Tom Cruise

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

Oblivion: A Boy and His Drone

Tom Cruise's Oblivion is grand until it's not.

Tom Cruise Reaches

As the strapping Jack Reacher, the star scores.

Corporate Rock Still Sucks

Rock of Ages posits Tom Cruise as a hair-metal god and hair metal as something un-awful.

Where Are We Drinking?

Our New Year's resolution was to learn how to bartend like Tom Cruise in Cocktail. What was yours? ​Leave us alone. We're still working on it. Just guess the bar in the comments section below.

Five Reasons Facebook's Facial Recognition Feature is a Bad Idea

And you thought this was just some lame Tom Cruise joint.​Last week, Facebook finally launched its much-anticipated facial recognition software designed, at least they claim, to aid in tagging photos of you. Immediately, concerns over privacy were raised and justifiably so. In a world where vi ... More >>

The Oprah Finale: Five Ways To Improve It

That's quite the treasury​Believe us when we tell you we are not Guy Who Never Watches TV. But somehow we've never seen an Oprah show. Of course, we've seen YouTube clips of Tom Cruise jumping up and down, and we're sure we saw snatches here and there in a waiting room or something. But that ... More >>

You Talkin' to Me? Seven Musical Moments in Martin Scorsese Films

​We scoured the Internet, like we do for at least nine hours a day, for an excuse to embed Scorsese clips into one, organized blog post. Lucky for us, we found that timeliness was applicable: the 35th anniversary edition of Taxi Driver is out on Blu-Ray! We'll probably stick to our used copy t ... More >>

Top Ten Celebrities This Decade Who Crashed and Burned with Video Evidence

And a partridge in a pear tree...​Last week, we gave you our list of celebrities who manage to save their careers after difficult times. This week, we go a different direction. If we have learned anything from TMZ, it's that people love celebrity scandals and the more salacious it is, the more ... More >>

Cinema To Fall Asleep To

​As a rule, I try not to fall asleep in movies. Home viewing is one thing. There's a certain satisfaction one derives from bravely refusing to remain conscious through an entire screening of The Break Up, for example. Some would regard it as a feat of endurance to stay awake for the entire fi ... More >>

The First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine

Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy the otherwise rote Salt.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Feast

Why are there fang marks on your microphone?

Knight in Verbal Armor

Tom Cruise, please stop talking.

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 >>

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 >>

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Risky Business for Valkyrie

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

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

The Dome As Movie Studio -- Now On The Web

Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder

Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Samurai!!! Japanese Film Festival

The Japanese Film Festival fights its way onto the big screen

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

Scientology rumors swirl

But at Least the Guns Aren’t Gay…

Impossibly Passable

Turning Tricks

Kicking French Ass

District B13 puts American action movies to shame

Kat Not Included

Abort

Mission: Impossible III runs the franchise into the ground

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

The Passion of the Cruise

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

Collateral Damaged

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

Slingin' Sauce

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

Metaphor Alert: Bright Red

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

White Dork Down

Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords

Blowin' Smoke

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

Vanity Fare

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

Duh Press

Fear and self-loathing at the Minority Report junket

Report Card

Spielberg's Minority Report gets good grades until the end

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

Best Pool Hall

Waugh Drive Pool Hall

Mission 2: Successful

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

Boneheaded

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

Short Cuts

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

Cruisified

Mission: Irrelevant

Sure, you can upgrade a TV series to the big screen -- but why bother?

The Sucking Game

Monsters that go dull in the night