Other Film Stuff

​Ever wonder which of your favorite bands are named after movies? So have we. So we went out and did a little bit of research. BANDS NAMED AFTER ACTUAL MOVIES My Bloody Valentine: The seminal shoegaze act took their name from a low-budget 1981 horror movie about a guy who really, really hat ... More >>

Last Night: Kings Of Leon At The Woodlands

Photos by Marc Brubaker​Kings of Leon Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September 22, 2010 Sold. It took us long enough, or it took them long enough, but Aftermath has had our last cup of Kings of Leon haterade. We found them tepid at Verizon in 2008 and standoffish at Toyota Center last year ... More >>

Long Way Down

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Beat the Devil's Tattoo is the reverb-heavy rockers' most cohesive LP yet.

False Prophet

No visionary he, the "French Scorsese" arrives stateside with his '70s-style gangster epic.

Bernardo Cubría Is Counting The Minutes Until Tonight's Premiere Of Down, Boy

​New York actor and former Houstonian Bernardo Cubría is starting to get a little nervous right about now -- he's just hours away from the staged reading of his play Down, Boy by Wordsmyth Theater Company. At the first reading, earlier this year, he was, ah, anxious. "It's like watching your ... More >>

70 Years After A Nazi Invasion, Poland Gets Respect: The Five Best Movie Poles

On September 1, 1939, German forces invaded Poland. Soviet troops joined the attack (in adherence to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) on September 16, and by the first of October, the country was entirely in enemy hands, and World War II was well underway.Poland and its people have had enough problems, ... More >>

What It Feels Like for a Girl

Pitch-perfect child performances root Treeless Mountain.

Soderbergh's True Character

Sasha Grey plays the part — or a part — of herself in The Girlfriend Experience.

For Cinco de Mayo: Five Non-Mexican Mexicans In The Movies

Cinco de Mayo is a day for Americans of Mexican descent to commemorate their rich history and heritage while at the same time trying to ignore the legions of mouth-breathing Chron commenters clamoring for their deportation. And if being blamed for the H1N1 (don't call it swine) flu outbreak wasn't ... More >>

Superman

In the age of limitless special effects, Richard Donner’s superhero flick could teach youngsters a thing or two about character.

Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Sad Decline

Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Extra! Read All About It

Low-Rent Scoundrels

This Broadway show is a fun piece of fluff

Smells Like Victory

Recycled Steel

You'll swear you've seen this Superman somewhere before

Mob Hit Misses

The Godfather game isn't personal. It's strictly business.

Class Conscious

Live and learn with some of Houston's most entertaining courses

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Fahrenheit 2004

Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

Focking Wonderful

Streisand and Hoffman save a family -- and a movie, too

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This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Angry Young Men

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club takes on a lot of targets with its second album

You, Spy

Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

Apocalypse Cow

Finding the press box at Reliant Stadium proves to be a journey into the heart of darkness

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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Couch Capo

De Niro's comedic mob mastery excels in Analyze This

Night & Day

October 15 - 21, 1998

Hankies Aweigh

The Land Girls takes off as a decent tearjerker, then runs dry

A Different Desire

Tennessee Williams' Streetcar comes to a stop at the Alley

Lover Men

Three films offer differing takes on the myth of the romantic hero

It's a Wonderful Lottery

It Could Happen To You proves itself a winning ticket

American Potluck

At WorldFest, variety doesn't always prove spicy