Matthew Broderick

Bronx Bombers: Gimme the Loot

Adam Leon's stellar first film - and TV show - toasts the tag artist.

Is O.N.E. Becoming a Houston Rap Folk Hero?

There's a scene in 1997's Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon is talking to Robin Williams about getting beaten as a child. He tells Williams that his foster dad used to lay out things on a table (wrench, belt, etc) and ask which one he wanted to be hit with. Damon said he always chose the wrench. Wh ... More >>

The Hair Balls Super Bowl Live Blog: Remember To Piss

In some alternate universe, the streets of Houston are currently bathed in Miller Lite, Reliant Stadium and every bar in town is a watch party, with even the homeless folks are wearing soiled Texans jerseys. But alas, our Houston Texans only made it into the second round of the playoffs, and here we ... More >>

Ferris Bueller 2: What Might Have Been

With the death of writer-director John Hughes in August 2009, all hope of a truly great Ferris Bueller sequel went out the window. It was a concept that had been bandied about the whole two decades since the original's 1986 release, with star Matthew Broderick even remarking that he and Hughes just ... More >>

Five of This Year's Super Bowl Ads, Rated: Beckham's Junk, Seinfeld's Desperation -- It's Gonna Be a Long Sunday

Super Bowl Sunday means more talk about television ads than at any other time of the year. Companies are now leaking previews and extended versions of the ads online, meaning you can get some idea just how good/bad things will be. Let's just say it doesn't look promising, if these five ads are any ... More >>

High-rise Robbery

Stealing from the rich to...oh, whatever. Funny is the message in Tower Heist.

Pop Rocks: How Does The Lion King Stand Up Among Recent Disney Releases?

Hail to the king...of the box office.​Box office analysts were a bit puzzled by the haul taken in by The Lion King 3D last weekend. The 1994 film was given the three-dimensional treatment and released to the tune of almost $30 million, beating both Contagion and fellow openers Drive ($11 milli ... More >>

The Best Summer Movie Soundtracks Of The '90s

This movie is old enough to drive.​Summer is officially here, even though it's been ball-dripping sweaty since at least early May. This is also about the time that we are already steeped in big-budget Hollywood summer would-be blockbusters, the kind of movies that have fast-food promotions and ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day III (John Hughes Edition)

They wouldn't dare...​We've done this on Pop Rocks a few times already, not that it's made any difference. All those upcoming crimes against cinema -- from The Birds to Fright Night to Escape From New York -- are all due to be released in the next few years (Fright Night this summer). And ther ... More >>

The Week In TV: NBC Comedies Are Finally Back

We've missed you.​My parking lot's flooded, I had my first crawfish on Friday, and I feel like funkin' it up. This was the week in TV Land: • Ah, the joys and frustrations of the endless news cycle: Not a couple hours after last week's round-up column went live -- in which I ruminated on C ... More >>

Game Time: Global Thermonuclear War In Lubbock

​Remember the movie War Games where Matthew Broderick's character hacks into some online set of games, decides to play Global Thermonuclear War and sets of a chain reaction that nearly launches actual government missiles all over the world?  In the end, the missiles don't get launched, instea ... More >>

Year in Film: Grounded

Up in the Air director Jason Reitman has a good sense of where he's from and where he's headed.

Last Call For Art: Two Great Musicals, Expertly Done

​Two of the season's best stage productions close this weekend, The Phantom of the Opera by Broadway Across America and The Producers at Masquerade Theatre. Make sure you see at least one of them.First is Phantom. This is the Broadway touring company, of course. (The show arrived in Houston with t ... More >>

For Memorial Day, Part 3: Five Best War-Movie Deaths

Memorial Day is more than just a holiday to remember the over one million American men and women who have given their lives in service to their country. It's also a time to commemorate Hollywood's love of war. You'll have no problem finding marathons of Tora! Tora! Tora! and Sergeant York on TV, and ... More >>

R.I.P, Horton Foote

Horton Foote, the celebrated playwright who wrote a cycle of prominent plays about life in a fictionalized version of his hometown of Wharton, has died.The small town 50 miles southwest of Houston was fictionalized as Harrison in several Foote plays, such as 1918, later made into an underrated Matth ... More >>

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

In Memory Of Mr. Buck: Five Deer Who Fought Back

It takes a...special kind of person to confront a captive animal, kill it, and make off with its head. Brandon Gregory is such a person, and while we may wonder at his motives, we can at least take some comfort in the fact that the recently deceased Mr. Buck didn't go out like no punk bitch:During ... More >>

Attention Passengers: Forget Bush Intercontinental, Here Are The Five Best Karaoke Movie Scenes

If Buddha, Mohammed, and Jesus Christ joined hands and strolled down Westheimer turning automobiles into unicorns while singing "Blasphemous Rumors" I don't think it would get as much coverage as that infernal karaoke machine at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (including right here at Hair Bal ... More >>

Seven Deadly Sins: Celebrity Edition

Bee Movie

No wonder all the bees are dying — Seinfeld's movie is embarrassing

When the Stars Came Out

Necessary Evil

This Time It's Serious

Wars, Penguins and Gays: Oh, My!

The year in review

Springtime for Mel

Brooks's latest Producers is flawed, but it's better than the first

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Fresh Producers

The Broadway smash-hit continues to thrive with its new cast

Alan Ruck's Day On

A traveling production of The Producers stars Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Reality Bytes

The White House-cracking cybergang is gone. Now Houston’s most notorious hacker hopes to reboot his life and return to his love: computers.

Schmidt Happens

Nicholson disappears into a wondrous movie about quiet desperation

The Great EscApe

In two decades, Wally Swett's sanctuary has become a place of peace for primates - it's the humans that have him going bananas

Family Ties (That Bind)

At once unsentimental and amusing, You Can Count on Me delves into the darkness of dissimilar siblings

Exit Strategy

Deena Nichols organized everything in her life. And when life spun out of control, she organized her death.

Beyond Teens

Savvy Election shows ageless appeal

Monster Mash

Small, TV-sized minds and marketing overshadow special effects

Perfect Mess

What's wrong with this Picture? Everything.

One Angry Man

As Night Falls, Lumet proves even his failures possess spark

Scary Carrey

The Cable Guy reveals Jim Carrey's dark side -- but not enough of it

Dorothy Done Dirty

Enema of the People

It's a Wonderful Lottery

It Could Happen To You proves itself a winning ticket

A Lame, and Troubling, Lion

Disney's latest can't compare with its greatest