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Tom Cruise

  • Film

    January 15, 2009

    From Reverence to Rape in Defiance

    Hollywood plunders meaning from the Holocaust – again

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2007

    But at Least the Guns Aren’t Gay…

    Hollywood plunders meaning from the Holocaust – again

  • Film

    November 17, 1994

    The Sucking Game

    Monsters that go dull in the night

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    The Dome As Movie Studio -- Now On The Web

    Monsters that go dull in the night

  • 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

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

  • Film

    December 12, 1996

    Cruisified

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

  • 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 >>

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000

    Best Pool Hall

    Waugh Drive Pool Hall

  • 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

    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

    Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2006

    Kat Not Included

    Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that

  • 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

  • Culture

    February 24, 2005

    Capsule Reviews

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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"

  • 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

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Feast

    Why are there fang marks on your microphone?

  • Film

    June 24, 2010

    Knight in Verbal Armor

    Tom Cruise, please stop talking.

  • Film

    July 22, 2010

    The First (Ambiguous) Action Heroine

    Angelina Jolie's contradictions buoy the otherwise rote Salt.

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    High School Football: If Hollywood Were In Control, These Five Things Would Happen

    Sacred grounds​This evening marks the start of another high school football season. Entire cities and towns will be shuttering their doors and congregating at the central holy ground: the football stadium. Well, that may not be the case in Houston, but certainly in Dillon and West Canaan. (Oh, tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    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.

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