Subject: Motion Picture Association of America

• Violence, TV and Demagoguery

  December 2, 1993

• Child Abuse

  August 31, 1995

• Woo? Wow!

  John Woo's latest isn't his best, but he still leads the action pack

  February 15, 1996

• Archer's Way

  April 11, 1996

• Show Bees-ness

  November 21, 1996

• Jack Valenti, Gay Blade?

  Was the late Jack Valenti -- famous Houstonian, former Lyndon Johnson aide, former head of Hollywood's MPAA, namesake of the Valenti School of Communications at UH -- as gay as a Sondheim song?We don't care one way or the other, but it appears the FBI did.The Washington Post reports this morning that through a Freedom of Information Act request, they got their hands on files showing J. Edgar Hoover (Irony Alert? Self-loathing gay alert?) investigated rumors that Valenti hosted gay parties in Hou

  February 19, 2009

• Love Conflicts -- Nailing Neil

  August 27, 1998

• Remembrance of Demons Past in The Unborn

  January 8, 2009

• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

  Trey Parker and Matt Stone give their animated series the big-screen treatment

  November 20, 2008

• Movie Pirates

  That couple in the back row — they're making out big time, but not in the way you think

  March 20, 2008

• Be Kind Rewind Is a Muddle

  Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking, but comes up short, stale and flat

  February 21, 2008

• The Year In Film

  Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

  December 27, 2007

• The Reel Truth

  Hollywood claims the sky is falling. To which we say Puh-lease.

  December 22, 2005

• Strange Brew

  The Truth is, Egoyan's latest is B-movie noir, with killer performances

  October 27, 2005

• Nailed by the Cops

  A fashionable burglar gets nabbed

  April 28, 2005

• Constricted

  A PG-13 rating squeezes the life out of Anacondas

  August 26, 2004

• Rites of Spring

  Bernardo Bertolucci revisits young love with The Dreamers

  February 19, 2004

• Acting Their Age

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

  December 11, 2003

• Half and Half

  Kill Bill's missing something -- like, oh, a proper ending

  October 9, 2003

• Reel War

  The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

  October 18, 2001

• Fever Dream

  Aronofsky creates the ultimate horror flick for the modern era: A searing depiction of drug addiction

  November 16, 2000

• Middle-Age Crazy

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

  May 11, 2000

• J'Accuse!

  June 11, 2009