Subject: Tom Cruise

• Back For Spring: Old-School Tags

  May 2, 2007

• Good News For People Who Like Love!

  December 14, 2007

• Locals Harass Scientologists

  February 11, 2008

• Scientolgists: Beware the Ides of March

  March 19, 2008

• A Step Above

  January 2, 2003

• Wrestling fans hate George W. Bush more than the sledgehammer molester

  Kendall and I attended last night's WWE Monday Night Raw show at the Sprint Center, along with Crap Archivist Alan Scherstuhl. I'm an old school fan from the days when Jake "The Snake" Roberts tried to wipe the smirk off "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's pampered, ugly mug. Hell, I even stuck with them through the Doink the Clown years. And though I admit that recent shows have been less than compelling, any chance to see The Undertaker chokeslam someone must be taken. He is to pain w

  March 24, 2009

• Pool Party

  April 9, 2009

• Valkyrie

  December 25, 2008

• Tropic Thunder

  August 14, 2008

• Step Brothers

  July 24, 2008

• Show Over Tell

  March 20, 2008

• Coming Out

  March 6, 2008

• What's Wrong With This Picture?

  Robert Redford and the American façade.

  November 8, 2007

• Dull Roar

  The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama.

  November 8, 2007

• Forget It

  You saw Paycheck last year, remember?

  December 25, 2003

• Tinkle Twinkle

  With the help of its piano, UMKC’s graduate theater department sparkles in the basement.

  April 5, 2007

• Impossibly Passable

  November 2, 2006

• Turning Tricks

  September 14, 2006

• Chick Shtick

  March 2, 2006

• A Cowpoke Reach-Around

  Late Night's Bonanza has just the right amount of Brokeback.

  February 16, 2006

• Bombs & Bikinis

  Stealth aims low but hits its mark.

  July 28, 2005

• Reunited

  And it feels so good.

  July 21, 2005

• The Next Big Thing

  Local artists, show us your hits.

  July 14, 2005

• Gross Encounters

  Spielberg's War hikes up the gore, and that ain't a bad thing.

  June 30, 2005

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  June 23, 2005

• Fusing Muses

  UCP finds a point of convergence.

  June 16, 2005

• Excess Hollywood

  In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

  May 19, 2005

• Collateral Damaged

  When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't very good.

  August 5, 2004

• Summer Film Previews

  May 20, 2004

• White Dork Down

  Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords.

  December 4, 2003

• Shakedown Cruise

  On his maiden sea voyage, veteran director Peter Weir masters the epic.

  November 13, 2003

• Big, Wet Kiss

  Richard Curtis is in Love with love, so what's new?

  November 6, 2003

• Vanity Fare

  Ray Liotta wants to know why he loses roles to...Owen Wilson?

  January 9, 2003

• Straining Day

  Narc struggles to prove its grit.

  January 9, 2003

• Duh Press

  Fear and self-loathing at the Minority Report junket.

  June 20, 2002

• Native Tongues

  Windtalkers spins a World War II epic around Navaho code-talkers.

  June 13, 2002

• Damned Amusing

  Anne Rice's cheesy vampire queen doesn't suck.

  February 21, 2002

• Red Snare

  Kidman's Birthday Girl sets a trap, but for whom?

  January 31, 2002

• Setting Son

  In the Bedroom, a couple's anguish turns to rage, then rational madness.

  December 20, 2001

• Eyes Half Open

  Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland.

  December 13, 2001

• Two if by Sea

  The Shakespeare Festival puts on a couple of perfect storms.

  June 28, 2001

• Blessed Fest

  The Halfway to Hollywood Film Festival goes all the way.

  June 14, 2001

• Vein Glory

  Exploitation cinema becomes art in E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire.

  January 25, 2001

• A Fan's Notes

  After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

  September 14, 2000

• By his own creed

  Hamlet.

  June 29, 2000

• M:I-2 gets the job done

  M:I-2. Directed by John Woo. Screenplay by Robert Towne; story by Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga; based on the television series created by Bruce Geller. Starring Tom Cruise, Thandie Newton, Dougray Scott, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson, and Richard

  June 1, 2000

• Policing the Academy

  A look at the inherently unpredictable Oscar race.

  March 16, 2000

• The screen curls up

  A look at film adaptaion of novels

  February 17, 2000

• Studies in Crap and the USSR's Ministry of Health love themselves some gently NSFW socialized medicine!

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Public Health and Social Security in the USSRAuthor: Either an upbeat cadre of Soviet propagandists or, for you FOX viewers, Obama with a time machine.Publisher: USSR Ministry of HealthDate: circa 1963Discovered at: Prairie Village estate saleThe Cover Promises: Soviet men are so vigo

  July 16, 2009

• A Studies in Crap anniversary clip-show: Seven amusing pieces of crap not worth full columns

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.  ​ It's been just over a year since the lord first commanded your Crap Archivst to reveal to the world the great heaps of crap clogging creation. Since then, Studies in Crap has exposed the finest in crazy preachers, out-dated sex guides, existential coloring books, and Limbaugh family

  August 13, 2009