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John Royal’s Top Ten All-Time Greatest Sports Movies

The 2008 MTV Movie Awards Turn Back the Clock

Slo-Mo Football-Movie Finales: The Top Five

College Football Preview, Tea Leoni Edition

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

What's Not To Like About Hanukkah? Lots

Christmas is approaching, which means it's time for gentiles the country over to condescendingly recognize the existence of one of the least significant Jewish holidays - the frustratingly spelled Hanukkah.While it's certainly nice to wish others well during their respective holidays, Hair Balls bel ... More >>

Post-1990 Holiday Songs That Don't Blow

This list was damn near impossible to compile. The criteria: original holiday songs recorded after 1990. There aren't many tunes that qualify, and of the ones that do, few of them are worth listening to. Like fake marshmallow froth atop a cup of instant cocoa, here's the crème de la crème of the l ... More >>

A Few Rejected Inaugural Ball Theme Songs

Eminem feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent, "Crack A Bottle" The Good: Many bottles will be popped during tonight's festivities, we imagine, if not quite as many models. Also, the ongoing partnerships between this trio of rap titans says something about the present state of race relations in this country, ... More >>

The Future of Rock and Roll

We've seen it in a crystal ball and the pictures aren't pretty

Press Picks

We've seen it in a crystal ball and the pictures aren't pretty

The Lawman & the Weasel

We've seen it in a crystal ball and the pictures aren't pretty

Memo Re: Slap Shot Remake

TO: President, Universal Pictures FROM: Script Department RE: Slap Shot Remake We received a copy of Peter Steinfeld's (21) first draft for the planned Slap Shot remake. Before we pass it on to the director currently attached to this project (Dean Parisot, Fun With Dick and Jane), we though ... More >>

Perfect Pop

Sandler shines in the clever comedy Big Daddy

Hard as a Rock

Sandler shines in the clever comedy Big Daddy

Memo Re: Slap Shot Remake

TO: President, Universal Pictures FROM: Script Department RE: Slap Shot Remake We received a copy of Peter Steinfeld's (21) first draft for the planned Slap Shot remake. Before we pass it on to the director currently attached to this project (Dean Parisot, Fun With Dick and Jane), we though ... More >>

Happy Gilmore Gets Serious

Adam Sandler is deliberately disturbing in Punch-Drunk Love

Hairpiece in the Middle East: You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him

The Wedding Singer

The Adam Sandler film comes to the stage, sans Sandler

Paddled Senseless

This send-up of Deliverance comes without a brain, too

The '90s Continue Unabated At House Of Blues, Homeslice!

Seriously, what's with the House of Blues downtown toying around with all our '90s modern rock nostalgia as of late? In the past eight months or so since the HOB has opened, the folks on Caroline have booked almost every quasi-major alt-rock band of the last decade, that has not died of an overdos ... More >>

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Two straight guys pretend to be gay and turn out to be humanists in Chuck & Larry

Your Guide to Being Cool

Stuff you need to know this week to avoid musical ostracism

Shooter

Who better to save America than an armed Mark Wahlberg? Seriously

Reign Over Me

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Brush With Greatness

Okami shows that videogames can be art.

Pause and Effect

A truly universal remote leads to Sandler's best movie in years

The Hanukkah Songs

Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: Jewpergroup

Long Bomb

Adam Sandler, a star quarterback? If only they were joking.

Excess Hollywood

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

All You Can Eat

James L. Brooks serves up too much of a good thing in Spanglish

Hail to the King

SNL writer-comedian T. Sean Shannon pays tribute to a local comic legend: his brother

Adam 'n' Heave

50 First Dates is a patchy toss-off strictly for Sandler fans

Fight Club

Sandler and Nicholson yell at each other, and it's unpleasant

Art and Soul

From our innermost insecurities to the wildest flights of fantasy, 2002 stimulated both heart and head

Hot? Not.

