Subject: Tom Hanks

• Houston, We Have an Unoriginal Headline

  May 31, 2007

• Charlie Wilson’s War, Now with Less 9/11

  December 12, 2007

• Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

  January 8, 2008

• Charlie Wilson's War -- Over A UT Chair

  August 27, 2008

• Best Laundromat

  Graustark Laundry

  September 26, 2002

• Highest-Ranking NASA Woman Ever Prepares For Re-Entry To Private Life

  Shana Dale, the highest-ranking woman in NASA history, is leaving the agency after three years as second-in-command.NASA's press release on the subject said she announced the decision today, but readers of her blog were tipped off about it last week. (Clearly, we were not readers of her blog.)Dale says she's leaving so the new administration can put their own person in."It has been an honor for me to work with those who support America's space program," Dale said in the official announcement. "I

  December 4, 2008

• Artist of the Week: The Favorites

  Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. We like to fancy ourselves fairly well-tuned into the local music scene. Sometimes when we're out with friends, we even make up names of bands and then mock people for having never heard them. ("What?! You've never heard of

  December 10, 2008

• The Silence of the Lambs

  January 13, 1994

• The Age of Innocents

  July 14, 1994

• Wagons Ho Hum

  September 8, 1994

• Moonstruck

  July 6, 1995

• The Year in Film

  December 28, 1995

• Pop Sensation

  October 3, 1996

• For Valentine's Day: The Five Worst Romantic Comedies

  With Valentine's Day approaching, tbe best most of you poor single bastards can hope for is to get through the night with your bank account relatively intact. Married folks are better off, as all they're really expected to come up with is a perfunctory gift and maybe an evening spent watching a dreaded "romantic comedy" (or "rom-com," as the genre is referred to by Communists and pederasts) on DVD. Even if that's the case, there are plenty of pitfalls to avoid. It was an exhausting process, but

  February 11, 2009

• Guilty Of Medicaid Fraud? Depends

  If you're going to try to defraud the government, please -- for your own self-esteem -- choose a more glamorous plan than one involving adult diapers.When the announcement came in from the US Attorney's Office headlined that a local company owner had been "INDICTED IN ADULT DIAPER FRAUD CASE," we couldn't wait to open the e-mail.Had some nefarious con man sold adult diapers that turned out to actually not be absorbent? (We can see Tom Hanks in the SNL's "Sabra Price is Right" skit: "Yes, yes, it

  February 13, 2009

• Combat Reality

  July 23, 1998

• Return Mail

  December 17, 1998

• Year of Yearning

  December 31, 1998

• Class Action

  January 7, 1999

• DJs in Daylight

  May 6, 1999

• Hitchcock on Holiday

  May 10, 2007

• They're in Tune

  April 27, 2006

• DVDs

  March 15, 2007

• When the Stars Came Out

  November 16, 2006

• Jesus Wept

  Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?

  June 1, 2006

• Cracked Code

  Da Vinci's leap to the screen leaves no room for surprise

  May 18, 2006

• Pretty Girls Make Saves

  As video games go indie, Wack imagines a few likely pairings

  April 13, 2006

• Gay-Unit

  Twisted G is most definitely not trapped in the closet

  January 26, 2006

• Homo on the Range

  Ledger and Gyllenhaal are cowboys in love in Ang Lee's wrenching Brokeback Mountain

  December 15, 2005

• A Very Long Run

  November 17, 2005

• Second Run

  Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

  December 23, 2004

• Don't Pass Glass

  Twelve artists show us what the clear stuff can do

  August 19, 2004

• Monster Makeover

  Van Helsing explodes movie legends with hip upgrades

  May 6, 2004

• Big Deal

  A good idea grows up into a missed opportunity

  April 22, 2004

• No More Wussies

  Or, why Tom Hanks isn't Steve Guttenberg

  March 25, 2004

• Suth'n Comfort

  The Coens score big with Ladykillers -- thanks to Hanks

  March 25, 2004

• Adam 'n' Heave

  50 First Dates is a patchy toss-off strictly for Sandler fans

  February 12, 2004

• Not the Sweetest Thing

  What a bad feeling -- and taste -- Honey leaves behind

  December 4, 2003

• The Year of Living Dangerously

  Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

  January 2, 2003

• Catcher in the Sky

  Spielberg gets caught up in the thrill of the chase

  December 26, 2002

• Fallon Fast

  Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

  August 22, 2002

• One-Way Ticket

  Tom Hanks and Paul Newman are on the bloody, brilliant Road to Perdition

  July 11, 2002

• Special Delivery

  With Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis unearths the part of Tom Hanks we've been hoping to find: His brittle humanity

  December 21, 2000

• Breaking God into Movies

  The Deeper Meaning of Movies: Entertainment Culture and the Big Picture

  November 2, 2000

• E.T. on Death Row

  Director Frank Darabont gets metaphysical in The Green Mile

  December 9, 1999

• For 4/20: Five Classic Stoners From The Movies

  April 20 is National Pot Smoking Day, because if there's anything America needs, it's a holiday encouraging us to be more apathetic than we already are. But rather than get bogged down in arguments for legalization or debates about the merits of medicinal marijuana, let us simply commemorate this occasion with a look back at some of the more memorable movie stoners of yore:5. The Dude -- The Big Lebowski (1998) Jeffrey Lebowski may be unemployed, but he has his own place and an ample supply of

  April 20, 2009

• Angels & Demons with Tom Hanks

  May 14, 2009

• Spacefest: 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

  July 16, 2009

• The Five Worst Movies Being Shown On The International Space Station

  ​Maybe this has come out before -- the list seems to be a year old -- but we noticed today a story in the British paper The Guardian about the list of DVDs NASA has provided to the International Space Station.The actual list is here, released under the Freedom of Information Act. Movies are apparently selected by the crews, so they reveal the taste of NASA nerds.There's the usual space stuff on there, but the list also includes some head-scratchers. For instance, there's Harold & Kumar, sa

  August 19, 2009

• House of Enchiladas

  ​Deep in Friendswood (it isn't that far away, people) is an establishment that has ballooned into an enchilada institution. It's called La Casita (18043 County Rd. 127), and Tom Hanks ate here during the filming of Apollo 13 at Space Center Houston. It's also the local dive of a recent Bachelor contestant. Weird. Friendswood. We had a half order of fajitas served with caramelized onions, green and red bell peppers, beef flank steak, guacamole, lettuce and pico. This dish served its pur

  October 27, 2009