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If one were to graph Mickey Rourke's career, one would find the peak way back in the mid-Eighties, back when Rourke was an A-list actor who actually starred in films rather than randomly popped up, as he does these days, as a weathered cameo player swallowing his bit parts whole. Somewhere on the summit of that peak sits Angel Heart.

Will a brown-out really change the way Latinos are portrayed on television? Also, only a few quibbles about the surprisingly promising premiere of Angel, starring Buffy's David Boreanaz.

Stock footage saves uninspiring faith-tinged disaster drama from tedium.

Sound artist and festival curator promotes the creative class

AFS Essential Cinema hand-picks four nights of rare Irish filmmaking

A bureaucratic heaven, as envisioned by a couple of charming clowns, is sweet

Rules of the Game (1939) played ball and jacks compared to Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel

Eddie Angel flies into the Continental

A columnist's lament, by way of some favorite cultural touchstones

Here's to Holly Hunter

The good, the bad, and the God on TV.

Record Review

Did TV News Reports Jeopardize Out Youth Austin's Partnership With AISD?

Is it a coincidence that at the turn of the century, magic and the supernatural has made another appearance on TV?

Next music picks from Large Brush Collection, Will Johnson, and more

Easy come, uneasy go

Mayor Watson’s DPS gambit just got a lot messier

7.5: "The Angels Take Manhattan"

A film review and recommendation for this blur of a year

In his 1948 debut for the immortal Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune unleashes a naked rage that anticipates James Dean by a half-dozen years

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

Breaking more ground: Six Feet Under returns for a third season.

Seven thirtysomething friends converge on a Texas beach to party, party, party, in the comedy Angel's Balcony, and with playwright Blake Yelavich providing an abundance of pop-culture references and witty banter, it's a good bet the rhythm is gonna get you.

A toilet cleaner in Tokyo quietly goes about his days in this stirring Oscar nominated picture

Tense exploration of Afghanistan's chaos camouflaged as an action flick

Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck team up for a pulpy mindbender

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