Tilda Swinton

Miss Pop Rocks Loves (the First Half of) the Oscars

Blue Thoughts

Can a film without pictures really be a film?

Gay Old Time

Can a film without pictures really be a film?

The Curious Case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Old Man Pitt

Intolerable Cruelty: Burn After Reading

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

The Golden Compass

Avoiding its anti-dogma roots, Golden Compass veers off-course

Michael Clayton

Watch your back, Grisham: Michael Clayton's no ordinary legal thriller

Digging in the Dirt

Watch your back, Grisham: Michael Clayton's no ordinary legal thriller

Lion in Winter

C.S. Lewis's world comes to life in The Chronicles of Narnia

The Opposite of Suck

Mike Mills's debut is smart, funny and gorgeously sad

On the Road Again

Jim Jarmusch offers up another quest story for hipsters, and they'll be pleased

Excess Hollywood

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

Hell to Pay

Constantine shuns its comic-book roots for real depth as Reeves returns in black

After the Fall

Temptation flourishes in the garden of Young Adam

Adapt This

If being Charlie Kaufman is no fun, watching Charlie Kaufman is a real drag

Losin' It

A host of first-timers lit up the screen in 2001

The Man, The Myth

Wandering Spain with the lone wolf of Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control.

Cinema Arts Festival Houston Nabs A Big Name

​The fledgling Cinema Arts Festival Houston has bagged a big name for the event: Tilda Swinton. (If Tilda Swinton isn't a big-enough name for you, you're probably not the type of movie fan who would appreciate the Cinema Arts Festival Houston.)Swinton, who's starred in Orlando and won an Oscar for ... More >>

Bring It On: The 2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston Starts Tonight

Photo by Sandra Koop​The 2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston is rolling out the red carpet as we speak, for today's opening night screenings.Over at the Angelika Film Center, the highly anticipated Precious starts at 7 p.m., while over at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the festival's opening nigh ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Emancipation Proclamation

Tilda Swinton's got to be free in I Am Love.

Teenage Mutant Ninja

Virtuoso filmmaking, retro ­politics in a crisp thriller.

Your 2011 Fall/Winter Movie Preview - Part 2

​You know the drill: the fall movie season starts today, my pretties (my review of Contagion will be up soon...there's a reason it didn't make the preview). Yesterday we covered the first half of 2011's most anticipated upcoming releases, determined through a rigorous scientific analysis consi ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Who Else Would Make A Good Bond Villain?

Jeez, when are they going to stop casting ugly actors in these Bond movies?​So it turns out Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristy Barcelona) is going up against 007 in Bond 23: After months of speculation about who would play the villain in the next James Bond installment, we fi ... More >>

The Film Issue

Jeez, when are they going to stop casting ugly actors in these Bond movies?​So it turns out Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristy Barcelona) is going up against 007 in Bond 23: After months of speculation about who would play the villain in the next James Bond installment, we fi ... More >>

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

Houston Film Critics Society: Best of 2011

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

Bad Mommy

Tilda Swinton and her problem child in We Need to Talk About Kevin.