Tony Scott

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The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

War Games

Crimson Tide dives deep, but ends up dead in the water

Field of Nightmares

In The Fan, Robert De Niro would kill for the Giants -- literally

Air Disaster

Bruckheimer's production shows all his Con-temptible traits

Coens Go to Pot

Bruckheimer's production shows all his Con-temptible traits

Movie Starr?

Enemy of the State parallels special prosecutor plots

Peeking Inside the Shadowy Crypt of Houston's Goth Community

Enemy of the State parallels special prosecutor plots

It's a Crime

Spike Lee's Inside Man plots the heist of your moviegoing dollars

Love at First Fight

This Pride & Prejudice brings fresh passion to an old love story

Keira Get Your Gun

Domino chronicles the life of a model-turned-bounty hunter

Assault 'n' Prepper

A reckless cop goes undercover as the Underclassman

Dead Man Talking

Ben Guillory helped the DEA bust some east Houston dope dealers. But he says the agency's cavalier approach has left him a marked man in his old neighborhood.

Boot Camp

A pumped-up U-571 recalls Wolfgang Petersen's famous German submarine drama

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Why was this movie remade?

Truth in Advertising

Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London. And might sell some train tickets, too.

Sharp-Dressed Fans

Billy Gibbons and other Houstonians share their favorite Astros memories.

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day

​When it comes to movie remakes, I always think of Die Hard. Specifically, this Alan Rickman line: Sooner or later, I might get to someone you do care about! Granted, he was trying to force McClane to tell him where his detonators were, but the same sentiment applies to "reimagining" our fav ... More >>

Momma's Boys

Peter Pan complexes collide in Cyrus.

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day 2 (The Remakening)

Honestly, do you really care?​I write a lot about Hollywood's obsession with remakes because I'm a movie buff, first and foremost, and because as a "writer" it's easy to milk an announcement of the latest atrocity from Platinum Dunes for 750 indignant words regarding the creative demise of Hollywo ... More >>

America, Back on Track

The little guy saves small-town USA (and its corporate ­overlords) in Unstoppable.

The Beatles: Eight Ways To Spruce Up Their iTunes Catalog

​In what was undoubtedly momentous news to the hundreds of music fans out there who haven't already a) copied their CDs of Rubber Soul and Revolver onto their hard drives, or b) illegally downloaded their entire collection, Apple made the entire Beatles catalog available on iTunes yesterday. ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Pocket Full Of Kryptonite

Lindsay Lohan's in my next movie? Just leave the bottle.​I'd done a decent job putting the fact they're rebooting the Superman franchise *again* next year out of my mind, that is until a flurry of recent Man of Steel-related news items popped up in the last week or so. "Wait," you're saying, ... More >>