Ron Howard

Aw, Nuts

A brief history of movie characters getting whacked in the balls.

#MadeInAmerica: The Rain, Restrictions & Randomness of Day 2

Day two of the first-ever Made In America music festival felt considerably less hectic and crowded than day one. The blazing heat of the previous day was replaced with scattered showers, and the humidity that follows, making for a sticky and slippery situation on the Ben Franklin Parkway. The crowd ... More >>

The Week in TV: The Muppets Now Control Everything

Not much happened last week, what with everyone taking extra naps and blaming it on the turkey. Still, it wasn't a totally uneventful week in TV Land: • Having been dragged back into the mainstream spotlight by Jason Segel, the Muppets are now eyeing a return to TV, the medium that first brought ... More >>

Wildfire Relief: The 8 Best Firefighter Movies

​This wildfire stuff is getting ridiculous. The entire state of Texas is experiencing drought, categorized as "extreme" or "exceptional" in 95 percent of the state. Severe lack of rain high winds and high pressure = the fires currently ravaging Bastrop and Montgomery counties. Firefighters ... More >>

Michael Cera: We Don't Get Him. Help Us Learn Why We Should, And Win Preview Passes To Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Michael Cera: What are we missing here?​Maybe it's just a low tolerance for indie-movie tweeness, but we have to admit the charms of Michael Cera largely escape us.Now we freely admit we haven't seen Year One, so there's a chance that our admiration for his subtle comedic skills might yet be awake ... More >>

For Inception: Bad Dream Sequences In Good Movies

Inception is getting good reviews as a dream-based thriller, but there are plenty of examples of perfectly good movies or shows being ruined, or at least temporarily harmed, by dream sequences.Among them:1. The Sopranos with that damn Kevin Finnerty Tony gets shot and then the wheels come off. We g ... More >>

Chron's Feelings Are Hurt

HBO drama didn't celebrate Houston as best-est place.

SXSW As It Happens: Riot Grrrl Royalty, Bloody Drums, SXSW Parable, Portajohns And Quasi Kicks Ass

Brandon K. Hernsberger5:10 p.m.: "Quasi. Straight up rock and roll that smells like tacos and brisket and spilled Lone Star on kicked-up indie dirt."​ Brittanie Shey, 5:03 p.m.: "I'm at Kill Rock Stars, and if she weren't too cool for school my inner 15-year-old would be freaking out. Riot grrrl r ... More >>

The Best and Worst Christmas Specials of All Time

Every winter brings the onslaught of family tension, shopping, and that most American of pastimes, the Christmas special. They're typically half an hour, though they can be longer, and they often take characters from an already-established world and run them through the gauntlet of festivities surro ... More >>

American Graffiti Car Show

Drive yourself back to 1973

Modern-Day Jedis - or Wannabe Jedis - In Pop Music

​"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times... before the Empire." - Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Sounds pretty impressive, doesn't it? Almost like there somebody had put together a detailed, well thought-out s ... More >>

Spacefest: 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Houston, we have a celebration

Angels & Demons with Tom Hanks

Another treat for whacked-out male conspiracy theorists

Bill Hicks, Still Dead 15 Years Later

Wholly influential and ridiculously honest stand-up comic Bill Hicks died fifteen years ago today, succumbing to lung cancer. Ironically he had always opined that that was how he would meet his end. Smoking seemed to be his obsession and he was rarely seen onstage not puffing away. The comedian move ... More >>

Yes Man Repackages Jim Carrey's Greatest Hits, Which Maybe Weren't So Great to Start With

Just Say No

Nixon in a Deep Frost

Langella and Sheen capture a summit of egos as Frost/Nixon goes from stage to screen

Frost/Nixon

Katie vs. Sarah ain't nothing - see this smash London play for the real debate

Not so Bad: "Horton Hears a Who!

After the unspeakable Grinch, Horton is a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

When the Stars Came Out

Burr...He's Ice-Cold

Cracked Code

Da Vinci's leap to the screen leaves no room for surprise

Monkey Business

Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long

Sweat Along with Russell

Broke, But Not Broken

With Cinderella Man, Ron Howard finally scores a knockout

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

Deep Impact

A documentary revisits the moment when porn went mainstream

Deep Impact

A documentary revisits the moment when porn went mainstream

Indian Giver

The Missing misses plenty, except ancient prejudices

Opie Hendrix & The Texas Tallboys

San Jacinto (Def-Texan Records)

Proof Positive

David Auburn's stunning script tells a tale of genius and madness, of father and daughter

Can't Buy a Thrill

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

Music Awards 2001

A preview of this year's show

We'll All Cry Boo-Hoo

Ron Howard's cuddly new Grinch puzzles our puzzler till our puzzler's puzzled out

Andy, Opie and the Almighty

A church searches for God in the good Mr. Griffith's TV series

Inside the Soap Box

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

Reel Time

EDtv tries to upstage Truman on TV's impact

Night & Day

August 27 - September 2, 1998

Night & Day

April 2-8, 1998

Press Picks

Mel as Mogul

Gibson's star power drives Ransom

The Insider

The Year in Film

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

Moonstruck

Both corny and inspiring, Apollo 13 is about more than a space mission

The Write Stuff

Houston's Al Reinert spins a tale of his hometown for the big screen

The Paper Delivers

Cormanosaur

Dinosaurs Run Amuck Again, This Time B-Movie Style