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The 2012 Village Voice Film Critic's Poll

Movies are alive in the Age of McConaughey.

Lincoln: A Tall, Tall Film

Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg ably fill the hat.

Men in Black Goes Back in Time

A Taste of Reality: Top 5 Food Documentaries

Tommy Lee Jones once didn't do a film because there was a scene in which he was supposed to eat on camera. Tommy Lee Jones doesn't eat on camera. Ever. That film was Man of the House, and it's a good thing that the producers caved to his demands, for the world would be a far, far worse place if ... More >>

Gothic Council: Is Batman Goth?

Yeah yeah yeah, The Avengers is awesome. Let's not forget that the Dark Knight Rises will soon be here! I have always been keen to claim Batman as a goth icon, but I thought I'd get clearance from the Gothic Council before I committed myself. Joining us this week is fashion designer Batty, webmistr ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead -- 50 Cent And Much More

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Pop Rocks: And Now, Your Least Anticipated Movies of 2012

The end of the year is always a nice time for going to the theater. Studios are desperate to cram anything they want for "awards consideration" into the final two weeks of December, leading to a larger than usual number of thoughtful, well-made films available for your holiday viewing pleasure. Yea ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The Least Anticipated Movies of 2012

The end of the year is always a nice time for going to the theater. Studios are desperate to cram anything they want for "awards consideration" into the final two weeks of December, leading to a larger than usual number of thoughtful, well-made films available for your holiday viewing pleasure. Yea ... More >>

Tommy Lee Jones For Senate: New Poll Says He Could Kick Ass

Is there a draft in here?​The movement to draft Tommy Lee Jones to run as a Democrat to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison is most likely doomed to failure, but a new poll shows Jones might be a viable candidate. Public Policy Polling released its survey today on the 2012 Senate race, and it shows ... More >>

Space Shuttles: Ten Ways Los Angeles and New York Can Show Theirs Off, Dammit

Bi-wing airplanes...pfft. Try this on for size, Kong.​This week, we learned that Houston, essentially the birthplace of the space shuttle program, will not be given one of the four remaining shuttles. Two of the four cities receiving them are both deserving and appropriate: Washington D.C. (fo ... More >>

Tommy Lee Jones for Senate: Crucial Updates

Since our item on Houston attorney Geoff Berg's campaign to draft Tommy Lee Jones for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, things have been moving fast. 1. Tommy Lee Jones still has had nothing to say on this. 2. But the story has been picked up by CNN, the Dallas Morning News, ... More >>

Tommy Lee Jones For Senate: Congressman Gene Green Says Why the Hell Not?

Senator Tommy Lee Jones?​Geoff Berg, host of KPFT's Partisan Gridlock show is leading the improbable battle to draft Tommy Lee Jones as a Democratic candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison. They've got a Facebook page and everything, including a petition with an op ... More >>

The 10 Sexiest (Male) Texans Of Our Lifetime

Last week we gave you our 10 Sexiest Texans of Our Lifetime. It was a list that was, admittedly, vagina-biased. We make it up to the people who love guys with this definitive list, which involved more asking around than the first one. Here are, then, the 10 sexiest Texas men of our lives: 10. Sea ... More >>

Rich Man's Recession

The Company Men takes pity on the emasculated executive.

Hey Astros, Here's a Thought: Bench Carlos Lee

​The Astros Twitter feed was rather shocked that Carlos Lee couldn't bend over and make a play on a ground ball in left field last night. It's as if the Astros writers thought there was either a legitimate outfielder in left field, or that Carlos Lee actually gave a damn about anything that ha ... More >>

For Eyjaf...Eyjafj...For that Iceland Volcano, Five Crappy Magma-Laden Movies

​As you've probably heard by now, the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano erupting in Iceland is causing some problems across the pond: EU transport ministers are to hold emergency talks by video conference on easing the volcanic ash cloud chaos paralysing air travel across Europe. Sixty-three thousan ... More >>

John Goodman, Bazillionaire Polo Patron, Awaits Possible Charges In Fatal Palm Beach Bentley Wreck

Randall Patterson's 1998 feature on Houston / Palm Beach polo patron John Goodman ends with the billionaire playboy getting a champagne bath. Right now, Palm Beach police want to know if he also soaked in a little too much booze last Thursday night. That was when Goodman, the founder of the Palm B ... More >>

More On The Billionaire And The Bentley: The Coroner's Report Is In, The Lawyer Is A Star, And Why Hasn't Goodman Been Charged?

Photo by bing The Goodman cabin in Florida​Some further developments in the case of John Goodman, the billionaire Houston / Palm Beach polo patron who was involved in a fatal Bentley accident last week... The coroner's report is in on Scott Wilson, the victim in the crash. His death was ru ... More >>

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

This is one football game that made history on and off the field

Texas Horror Movies: The Top Five

No Country for Old Men, South Park: Imaginationland, Sleuth, Five Days

No Country for Old Men

Coen Brothers transcend themselves with this West Texas tale

In the Valley of Elah

Don't let Paul Haggis's heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

Spider-Man 3

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

The Delightful Dud

The Long Good-bye

Garrison Keillor's Prairie makes a fine pasture for Altman

He Will Bury You

Tommy Lee Jones keeps his promise to Melquiades Estrada

Indian Giver

The Missing misses plenty, except ancient prejudices

The Stunted

Friedkin tries -- and fails -- to make a French Connection with The Hunted

Kill Shot

Neil Burger fabricates Kennedy's Assassin, and he's mostly on target

Best Shrine to the Abnormal

Museum of the Weird

Bet on Black

If there's a sure crowd-pleaser this summer, it's the fast-paced spectacle that is MIIB

The (Balding) Eagle Has Landed

Clint Eastwood's charming Space Cowboys tosses youth demographics out the cargo bay

Weary of the Wows

A Houston junket and the jaded of Hollywood

Crime Fiction Pays

Letters

Galactic Mediocrity

Men in Black thinks small and tries too hard

I Lava L.A.!

Volcano destroys the City of Angels with hot magma and cool affection

Good-bye to Summer

What this year's movies portend for next year

Farewell to Arms

Ousted from the airwaves, a homophobic minister launches a holy war against Channel 20

Train to Disaster

Batman, At Last

Sexy and soulful, Schumacher's epic proves the third time's the charm

Baseball's Rough Beast

Love Madness

Tony Richardson's last film is compellingly complex

Rotation

Media Mad

Combine TV, killing and crowds, and what do you have? Oliver Stone

The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Another Grisham thriller hits the screen, with middling results

Press Picks

No Bang, No Bing, No Boom

Blown Away isn't just about bombs. It is one.

Standing at the Gates of Heaven

Oliver Stone is knock-knock-knockin', but he just can't get inside his latest Vietnam epic