Subject:

Kurt Russell

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2013

    Watch Ronald McDonald Give Allen's Minor League Hockey Team a Stirring Pep Talk

    As the U.S. men's hockey team prepared to take the ice before its improbable win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics, head coach Herb Brooks said a few words. His speech, or, more accurately, a Hollywood writer's imagining of it, was dramatized by Kurt Russell in the 2004 film Miracle. ... More >>

  • Film

    September 6, 2012

    Game Boy

    The bigger and better mousetraps of Paul W.S. Anderson

  • Film

    October 29, 2009
  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Boldly Going From Collin County Community College to SciFi's New Stargate Series

    The top story in today's Hollywood Reporter billboards the cast of the new Sci Fi Channel series Stargate Universe, third in the Stargate franchise. Starring opposite Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is Brian J. Smith, a young actor we've been writing about (OK, gushing over) since he ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    September 20, 2007
  • Film

    April 5, 2007

    Glittering Hunks of Trash

    Rodriguez and Tarantino overcome nostalgia in their cut-and-run grindhouse mash note

  • Film

    May 11, 2006

    That Stinking Feeling

    Poseidon's second voyage yields a brand-new disaster

  • Film

    October 20, 2005

    Requiem for a Dreamer

    This horse movie needs to be put down as soon as possible

  • Dining

    August 25, 2005

    Town Down

    Where can I take people to see the real Dallas?

  • Film

    January 13, 2005

    Not Rockne

    A worthy actor rides the bench in the listless Coach Carter

  • Film

    February 20, 2003

    Cop Out

    Ellroy + Ayer = a familiar bad-cop movie in which L.A. burns

  • Culture

    March 28, 2002

    The Pitch

    In 1988, Ron Shelton made Bull Durham. In 2002, it couldn't be done.

  • Film

    December 13, 2001

    Eyes Half Open

    Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

  • Film

    June 29, 2000

    Saving Private Mel

    The Patriot is sentimental, overbearing, flag-waving--and a crowd-pleaser

  • Film

    April 20, 2000

    Re-boot

    U-571 pays homage to great submarine movies and even provides a few surprises itself

  • Film

    December 31, 1998

    Eight is enough

    Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

  • Film

    August 15, 1996

    Escape while you can

    Is Escape from L.A. campy comedy or awful action? You decide.

  • Film

    August 8, 1996

    Weird science

    Jack is the latest summer flick to mix quasi-fantasy with toothless comedy

  • Film

    March 21, 1996

    Flight of fancy

    Witless and laughable, Executive Decision fails the smirk test

  • Film

    May 4, 1995

    Bad seeds

    John Carpenter's promising Village of the Damned never flowers

  • Film

    January 5, 1995

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

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