Woody Allen

Bronx Bombers: Gimme the Loot

Adam Leon's stellar first film - and TV show - toasts the tag artist.

Kiarostami in Exile

The great Iranian director lost a home but gained a planet.

What Wine for a [California] Veggie Sandwich?

The first time I had a [California] veggie sandwich (in California, they just call it a "veggie sandwich"), it was at the legendary Source on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. By the time I got there (an undergrad at UCLA in the late '80s), founder Father Yod and the Source family were long gone (as ... More >>

The 5 Best Shows In Houston This Week: Blondie/Devo, Uncle Lucius, etc.

Houston's football, etc., who package the spidery and poignant guitar passages of '90s bands like Mineral and Rainer Maria into a super-crunchy outer shell, went to the UK this summer and released a three-song split with Square Business in July. Monday, see if you can talk the trio out of a T-shirt ... More >>

Julie Delpy Rocks New York

Always more than an ingenue, she's taking on everything that's wrong with movies - and she's bringing Chris Rock.

Rest Of The Best: Houston's Top 7 Downtown Bars

Life is about perspective and so is Houston's downtown. Perhaps some look at it as a commercial district and once wannabe party king who lost its luster with the emergence of its cousin Midtown. Or you can see it as a beautiful skyline -- the best in Texas -- that's lightly peppered with a magnifice ... More >>

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

This Week in Deliciousness

Real champagne is from the French province of Champagne. Real Sparkling Thunderwine, however, is brewed in the stills of Valhalla.​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where the good Christmas cookies have all been eaten out of the assortment, and the remaining raisin-y ... More >>

Texas Bowl: Two Very Different Views Of Houston From Illinois

He's just looking for the Menil Collection​If you're not a Baylor alum, you might not yet have caught Texas Bowl Fever, but you will, you will. Baylor and Illinois are in town for the Wednesday game at Reliant, and that means, in the case of Illinois at least, fresh impressions of Houston. J ... More >>

New Nose, Same You

Tamara Drewe and the comedy of going plastic in a rustic world.

So Who Hasn't Gotten Naked?

W Magazine: All about the art.​In the latest news from the Land That Talent Forgot, Kim Kardashian has gone starkers for the November issue of W Magazine: Kim Kardashian has bared all on the cover of a fashion magazine. The reality star, who turns 30 on Oct. 21, appears nude on W Magazine's ... More >>

Cyrus: Win Free Preview Passes To A Movie Where John C. Reilly Does Not Play A Cop

Face of a cop, apparently​Cyrus is a quirky comedy starring Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and John C. Reilly.Reilly plays a guy whose romance with Tomei gets complicated by her relationship with Hill, a son who's kind of challenging.Reilly does not play a cop. Actually, he hasn't in a while, but starti ... More >>

Buena Vista Social Club Screens At Domy Tonight

Greetings from Florida. By the time you read this, Hollywood Shuffle will be well entrenched in the Sunshine State on our annual pilgrimage to visit family, douse ourselves in cuba libres and eat our body weight in Cuban pulled-pork sandwiched and plantains. It's long been a dream of HWS's to visit ... More >>

Slant: Bold Asian American Images

Melissa Hung and Aurora Picture Show throw quite a party this year

Soul Man

Paul Giamatti's wit is the heart of Cold Souls.

Miss Pop Rocks: American Apparel -- The Units Of Our Day

Photo by kaddistrophicCould a young, twentysomething hipster please explain to this 32-year-old crotchety senior citizen what exactly is American Apparel's appeal, puhlease?My problems with the chain of clothing stores are many.First of all, Dov Charney, American Apparel's CEO, is a known perv ... More >>

Advanced Mexican Studies

Where are all the professionals and college degrees?

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Fast and Loose: The Bank Job

True or false? This heist flick is too much fun to fact-check

Definitely, Maybe is Absolutely, Positively Rewarding

Can't get enough of Bill Clinton? Have we got a movie for you.

Margot at the Wedding

Margot sees family for what it is: prickly

Low Self-Esteem, Flirting Double Standards and One Intelligent Mexican

Mexican-American Culture

Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

Heartbreak House

This radiant production is a Shavian dream come true

Trust the Man

Stale romantic comedy has neither romance nor comedy

Pop Rocks

Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

Old Folks Rock

McCartney doesn't pretend to be anything but a sap. And Jagger still acts like he's God's gift to sexdom.

New releases available this week

Letters

Jill Scott

Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (Hidden Beach)

At the Hotel

IBP checks in with a weird play by Wallace Shawn

Heard It Through the Grapevine

Notes toward new and better criticism and marketing of wine and song

Farrelly Mediocre

The idiots what brung you Dumb and Dumber ain't funny no more

Letters

The In-(F)laws

This Douglas-Brooks remake is bigger and broader, but not better

Hallway Gangstas

When bad things happen to good kids, their Luck always holds

Fallon Fast

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

After M*A*S*H

Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

Mighty Hermaphrodite

Mira Sorvino plays a boy to get her man in The Triumph of Love

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

Giving Up the Ghost

The only thing deader than the haunted spirit in What Lies Beneath is the movie itself

Amplified

That Lonesome Sound: Bye Bye, Clay Farmer Band

Night & Day

June 17 - 23, 1999

Fantastic Antics

A Bug's Life brings out the best of Pixar's new breed

Radio Daze

Howard Stern shows off his Private Parts, and they're really quite nice

Oedipus Wrecks

Albert Brooks keeps asking, "Mother, may I?" The answer's a resounding... maybe.

Stage Notes

Making Plans, Having Fun

A Cultural Question

Jewish Worlds is back after two years. It should have waited a third.

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