Michael Bay

Pain & Gain Pumps Up Reality

Michael Bay injects potent absurdity into an unbelievable but true story.

North Texas Tollway Authority Now Officially Suing the Pants off Habitual Toll Violators

We knew this was coming. The North Texas Tollway Authority kind of telegraphed it when the agency announced that some 6,000 of its top scofflaws would be referred to an outside law firm for possible litigation over their toll-ignoring ways. And now, it's here. The NTTA filed more than a dozen civil ... More >>

House of Cards' Netflix Bow is Just Another Way for Pop Culture to Pretend it Unnerves Us

It's been nice to watch TV--fresh off House of Cards's Netflix premier--deal with the same questions people have been addressing about music since Napster or iTunes or Spotify, depending on which iteration of the issue you remember best. Specifically: Now that Netflix can create programming based on ... More >>

45 Movie Trends That Need to Die Right Now (A Sequel)

Get In Line Early At Weinberger's On Meatless Monday

One of the most challenging ventures of Meatless Monday is not finding meatless dishes, but finding vegetarian renditions of your favorite items. This includes sandwiches, a staple so vital to the average human's lunch hour routine it seems almost sacrilege to alter it. But there are only so many pi ... More >>

The D — as in Dead — List

Pizza Hut Will Add Romance to Your Marriage Proposal for 10 Grand, Provide Breadsticks

Pizza Hut​For generations, people have been nervously asking, "Is a fast-food pizza chain the best place to make my marriage proposal?" Now Plano-based Pizza Hut is offering an answer. Their $10,010 package, according to the press release, (via Eater) includes a "stunning ruby stone flanked ... More >>

This Asteroid Is The Size of 10,394.8 Texases, or the Best Texas-Based Video of the Day

The Size of Texas with Clint Howard from Clint Howard Here's a new brilliant one from Funny or Die, where writer / Director Scott Gairdner parodies Michael Bay's Armaggedon (or any ridiculous asteroid movie)--specifically the scene where Billy Bob Thorton exclaims the asteroid about to pulveri ... More >>

There's No Place Like a CGI-ed Kansas

Transformers: Baying at the Moon

Chicago destroyed, along with viewers' brain cells.

All In a Day’s Art

So There Are Celebrities in Town: A Round-Up of Some Famous Faces on Super Party Circuit

All photos WireImageAshton Kutcher, Demi Moore and noted comedy genius Justin Timberlake at the Rachovsky House​Woke up this morning to find some last-night souvenirs in the in-box -- some, from the Audi Forum at the Rachovsky House on Preston and Northwest Highway, which the car-maker's taken ove ... More >>

Fort Worth, Mademoiselle

Unstoppable: The Little Guy Saves Small-town USA (and its Corporate Overlords).

Listomania: 10 Bands That Suck Outdoors

​Let's start this off right: We're absolutely not saying these bands suck. We're saying they suck in the heat and humidity of an overpacked, porta-potty using festival. And, with ACL approaching fast and other festivals that people like coming up real soon, there's a lot of choices in that butt-sw ... More >>

The Road: Neither Horrific Nor Disasterrrific, Cormac Mccarthy Adap Takes The Path Of Least Resistance

If He Whispers, They Will Learn

Filming Art

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is Blockbuster Porn, Having No Real Reason to Exist save selling action figures.

In the Heat of the Knight

Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a Thing to Marvel

Three the Hard Way

Play on Point of View in Diving Bell

Julian Schnabel sees only treacle in the story that inspired his Diving Bell

Genuine Fake Robots

Man Down

Werner Herzog takes his hero worship Hollywood

Flick It

Your guide to summer's hottest films

AFI Fest Releases Lineup of Films and Guest List. Oh, Look: The Guy From Office Space

Downward Mobility

Brit movie brat takes the B horror movie where it deserves to go

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

U.S.A.-holes

Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

Messin' With Texas

The Alamo gets what it always needed--a happy ending!

Minority Report

Hispanic Expo offers diversity, free stuff

Bad Boys of Dumber

See it, don't see it--whatcha gonna do?

Cold Blooded

Neal LaBute deprives viewers the passion of Byatt's books

Devil's Advocate

Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

All Thai'd Up

Bangkok Dangerous gives plenty of Pang for the buck

Bora! Bora! Bora!

Pearl Harbor's sound and fury signify nothing

Time Bandits

This overlong adaptation of the Proust classic will steal precious hours from your life

The Bagmen Cometh

Go The Way of the Gun, and you shall be rewarded

Crash of the Titan

Disney-esque characters and anime stylings don't mix, but at least the battles are cool

Yo Momma

Martin Lawrence proves there's a fine line between fat and phat

Mission accomplished

Sequel-itis infects Cruise's M:I-2, but not fatally

The money shot

Jagged and flashy, Lola pulls off a stylistic extravaganza

Talking down

Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey can't negotiate their way through this thrill-free thriller

The long trailer

The mega-hyped disaster flick Armageddon signals the death of storytelling

Air disaster

Bruckheimer production comes complete with all his Con-temptible traits

'96 rewound

Good, but not that good