Robert De Niro

Speaking English and Mother Love

Fathers & Sons in Suck City

Being Flynn can't stop telling us exactly what to feel.

Fathers & Sons in Suck City

Being Flynn can't stop telling us exactly what to feel.

Egg Cream: "Y'all Talking to Me?"

John KielyYou Bet​Nothing could be more purely Brooklyn, New York than an egg cream, right? The drink, yes, but there's something suspicious about the name of the required chocolate syrup, Fox's U-bet. Who says that in New York? I wonder how long Robert De Niro's career would've been delaye ... More >>

Friday: Bun B, Lupe Fiasco & Lola Monroe Hail Trae Day

Photos by Shea Serrano​Trae Day feat. Trae Tha Truth, Bun B, Lupe Fiasco, Lola Monroe, Jay'Ton, Pyrexx, etc. Delmar/Dyer Sports Complex July 22, 2011 5:01 p.m.:Pulling up to the fourth annual Trae Day. Good crowd already. Good. Some immediate questions: First, How long will it be before you ... More >>

Valley of the Dolls

One pill makes you smarter in a one-note movie.

Cover Story: Connecting H Gallery to Three Prominent Recent Art Scams

​This week's feature is the account of an alleged art heist conducted by an art gallery in the Heights. Over a dozen local and Texas artists claim that Heidi Powell-Prera and her mother Sandy Bernstein, the owner/operators of H Gallery on West 19th Street, have been scamming artists for the la ... More >>

2000 - 2010: A DECADE TO FORGET

How Things Went Downhill

Machete's Potential Tax Incentives Rile Conservatives

Texas tax breaks for THIS? Tea Party unite!​Machete, the bloody, gory, spoofy film by Robert Rodriguez, has become the latest mini-scandal de jour for conservatives.Why? Because it might get tax breaks from Texas, and it portrays a race war that favors immigrants over right-wing politicians like t ... More >>

Blades of Gory

When it's not LOL-funny, ­Robert Rodriguez's Machete is downright dull.

Game Time: The Longhorn Network -- A Few Programming Ideas

Tonight at 8: Bevo Gone Wild​I often think how cool it must have been to have the first fast-food restaurant in a given town. You plunk down your McDonald's, start flipping about a thousand burgers an hour (quantity over quality when you're that busy), and watch the money roll in.And then Bu ... More >>

Krayolas Attack Arizona Immigration Law On "I'm Your Dirty Mexican"

myspace.com/thekrayolas​ San Antonio Tex-Mex garage-rockers the Krayolas, who sharpened their political claws on the Little Steven-endorsed "Corrido (Twelve Heads In a Bag)," have set their sights on Arizona's controversial anti-immigration law on the band's new single "1070 (I'm Your Dirty Mexica ... More >>

Five Great Examples Of Scorsese Using Rock Music, And A Chance to Win Free Shutter Island Passes

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island opens next week -- check at the end of this item for a chance to win preview passes -- and the question is, what's the soundtrack gonna be?If there's one guy who knows how to blend classic rock into a movie, it's Scorsese. Shutter Island, of course, looks to be more ... More >>

Get Lit: Three More for That Already Groaning Springsteen Bookshelf

Daniel KramerThe Big Man, the Boss and Mighty Max Weinberg at Toyota Center, April 2009​ Just as Bruce Springsteen winds down a frenzied period of back-to-back album and tour marathon - despite the death of Springsteen's cousin/assistant tour manager earlier this week in Kansas City, he and the E ... More >>

Akon: Freedom

Daniel KramerThe Big Man, the Boss and Mighty Max Weinberg at Toyota Center, April 2009​ Just as Bruce Springsteen winds down a frenzied period of back-to-back album and tour marathon - despite the death of Springsteen's cousin/assistant tour manager earlier this week in Kansas City, he and the E ... More >>

Astros-Cubs: What, Is It Raining Everywhere?

Daniel KramerThe Big Man, the Boss and Mighty Max Weinberg at Toyota Center, April 2009​ Just as Bruce Springsteen winds down a frenzied period of back-to-back album and tour marathon - despite the death of Springsteen's cousin/assistant tour manager earlier this week in Kansas City, he and the E ... More >>

MLB Playoffs: the God Squad vs. the FSM?

Daniel KramerThe Big Man, the Boss and Mighty Max Weinberg at Toyota Center, April 2009​ Just as Bruce Springsteen winds down a frenzied period of back-to-back album and tour marathon - despite the death of Springsteen's cousin/assistant tour manager earlier this week in Kansas City, he and the E ... More >>

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

Wars, Penguins and Gays: Oh, My!

The year in review

Hope Floats

Get out to the Pride Parade

Rage Against the Macho

Patty Jenkins and Charlize Theron give birth to a Monster

Vig's Eleven

Edward Burns rounds up the all-stars for a Confidence game

Psychic Gothline

Find out what the late Ian Curtis thinks about Interpol. No, really.

Simulation Number One

Simone teaches us an important lesson: Movies aren't real, duh

Pie Kids

How two American filmmakers made a very British Boy

Life As a Sappy Movie

Irwin Winkler builds a rickety House out of saccharine

Too Green

Comedian's amateurish directorial debut offers the same sophomoric jokes as his TV show

Important Imports

The U.K.'s Travis is big in Europe really

The Bit Player

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

Tobacco Toad

Mann elevates The Insider to Oscar-level suspense

Blunt Object

A not-subtle but unsettling Joe the King exposes child abuse

Mortal Soul

Scorsese and Cage elevate the EKG of the mean streets

Rap Actor

LL Cool J rocks microphone, silver screen

Mickey Mouse

Go hide. Hugh Grant's in a gangster movie.

To Bloom Again

Quiet, intellectual John Bloom transformed himself through his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, into a drive-in-movie critic on TV. Now a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself.

French Originals

A new film festival displays the latest in Gallic cinema

Death Becomes Her

A new film festival displays the latest in Gallic cinema

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Coal-Colored Glasses

Atom Egoyan, Canada's poet laureate of cinematic gloom, courts mainstream popularity

The Sucking Game

Monsters that go dull in the night