Rob Schneider jerks around with his feminine side

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Dirty Deeds

Someone oughta put a Capra in Sandler's ass

The Five Worst Movies Being Shown On The International Space Station

​Maybe this has come out before -- the list seems to be a year old -- but we noticed today a story in the British paper The Guardian about the list of DVDs NASA has provided to the International Space Station.The actual list is here, released under the Freedom of Information Act. Movies are appare ... More >>

Turning the Screw: Chamillionaire, Kid Cudi & Jay-Z, Mike Epps, The Kanye, T.I., Chris Brown, DJ AM, Slim Thug, etc.

Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: Chamillionaire, "Good Morning" Wire To Wire Despite what you initially want to think about Cham's new s ... More >>

Pop Rocks: For Thanksgiving, Best Over-Eating Scenes In The Movies

Thanksgiving is weird. I understand the concept of wanting to show gratitude for the good things in our lives, and that preparing a family meal continues a tradition (allegedly) dating back to colonial times, but when did the "family meal" became an excuse to stuff ourselves until we have to loosen ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Discount Sushi

Houston still lacks the crucial "conveyor belt sushi" concept​It's no secret that we love sushi. However, we also love something else -- and we love it even more than we love sushi. We love money. To paraphrase Adam Sandler, we're a big fan of money. We like it, we use it, we have a little. We ... More >>

Kitchen Recreations: Spanglish Sandwich

Actual sandwich from the movie.​If you've seen the movie Spanglish -- a mediocre 2004 film starring Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni and Paz Vega -- you surely remember The Sandwich. In the flick, Adam Sandler plays a critically acclaimed chef. One evening he makes an inspired sandwich that has engrain ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Pop Rocks: Believe It Or Not, There Are Worse Ideas Than Kim Kardashian As Lara Croft

I can't wait to hear her English accent.​It's been a rough week: we found out the BP oil spill may spread across the Atlantic Ocean and threaten England's blessed shores (which, let's admit it, would be pretty hilarious) and dealt with the campaign in Afghanistan supplanting Vietnam as America ... More >>

Grown Ups: Win Free Preview Passes, And Revel In Adam Sandler's Five Best Cameos

"Are you too good for your home, ball?"​Grown Ups, as anyone who's watched any of the NBA Finals can yell you, stars Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade.That is all you need to know. You will either like this movie, perhaps love it, or you will not go to see it even if by watchin ... More >>

The Axiston of Evil

Together at last...​If it's a month with an "r" in it, there must be another Jennifer Aniston movie coming out. Sure enough, the airwaves are littered with commercials for her latest, Just Go With It, and she's dutifully hitting the talk show circuit (Ellen, Conan) and also making the rounds o ... More >>

And Now, the Least Anticipated Movies of Fall/Winter 2011

​Pop Rocks will return Thursday. The fall/winter movie season kicked off last weekend as Contagion dominated the box office (the highly touted Warrior, not so much). I've already covered, in some depth, those releases coming up in the remainder of 2011 that might merit a closer look. We learn ... More >>

Bye Bye, Black Eyed Peas. And Take _____________ With You

We'll always have...whatever that was.​I suppose "taking a break" before that Super Bowl performance was too much to ask: The Black Eyed Peas have denied rumors that they are breaking up but say they are taking a break from making music together for a while. "We are not breaking up," band ... More >>

Pop Rocks: How Do You React To The Proposed Grown Ups Sequel? With Animated Gifs.

​It's a busy time of year for movie critic types. Many of us are butting up against deadlines for award nominations, watching lots of year-end screeners of some pretty memorable films by the likes of Terence Malick, Steve McQueen, and Lynne Ramsay, among others. But everyone needs a palate cl ... More >>

Pop Rocks: And Now, Your Worst Movies of 2011

​As 2011 draws to a close, the natural tendency is to reflect on events of the past 12 months. Did we accomplish everything we'd hoped? Did we end the year in a better place than we started? Did that terrifying rash all over our genitalia clear up on its own, or should we finally see a doctor? ... More >>