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Oliver Stone

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Happy 99th Birthday, Richard Nixon: Great Pop Culture Nixons

    Today Richard Nixon would have turned 99 years old, though he passed on to the big country club in the sky back in April 1994, at the age of 81. His wife Pat passed on the year previous, and Nixon was active until the end of his life, still making appearances and granting interviews, as the stains o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Happy Birthday, Jim Morrison: Top 5 Songs About the Lizard King

    ​We've always felt a deep connection with Jim Morrison, so much so that we'd rather read No One Here gets Out Alive than listen to any one Doors song. The poet and legendary front man left us far too soon, and in his wake is a wealth of stories and music that continues to echo down and find an ... More >>

  • Film

    November 10, 2011

    Great Man Theories

    Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century in J. Edgar.

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Charlie Sheen: A Guide to His Porn Stars (Some Are From Texas!)

    Actor Charlie Sheen is either a true American hero or a drug-addicted, porn-obsessed monster, depending on who you ask. The Two and a Half Men star and one-time Oliver Stone muse was admitted to the hospital with extreme stomach pains in his most recent incident. That all came on the heels of what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Brian Tuohy's The Fix Is In: Nothing In Sports Is As It Seems

    OTOH, maybe the fix isn't in​As hard as it might be to believe, every Super Bowl since 1996 has been fixed. No, not fixed by gamblers or players trying to throw the game. But instead fixed by the NFL. Sure it sounds a bit far-fetched, but that's the allegation made by Brian Tuohy in his book, The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    For San Jacinto Day: Five Victories More Lopsided Than The Texas Army's

    ​I probably didn't need to remind you that today is the 174th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, where Sam Houston led the Texas Army to victory over the forces of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. The battle brought an end to the bloody Texas Revolution, and made siestas unfashiona ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Big Willie Style: The Red Headed Stranger at the Movies

    Honeysuckle Rose This weekend at the Woodlands comes one of the most prolific trios of artists to ever appear on the same bill. Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp converge on the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion for what looks to be one of those landmark shows people brag about catching, k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Playing Neil Armstrong On The Screen: The "Jesus Curse," Redux

    Photo by NASAIn the old days of Hollywood, they used to talk of "the Jesus Curse" -- any actor who played JC on screen was thereafter soomed to obscurity.Does the same thing happen to actors who play Neil Armstrong? There aren't as many Apollo 11 movies as you might expect, but the evidence still is ... More >>

  • News

    July 16, 2009
  • News

    December 18, 2008

    Drive-Thru Prayer

    Jesus is a convenient guy

  • Film

    October 12, 2006

    Voter Fraud

    Barry Levinson wags the dog again, but his bark is worse than his bite

  • Film

    December 29, 2005

    Little Misses

    Introducing the best movies of 2005 you probably didn't see

  • News

    February 10, 2005

    The Smartest Film at Sundance

    Alex Gibney tells the story of Enron's rise and fall -- and you won't need an economics degree to understand it

  • News

    January 1, 2004

    Harvard and the Boogeyman

    Will it be the Aeros' brawler or brainiac who gets to the NHL?

  • Calendar

    December 11, 2003

    Still Toxie After All These Years

    Lloyd Kaufman's gross-out Troma Studios has a long history of setting the pace for mainstream movies

  • Culture

    February 6, 2003

    The Pain Train

    Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

  • Culture

    February 21, 2002

    Dead Cats

    Hecker's cartoons stretch from hope to despair

  • Film

    January 24, 2002

    Hero and Villain

    Miguel Piñero, and the film about him, capture the beautiful and the ugly

  • Film

    December 27, 2001

    Sting Like a Bee

    Ali lands some solid blows, but sadly it's no knockout

  • Film

    March 8, 2001

    Empty Visions

    The Caveman believes in things that do not exist. The filmmakers do the same.

  • Culture

    August 24, 2000

    The Bit Player

    Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

  • Music

    August 3, 2000

    Americana Psychos

    Mixing Nashville craft with gothic content, David Olney is a songwriter's songwriter

  • Film

    March 30, 2000

    Boneheaded

    If it only had a brain: The Skulls struggles to form an original thought

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Letters

    From the February 24, 2000 issue

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Larger Than Life

    Anna Nicole Smith fights for a fortune as her past erupts

  • Film

    October 29, 1998

    All in Vein

    Clichs are the real killers in the anemic action film Vampires

  • Film

    August 6, 1998

    Snakes Alive

    De Palma and Cage craft a creepy thriller

  • Film

    April 9, 1998

    Travels with Mikey

    Michael Moore's liberal heart is in the right place. But what about his head?

  • Film

    January 1, 1998

    The Albanian Candidate

    Wag the Dog bares its teeth at the White House

  • Film

    August 7, 1997

    But What If the Nuts Are Right?

    Conspiracy Theory offers a new action hero: the addled Everyman

  • Film

    July 17, 1997

    Shtick-Up

    Robbins and Lawrence make something out of Nothing

  • Film

    January 16, 1997

    Manhattan Melodies

    In Woody's world, everyone erupts into show tunes

  • Film

    January 9, 1997

    Porn Again

    Larry Flynt the movie does something Larry Flynt the man wouldn't: It fails to go all the way

  • Film

    June 13, 1996

    Big Bang Theory

    The Rock tests the hypothesis that moviegoers like 'em fast, splashy and loud

  • Film

    February 1, 1996

    Crippled Inside

    Shakespeare's most malevolent monarch is marvelously remade for the movies

  • News

    May 11, 1995

    Dear Landlord

    Quakers face the wrath of Lee Harvey Oswald's "godfather"

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    Letters

    Quakers face the wrath of Lee Harvey Oswald's "godfather"

  • Film

    December 22, 1994

    Low Fashion

    Robert Altman's Ready to Wear is all dressed up with nowhere to go

  • Film

    October 13, 1994

    Pulped Fiction

    Quentin Tarantino talks his sophomore film into an early grave

  • Calendar

    July 21, 1994

    Press Picks

    Quentin Tarantino talks his sophomore film into an early grave

  • Film

    December 16, 1993

    Wayne's World 2

    Quentin Tarantino talks his sophomore film into an early grave

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