Michael Douglas

Cannes: Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra is a Delightful Little Curio

Traffic Jams: Five Songs Guaranteed to Induce Road Rage

Marconi, Tesla, Steve Jobs and some other folks we rarely mention should be elevated to hero status for creating the means and devices we turn to while spending hours in traffic. Groups that geek out on such stats suggest at least ten percent of Americans spend about 90 minutes a day behind the w ... More >>

Kester Havard is Mad As Hell: Armed, Demands of Sheriff's Office "Do Your Fucking Job"

Sometimes, you just can't take it anymore. Whether you are the guy in Network or Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down, there's a point where every man reaches his breaking point. It's at that time that he must take matters into his own hands, even if that includes taking a loaded gun, a video ... More >>

Park City's Breakouts

The movies to know from Sundance - and the year ahead.

Odd Couple

She fights like a guy, he grooms like a girl: Gina Carano and Channing Tatum make a good match in Haywire.

Girl Fight

Steven Soderbergh and his MMA star make impact with Haywire.

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 >>

Reviews for the Easily Distracted:
Shame

Title: Shame What Is He Ashamed Of? Not walking around naked, I tell you what. Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: Four JFKs out of five. Brief Plot Synopsis: NYC sex addict's life of meaningless fornicating is interrupted by the arrival of his possibly unhinged sister. Tagline: ... More >>

Pop Rocks: By the Dumb's Early Light

Apu chose an alternate path to citizenship​There's a scene in The American President -- Aaron Sorkin's pre-West Wing exercise in wishful liberalism -- when President Shepherd (Michael Douglas) describes America as "advanced citizenship." It's a nice thought, especially in the fantastical conte ... More >>

Photobombs Through the Ages

The pinnacle of modern-day photobombing​Photobombing might have reached its peak at the Golden Globes when Michael Douglas PB'd his way into a picture with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angelina Jolie. The phenomenon has become popular on the internet, of course, and as with everything el ... More >>

Wall Street Bailout

Stone's sequel lets the bad guys off easy.

Meet The Rhodes Kids, Houston's Mobbed-Up '70s Family Band

​The early 70's was a glorious time for the "family showband." The Cowsills started it all a few years earlier, and the lifestyle was soon immortalized on the screen by the fictionalized Partridge Family. But for every group like the Osmonds or the Jackson 5, there were dozens of others, perha ... More >>

Game Time: Cranking Up The Skank-O-Meter, Your 2009 Boggsies

​It's December 23, and thus 'tis the season of "Best Of..." lists and "[fill in noun here] of the Year" rundowns. Bonus points for any year ending in the number 9 because that means we also get (drum roll please)....DECADE LISTS!! I am a total sucker for stuff like this; it's mindless, it's pointl ... More >>

For National Boss Day: The Five Most Misundrestoor Bosses In The Movies

It's National Boss Day, because apparently getting more weeks of vacation, a higher salary, and an actual office with privacy isn't enough. You can be forgiven if it slipped your mind. After all, you were probably busy using the phone in your cramped, depressing cubicle to argue semi-publicly with ... More >>

The Haunting in Rhode Island

Matthew McConaughey is scary bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.

Is She Really The "Heidi Fleiss of Houston"?

Photo courtesy HCSOSometimes one flip remark transforms things.One Houston cop calls a woman "The Heidi Fleiss of Houston," and the media goes nuts (Hey, including us.)But we're really not convinced Debbie Turbiville is up to Heidi Fleiss's standards.Until we see Joel Osteen's name on a credit-card ... More >>

Five Movie Presidents Worse Than W.

The King of Kong, Monty Python's Life of Brian: The Immaculate Edition, King of California, Automatons

Miss Pop Rocks Has the Flu

Grace Is Gone

A Marine mom dies in Iraq

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

The Brave One

Leaping thugs in a single bound, our Brave leading lady takes back the night

Steven Hotze and William Rea, Sitting in a Tree…

Black Book

Back home in Holland, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft a slick Holocaust thriller

Freeloader

You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome

The Kids in America

When the working day is done, Molly & the Ringwalds just want to have fun

Back Door to History

Thank J.R. Quinn for the gay celebrations

The In-(F)laws

This Douglas-Brooks remake is bigger and broader, but not better

Kill Shot

Neil Burger fabricates Kennedy's Assassin, and he's mostly on target

Can't Buy a Thrill

Don't Say a Word has the budget, but not the brains, to chill us

Object of Desire

Liv Tyler toys with the tongue-hanging boys in One Night at McCool's

War Games

With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes an unblinking look at America's drug policies

Better in Pairs

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

The Man of Ink

Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero

Writer's Blah

Wonder Boys, an insipid tale about a depressed author, could use a few more exclamation points

Closet Case

In & Out goes both ways -- funny and funnier

Losing It

All work and no play make this a gloomy Game

Going Down

Air Force One nose-dives into an ocean of ennui

The Year in Film

Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)

Hot and Bothersome

Though hooey on harassment, Disclosure knows how to entertain

Extended Labor

Martha Coolidge and Geena Davis are slow to develop the promise of Angie