Steven Spielberg

Hollywood: Enough with the Father-Son Dramas, Already!

Tom Cruise Can Still Be Great — Why Aren’t His Movies?

The 12 Finest Trees In Texas: A Photo Tour Of The State's Pretty, Historic, Beloved Live Oaks & More

Texans love their trees, whether they're being used for climbing, or getting some desperately needed August shade, or as a easy-to-remember landmark for locals making plans to meet each other. To be sure there are some less peaceful uses of trees in Texas history: lynching, sniping, chaining people ... More >>

Throw Back

Catch Me If You Can has loads of action, but the story's a little thin.

Hansel & Gretel Too Much Candy

Fear a steady diet of movies like Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critic's Poll

Movies are alive in the Age of McConaughey.

David Koepp at the End of Civilization

The writer/director on filming in NYC, George Romero and saying no to bad script notes.

Wait a Minute! Who Is That? Top 10 Videos With Famous Actor Cameos

When you are an actor, you take basically whatever will feed you just as long as you get to perform. Many actors either got their start in music videos or they will appeared in one after they got famous. Oftentimes, they are pretty memorable.

Lawrence of Arabia

Men in Black Goes Back in Time

For President's Day: The Best Movie Portrayals of 15 Presidents

Portraying presidents on screen is always tricky. Crass imitation makes the thing look like a comedy skit, but completely ignoring the mannerisms and voice that people know doesn't work either. There have been some laughingly inept acting jobs when it comes to the 44 people who have been the countr ... More >>

NBC's Smash Just Might Be a Hit

Smash, the newest hopeful for an NBC success, premiered last night, and the Peacock network may have a potential hit on their hands. The show attempts to capitalize on America's latest (returned) obsession with the musical genre and has brought in some heavy hitters to assist. That it's produced by ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Why the Long Face? Eight Famous Horses We'd Like to Eat

Were you thinking horse meat was going to stay off the menu in American restaurants indefinitely? Neigh: Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a five-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be u ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The "Mane" Course -- Eight Famous Horses We'd Like To Eat

Were you thinking horse meat was going to stay off the menu in American restaurants indefinitely? Neigh: Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up a ... More >>

Real Steel

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Love 'Em Robots

We Want to Dine with These Five Dead Famous People

Consummate hostess: Dolley Madison.​5. Dolley Madison. Forget about Martha Stewart. As First Lady, Madison took the role of hostess to a whole new level, earning accolades for her brilliant dress, witty conversation, and terrific dinner menus. And she had moxie as well domestic graces: She off ... More >>

Oscar Night 2011: The Live Blog!

​We are only less than three hours out from bringing you live-blogging coverage, right here, of this year's Academy Awards, and we are more than excited to take you through the night for every win, loss, awful dress, awesome dress, foible, and foul-up Hollywood throws our way.

“Manuel Miranda: Nearly Human. Nearly Animal”

Death by Eastwood

Saint Clint chokes the life out of Hereafter.

A Preview Of The 2010 WorldFest, And A Chance To Win Big And See Stuff For Free

The 43rd annual WorldFest kicks off this Friday. The "fiercely independent" film festival is one of the oldest international fests in the country, and the oldest independent festival in the world. Many directors you may have heard of received their first awards here, including Steven Spielberg, Joh ... More >>

The Week in TV: We Can Only Mock the Living

​It's almost Christmas, I'm tired of shopping, and I keep yelling "sharkfarts" at everyone. This was the week in TV Land: • Most of the major shows and networks were in repeats this week, which threw my viewing habits off a bit. It's not like I only watch the big four networks; in fact, I ... More >>

The Color Purple Comes Back To Finish Its Ike-Shortened Run

Photo by Paul KolnikHSPVA's Kristopher Thompson-Bolden, on the far left with the white neckerchief. Last year, one of the casualties of Hurricane Ike was The Color Purple's national-tour stopover in Houston. It was supposed to be here for a two-week run, but that was halved thanks to the post-s ... More >>

From Reverence to Rape in Defiance

Hollywood plunders meaning from the Holocaust – again

Jurassic Park

You’re in trouble when you have to ask, “Is that a meat-a-saurus?”

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

A former kid genius who re-created the Spielberg classic comes to the Aurora Picture Show

The Force Is Strong With This One

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.

Christian Bale

What won't the best actor of his generation do for a role? Not much.

Transformers

As giant robots transform all around us (!), it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Get Gertie

A man wants a Date with Drew, and he's not a stalker ... really

Excess Hollywood

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

Walking Tall

Jack Massing of the Art Guys sports a new pair of kicks

Do the Indie Thing

WorldFest celebrates the obscure

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Signs of Faith

Mel Gibson has a close encounter with God -- or just a mean E.T.

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Los Gringos Locos

Julia Roberts's and Brad Pitt's performances go straight south in The Mexican

Broken and Battered

How the twist ending left M. Night Shyamalan twisting in the breeze

Roadkill

Remember American Pie? This is the same Trip.

Hungarian Horror

Talking heads handicap the opening of this Holocaust documentary

The Sound of Money

Fantastic Antics

A Bug's Life brings out the best of Pixar's new breed

Letters

No Going Forward

Edward Burns hasn't improved with practice

New Studio, Same Old Stuff

DreamWorks's first film is a conventional tale of glam and guns

Galactic Mediocrity

Men in Black thinks small and tries too hard

That's a Wrap

And the year ends with a surprise twist: fall movies that are falling flat