Subject: Tom Cruise

• From Reverence to Rape in Defiance

  January 15, 2009

• But at Least the Guns Aren’t Gay…

  April 26, 2007

• Houstoned Theatre Presents: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Like You've Never Read Them Before

  April 9, 2008

• The Sucking Game

  Monsters that go dull in the night

  November 17, 1994

• Chewing the Fat

  Amanda Peet and her perfect choppers grind up the brainless suitors in Whipped

  August 31, 2000

• The Dome As Movie Studio -- Now On The Web

  October 21, 2008

• The Five Worst Movie Vampires

  With the release of Twilight, we're seeing a continuation of the metaphorical "defanging" of the vampire in modern culture. Vamps used to be terrifying creatures of the night, bent on evil and slaking their undead thirst. Now they're brooding fops who want to talk about their feelings. Here are five of the worst: 5. Maximillian -- Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) One assumes Angela Bassett fired her agent shortly after she appeared in this (though Tyler Perry movies are hardly a step up). And no

  November 21, 2008

• Five Worst Hangovers In The Movies

  The holidays are upon us, and whether you're dealing with 8-hour layovers at O'Hare or sleeping on your aunt's rollout bed with the bar that lays right across your sacroiliac joint or "entertaining" your brother and his brood of monstrous offspring, chances are you're going to drink. A lot. To help get you through those inevitable mornings after, here are some of our favorite memorable movie hangovers.5. Bad Santa (2003) This unquiet interlude pretty well sums up all of Billy Bob Thornton's rec

  December 26, 2008

• Mission: Irrelevant

  May 23, 1996

• Cruisified

  December 12, 1996

• As You Get Ready For South Padre: The Five Best Spring Break Movies

  Spring Break! Since time immemorial (or the mid-20th century, anyway) it's been a rite of passage for college students to spend their days on the beach, presenting their hindquarters to potential suitors, and their nights crammed into structurally unsound firetraps alongside hundreds of potential date rapists and venereal-disease vectors. Cherish those memories, if you still retain any.5. Where the Boys Are (1960) For a movie released when Americans only had missionary position sex while fully c

  March 11, 2009

• Cocktails and Dreams

  January 7, 1999

• For St. Patrick's Day: The Five Least Convincing Irishmen In Movies

  St. Patrick's Day is more than just an opportunity for amateur drunks to get in fights after drinking since noon, it's also when all of us claim (usually bogus) Irish heritage. I can personally trace my Irish ancestry back to the 17th century. Of course, they were Ulster Huguenots and probably not very beloved of the Blarney-kissing Papists so popularized during March 17th. So in honor of fake and unpopular Irish everywhere, here are some of the worst depictions of Irish characters in cinema:5.

  March 17, 2009

• Best Pool Hall

  September 21, 2000

• Risky Business for Valkyrie

  Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission

  December 25, 2008

• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

  Trey Parker and Matt Stone give their animated series the big-screen treatment

  November 20, 2008

• The Unthinkable

  In the Bedroom, a couple's anguish turns to rage and then rational madness

  December 27, 2001

• Mission 2: Successful

  With a head full of Notorious thoughts, director John Woo leads the charge in the visceral M:I-2

  June 1, 2000

• Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder

  Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

  August 14, 2008

• Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

  July 24, 2008

• Kat Not Included

  May 18, 2006

• Samurai!!! Japanese Film Festival

  The Japanese Film Festival fights its way onto the big screen

  March 27, 2008

• Rod Paige and Scientology, Margaret Thatcher at the Warwick, Pool Owners and Public Works

  Scientology rumors swirl

  January 24, 2008

• Lions for Lambs

  November 8, 2007

• Impossibly Passable

  November 2, 2006

• Turning Tricks

  September 14, 2006

• Kicking French Ass

  District B13 puts American action movies to shame

  June 1, 2006

• Abort

  Mission: Impossible III runs the franchise into the ground

  May 11, 2006

• Gross Encounters

  Spielberg's War hikes up the gore, and that ain't a bad thing

  June 30, 2005

• Excess Hollywood

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

  May 26, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  February 24, 2005

• Oscar Wild

  Roam the red carpet at the HGLFF's Academy Awards party

  February 24, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  November 4, 2004

• The Passion of the Cruise

  Me-sci-ah offers truth, celebrity and the Scientology way

  October 14, 2004

• Collateral Damaged

  When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't good

  August 5, 2004

• Slingin' Sauce

  The studs of suds raise the bar on their competition at Sherlock's

  July 29, 2004

• Metaphor Alert: Bright Red

  Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

  March 4, 2004

• White Dork Down

  Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords

  December 4, 2003

• Who Are Those Puckers?

  Air hockey gets serious

  March 13, 2003

• Blowin' Smoke

  Biker Boyz is furious, but it ain't fast, which is a real drag

  January 30, 2003

• Vanity Fare

  Ray Liotta wants to know why he loses roles to...Owen Wilson?

  January 9, 2003

• The Wayback Machine

  Cosmos's Rum Dummy

  August 15, 2002

• Duh Press

  Fear and self-loathing at the Minority Report junket

  June 20, 2002

• Report Card

  Spielberg's Minority Report gets good grades until the end

  June 20, 2002

• Eyes Half Open

  Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

  December 13, 2001

• Boneheaded

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

  March 30, 2000

• Short Cuts

  Director borrows from the Robert Altman stylebook to create his Magnolia "masterpiece"

  January 6, 2000

• Sad Finale

  Eyes Wide Shut comes up short as Kubrick's last effort

  July 15, 1999

• They All Look Alike To The Chronicle

  Perusing the "Hot Ticket" spread in this week's Chronicle's Preview section, we came across this little doozy of a mislabeled photo:The caption reads, in part, "Trombone Shorty (pictured here in Guitar Shorty mode) and Orleans Avenue will headline A Gulf Coast Juneteenth...7 p.m. Friday at Miller Outdoor Theatre"No mode about it, that is in fact a picture of Guitar Shorty, a pint-sized blues guitar shredder who had a long residency on the Richmond Strip back in that now-woebegone party zone's `9

  June 18, 2009

• The Fabulous Thunderbirds

  November 5, 2009