Subject: Tom Cruise

  • Film

    January 15, 2009
  • Blogs

    April 26, 2007
  • Film

    November 17, 1994

    The Sucking Game

    Monsters that go dull in the night

  • Film

    August 31, 2000

    Chewing the Fat

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

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    The Dome As Movie Studio -- Now On The Web

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

  • Blogs

    December 26, 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 ... More >>

  • Film

    May 23, 1996

    Mission: Irrelevant

    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 ... More >>

  • Film

    December 12, 1996

    Cruisified

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    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 da ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 7, 1999

    Cocktails and Dreams

    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 da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    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 v ... More >>

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000

    Best Pool Hall

    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 v ... More >>

  • Film

    December 25, 2008

    Risky Business for Valkyrie

    Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission

  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

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

  • Film

    December 27, 2001

    The Unthinkable

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

  • Film

    June 1, 2000

    Mission 2: Successful

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

  • Film

    August 14, 2008

    Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder

    Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

  • Film

    July 24, 2008

    Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

    Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2006

    Kat Not Included

    Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2008

    Samurai!!! Japanese Film Festival

    The Japanese Film Festival fights its way onto the big screen

  • News

    January 24, 2008
  • Home Entertainment

    November 2, 2006

    Impossibly Passable

    Scientology rumors swirl

  • Home Entertainment

    September 14, 2006

    Turning Tricks

    Scientology rumors swirl

  • Film

    June 1, 2006

    Kicking French Ass

    District B13 puts American action movies to shame

  • Film

    May 11, 2006

    Abort

    Mission: Impossible III runs the franchise into the ground

  • Film

    June 30, 2005

    Gross Encounters

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

  • Culture

    May 26, 2005

    Excess Hollywood

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

  • Culture

    February 24, 2005

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Calendar

    February 24, 2005

    Oscar Wild

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

  • Culture

    November 4, 2004

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2004

    The Passion of the Cruise

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

  • Film

    August 5, 2004

    Collateral Damaged

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

  • Calendar

    July 29, 2004

    Slingin' Sauce

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

  • Film

    March 4, 2004

    Metaphor Alert: Bright Red

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

  • Film

    December 4, 2003

    White Dork Down

    Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2003

    Who Are Those Puckers?

    Air hockey gets serious

  • Film

    January 30, 2003

    Blowin' Smoke

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

  • Culture

    January 9, 2003

    Vanity Fare

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

  • Dining

    August 15, 2002

    The Wayback Machine

    Cosmos's Rum Dummy

  • Culture

    June 20, 2002

    Duh Press

    Fear and self-loathing at the Minority Report junket

  • Film

    June 20, 2002

    Report Card

    Spielberg's Minority Report gets good grades until the end

  • Film

    December 13, 2001

    Eyes Half Open

    Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

  • Film

    March 30, 2000

    Boneheaded

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

  • Film

    January 6, 2000

    Short Cuts

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

  • Film

    July 15, 1999

    Sad Finale

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

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    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 Ou ... More >>

  • Music

    November 5, 2009

    The Fabulous Thunderbirds

    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 Ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2010

    Game Time: Areans Vs. Crittenton In Pistols...And We're Off And Running In 2010

    ​Happy New Year to all of you. Quick question -- what is the record for breaking a New Year's Resolution that doesn't involve alcohol, drugs or sex? Because I just ate a Chipwich for breakfast...just wondering. Well, 2010 is here, and that means we get to hit the reset button on "Surreal Story of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    He Said She Said: Songs That Make Us Feel Like a Man, Baby!

    Mad Men's Christina Hendricks makes us feel like a man in the best possible way...​He Said's view of manhood wasn't built on sweat and labor the way most guys would probably say. Early on in our musical journey, we always equated music to being sleazy and slithery, or just dancing. It makes sense ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Pop Rocks: Win A Couples Retreat DVD, And Discover The Five Best Paradise-Gone-Bad Movies

    ​A tropical retreat sounds pretty good right about now, as Houston begins yet another in a seemingly unending series of cold (well, relatively), rainy weeks. Unfortunately, in this economy the odds are slim that any of you can afford to just drop everything and jet off to Antigua for a weekend.As ... More >>

  • More >>

Most …

  • Teflon Man
    Now playing in River Oaks, Gary Ross has stayed one step ahead of trouble and judgments across the country.
  • Meatball on 34th Street
    Doyle's is a 1950s Italian-American time capsule.
  • Music Cities
    Texas has its own brand of March Madness
  • Meat and Potatoes
    Frank's Chop House stands firmly in the middle of the road.
  • Blog Stars
    Ten local sites that rock our world