1) Always Have a Plan B, C or D As everyone who’s lived in Houston for at least a few months knows traffic is horrendous at times. Because of that it’s often difficult to make it from the East End to the Heights for an early show at …

The Ides of March is a political drama done right. It favors human drama in place of quick edits and heavy exposition that have mired the genre lately and is filled with performances that are never hammy, a marvel for the hit-or-miss Hoffman and Giamatti.

    Due Date, directed by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips, stars Robert Downey Jr. as the high-strung Peter Highman and Zach Galifianakis as Ethan Tremblay. Peter needs to get to Los Angeles for the birth of his child, and through a chance encounter with Tremblay, gets kicked off a flight …